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• 2016.02.09

  Experts urge extreme caution on “rewilding” to save wild places

  Efforts to “rewild” the landscape have become increasingly popular, but a new paper led by the…

• 2016.02.04

  The Anthropocene – Age of Mankind

  The Anthropocene is rapidly gaining ground as our new worldview and concept for the state of our…

• 2016.02.03

  Hummingbirds provide insight into food specialisation across the Americas

  The mapping of food specialisation in hummingbird communities across the Americas, has led to a rar…

• 2016.01.21

  A predictive risk map for the nematode parasite Mansonella perstans in Uganda

  Infection with the nematode parasite Mansonella perstans is one of the most neglected of the…

• 2016.01.19

  Natalie Cooper is visiting CMEC on January 22nd

  Natalie Cooper from NHM, London, UK is visiting CMEC on the 22nd January. Natalie links macroecolog…

• 2016.01.07

  Year's end 2015

  As 2015 ended a couple of pleasant surprises for Centre for GeoGenetics appeared in the media.

• 2015.12.16

  The Greenland Ice Sheet during the 20th Century – a missing link in IPCC’s climate report

  For the very first time, climate researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History…

• 2015.12.09

  Top 10 discoveries of 2015: Tracing slave origins.

  The AIA's Archaeology Magazine has chosen research carried out by Hannes Schroeder from CGG as one…

• 2015.12.07

  Tracking Golden Eagles

  A new publicly available map makes it possible to track golden eagle juveniles born in Denmark in…

• 2015.11.26

  CMEC professors in the Danish Climate Council

  Today, the Danish government's independent Climate Council has launched its first report. Professor…

• 2015.11.23

  Adapting to -70 degrees in Siberia: a tale of Yakutian horses

  From an evolutionary perspective it happened almost overnight. In less than 800 years Yakutian…

• 2015.11.20

  The cuckoo sheds new light on the scientific mystery of bird migration

  The cuckoo is not only capable of finding its way from unknown locations; it does this through…

• 2015.11.04

  The most vulnerable countries miss out on climate change knowledge

  Collaborations on climate change research are divided into separate regions of the world with littl…

• 2015.11.02

  Bugs collected on rooftop for 18 years reveal climate change effects

  Study of insects on the roof of Zoological Museum has revealed local insect community turnover due…

• 2015.11.02

  Bugs collected on rooftop for 18 years reveal climate change effects

  Study of insects on the roof of Zoological Museum has revealed local insect community turnover due…

• 2015.10.27

  More than pony-rides

  In the 19. October issue of Current Biology, Ludovic Orlando presents why the equid family…

• 2015.10.23

  Plague Infected Humans Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

  However, it was at least another thousand years until the bacterium that causes the disease,…

• 2015.10.21

  European birdwatchers unravel how birds respond to climate change

  New details on how birds respond to climate change have been revealed by volunteer bird watchers al…

• 2015.10.07

  Rick Zentelis is visiting CMEC on October 15

  Rick Zentelis is visiting CMEC on October 15 and will give a seminar called: “Bombing for…

• 2015.10.05

  Do your master project at Centre for GeoGenetics?

  At the moment there is an opportunity to do master projects within ancient human genomics.…

• 2015.10.05

  Sally Wood is visiting CMEC

  Sally Wood, University of Bristol, is visiting CMEC on October 12 - 13th

• 2015.10.01

  Reducing costs of whole genome sequencing from the extraction stage

  Ancient DNA is often only preserved in minute amounts in archeological material such as fossilized…

• 2015.09.24

  After 100 years in captivity, a look at the world’s last truly wild horses

  In the 1870s, the world’s last truly wild horses, known as Przewalski’s horses, lived in the Asian…

• 2015.09.16

  Field expedition to Papa New Guinea

  Four researchers from CMEC are leading a field expedition to Papa New Guinea in the beginning of…

• 2015.09.08

  Copepod migrations are important for the ocean’s uptake of CO2

  Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice play a much larger role in the transport and storage of…

