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• 2014.03.28

  CMEC'ers return from Sierra Leone

  A team of five; Kasper Thorup, Mathilde Lerche