• 2015.09.02

  Biodiversity belowground is just as important as aboveground

  Most of the world’s biodiversity is below ground, but little is known about how it affects…

• 2015.08.20

  The Sumatran rhino is extinct in the wild in Malaysia

  The future survival of the wild Sumatran rhinos now depends entirely on the less than 100…

• 2015.08.12

  Eline Lorenzen profiled in Science's "Career profiles"

  In Science's special issue (25. July 2015) "From mammoths to Neandertals, ancient DNA unlocks the…

• 2015.07.21

  The population history of Native Americans

  There is archaeological evidence of modern humans in the Americas by approx. 15 thousand years ago…

• 2015.07.10

  New strong research bonds with Borneo

  A new joint effort of Nordic and Malaysian researchers are expected to lead to knowledge that can…

• 2015.07.06

  Reconstruction of genome-wide methylation maps

  Last year, a group of researchers at the Centre for GeoGenetics discovered that ancient epigenetic…

• 2015.06.18

  Kennewick Man: solving a scientific controversy

  When Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996 initial cranial analysis suggested that he was a…

• 2015.06.17

  Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth

  Damgaard PB, Margaryan A, Schroeder H, Orlando L, Willerslev E, Allentoft ME. Improving access to…

• 2015.06.10

  When modern Eurasia was born

  Modern European and Central Asian peoples are genetically speaking not more than a couple of…

• 2015.06.02

  B10K - Toward decoding all bird genomes

  Today (3rd June, 2015) we formally announce the launch of the Bird 10,000 genomes (B10K) project.

• 2015.06.02

  B10K - Towards decoding all bird genomes

  Today we formally announce the launch of the Bird 10,000 genomes (B10K) project, an initiative to…

• 2015.04.15

  Adrian Newton, Uni. of Bournemouth is visiting CMEC

  16.-17. April giving a seminar Thursday and a keynote on the Forest Symposium Friday

• 2015.03.18

  Ancient protein analysis solve a Darwinian mystery

  STRANGEST ANIMALS The evolutionary puzzle surrounding what Charles Darwin called the ‘strangest…

• 2015.03.09

  Poorly preserved DNA from African slaves reveals their origins

  An analysis of DNA extracted from the tooth roots of three 17th century slaves reveals that they…

• 2015.03.02

  Hector Castro visits CMEC

  Assistant Resaerch Professor at the University of Tennessee comes today and talks 3rd of March in…

• 2015.02.23

  Two CMEC researchers take part in the new Climate Council

  Among the seven members of the government's Climate Council are two professors from Center for…

• 2015.02.09

  World’s governments are failing on protected areas for nature

  A new study has found that while governments are making progress in expanding Protected Area…

• 2015.02.06

  Carlsberg funds snail-parasite microcosm-experiments

  Anna-Sofie Stensgaard, CMEC and SUND colleagues have landed 100.000 DKR from Carlsberg to start…

• 2015.02.06

  'Stupidity virus' found to be a contamination

  A paper in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) at the end…

• 2015.01.22

  Fighting fish may drive global biodiversity patterns on coral reefs

  Sally Keith from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate has received 3.9 million kroner…

• 2015.01.15

  Four of nine planetary boundaries now crossed

  Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity, says a team…

• 2015.01.12

  Petter Zahl Marki new PhD at CMEC

  in the period 2015-2017

• 2015.01.08

  Professor Carsten Rahbek appointed President

  The International Biogeography Society has appointed Professor Carsten Rahbek, director of the…

• 2015.01.05

  Wild nature on campus

  CMEC is supporting a new project on Nørre Campus, establishing four outdoor areas with native plant…

• 2014.12.17

  Press conference at AGU: Greenland melt dynamics

  Watch CGG's PhD-student Anders Bjørk at the American Geophysical Union's meeting telling about…

• 2014.12.15

  Reshaping the horse through millennia

  THE COST OF DOMESTICATION Whole genome sequencing of modern and ancient horses unveils the genes…

• 2014.12.11

  International team maps "BIG BANG" of bird evolution

  The genomes of modern birds tell a story of how they emerged and evolved after the mass extinction…

• 2014.12.11

  INTERNATIONAL TEAM MAPS "BIG BANG" OF BIRD EVOLUTION

  The genomes of modern birds tell a story of how they emerged and evolved after the mass extinction…

• 2014.12.04

  Science Gala 2014

  For the seventh time in a row, The Natural History Museum of Denmark hosted the Science Gala and…

• 2014.12.02

  Deciphering the evolutionary history of horses, asses and zebras

  Whole genome-dataset of horses, zebras, and asses unveils their evolutionary origins, revealing…

• 2014.11.27

  Ancient dental plaque: a "whey" into our milk drinking past?

  We drink milk because it is good for us, but we rarely stop to think “Why?” Archaeologists and…

• 2014.11.25

  Vultures evolved an extreme gut to cope with disgusting dietary habits

  How is it that vultures can live on a diet of carrion that would at least lead to severe…

• 2014.11.24

  European Commission honours CGG's Maanasa Raghavan

  Communicating science in a fun and attractive way, mentoring the next generation, and publishing in…

• 2014.11.21

  Dan Warren is visiting CMEC

  Dan Warren, Macquarie University, will be visiting CMEC on November 28th. He will give a Friday…

• 2014.11.06

  Ancient genomes show the European meta-populations

  DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of…

• 2014.10.31

  The Fifth CMEC center retreat

  will be carried out 3rd-7th November 2014 in Puig-Arnau Pubilló Poble Rural, Catalonia, Spain

• 2014.10.27

  Unique map of Denmark to help preserve biodiversity

  The Danish Minister for the Environment Kirsten Brosbøl has put forward "Naturplan Danmark" – the…

• 2014.10.23

  Genomic data support early contact between Easter Island and Americas

  People may have been making their way from Easter Island to the Americas well before the Dutch…

• 2014.10.23

  PhD defence by Nikolaj Sørensen

  31st of October 13:00 in August Krogh building Aud. A3. Title: Marine picoeukaryotes in cold water:…

• 2014.10.09

  PhD fellow in Ancient DNA and Evolutionary Genomics

  Applications are invited for a three-year PhD fellowship in the field of Ancient DNA and…

• 2014.10.03

  More investment needed to reach international biodiversity targets by 2020

  Despite some progress, more needs to be done to reach the internationally agreed set of biodiversit…

• 2014.09.29

  Leigh Moorhead join CMEC for a year

  She is a US National Science Foundation Grow recipient from University of Tennessee

• 2014.09.29

  Questioning the spreading of Paleolithic technologies

  The unique archaeological site of Nor Geghi 1, situated just north of Yerevan, Armenia, has provide…

• 2014.09.24

  The discovery of 27 new vertebrate species fully reveals the unmatched biodiversity in the Eastern Arc Mountains

  A new international study, by Neil Burgess of Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate amongs…

• 2014.09.22

  Mike Kaspari sabbatical guest at CMEC

  Mike is the George Lynn Cross Professor of Ecology and the Director of the EEB grad program at the…

• 2014.09.22

  Rob Dunn at sabbatical visit

  at CMEC for 4 month. Rob (North Carolina State University) studies the biodiversity all around us…

• 2014.09.19

  Nate Sanders - Inauguration Lecture

  Nate Sanders will give his professor inauguration lecture on Tuesday the 7th of October. All are…

• 2014.09.11

  Evolutionary tools improve prospects for sustainable development

  In a new Science review by the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate and the University of…

• 2014.09.10

  PhD fellow in the field of ancient and modern human genomics

  Centre of Excellence in GeoGenetics, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a…

• 2014.09.06

  Cosmic impact 12,800 years ago?

  In a recent article published in Geology Tom Stafford from CGG and colleagues discuss the evidence…

• 2014.09.02

  Economic success drives language extinction

  Thriving economies are the driving factor in the disappearances of minority languages shows a new…

• 2014.09.01

  Near-extinct African amphibians 'invisible' under climate change

  A study co-led by Dr Raquel Garcia from CMEC found that the majority of threatened species are…

• 2014.08.28

  New DNA study unravels the settlement history of the New World Arctic

  We know people have lived in the New World Arctic for about 5,000 years. Archaeological evidence…

• 2014.08.21

  Review article: Encephalitis lethargia

  In conjunction with a collaborator from the Bernard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in…

• 2014.08.18

  CMEC researchs on Human Mid-Pleistocene Revolution

  David Nogués-Bravo and Kostantinos Giampoudakis get involved in an INQUA network

• 2014.08.18

  New CMEC Phd student

  Filippo Botta starts his Phd research on Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change in Biological Diversity

• 2014.08.15

  CMEC well represented at IOC

  the 26th International Ornithological Congress (IOC) in Tokyo, August 18th-25th 2014

• 2014.08.15

  Human pressure on land is increasing shows world map

  During the past two decades, 64 % of the Earth’s land-based area has experienced an increase in…

• 2014.07.11

  Eske Willerslev adopted by the Crow tribe

  Reburial of a 12.600 year old skeleton from an ancestor to present day Native Americans led to an…

• 2014.07.01

  Postdoc in Ancient DNA and Evolutionary Genomics

  Applications are invited for a two-year postdoctoral researcher position in the field of Ancient DN…

• 2014.06.30

  Water samples teeming with information: Emerging techniques for environmental monitoring

  Setting effective conservation policies requires near real-time knowledge of environmental…

• 2014.06.26

  PhD defence by Peter Søgaard Jørgensen

  30th June, 2pm. Title: "Macroecology of Environmental Change Response".

• 2014.06.17

  CMEC alumni week 2014

  This year, the external attendants include Mohamed Adjou, Dimitar Dimitrov, Ben Holt, Raquel Garcia…

• 2014.06.16

  Danish satellite will monitor migrating birds

  On June 19th at 9:11:11 PM, a Russian rocket carrying a Danish-built satellite will be launched. It…

• 2014.06.12

  PhD defense Alonzo Alfaro-Núñez

  'Tracing the co-evolutionary history of the Chelonid fibropapilloma-associated herpesvirus and its…

• 2014.05.28

  123 scientists: Specimen collection is still needed

  Researchers from CMEC are co-authors on a letter published in Science concerning the continued need…

• 2014.05.27

  Climate warming favours light coloured insects in Europe

  Butterflies and dragonflies with a lighter shade of colour do better in warmer areas of Europe. Thi…

• 2014.05.22

  Improving the habitat for endangered forest species

  Old and rotten trees are the foundation of life to many endangered species in the Danish forests. A…

• 2014.05.09

  Genome gives clues to how polar bears rapidly evolved to cope with high-fat diet

  A comparison of the genomes of polar bears and brown bears reveals that the polar bear is a much…

• 2014.05.07

  Join the BioBlitz event in Gribskov forest

  Help us register as many species as possible within 24 hours, when the Danish Nature Agency…

• 2014.05.02

  CMEC has had its 4th site-visit by DNRF

  The Danish National Research Foundation visited CMEC at 1st of May

• 2014.05.01

  Multiple dimensions of climate change reveal unappreciated impacts on biodiversity

  Shrinking ice sheets and melting ice caps are well known consequences of climate change. But a new…

• 2014.04.25

  Characterization of ancient and modern genomes by SNP detection and phylogenomic and metagenomic analysis using PALEOMIX

  In a recent publication in Nature Protocols, researchers from the Paleomix Group led by Dr. Ludovic…

• 2014.04.24

  250,000 Danish fungi mapped in five years

  Across all parts of Denmark, more than 400 volunteers have taken part in creating the Danish…

• 2014.04.07

  Siemens grant to CGG master student

  Master student Peter de Barros Damgaard from the Eske Willerslev Group has been granted 35,000 DKK…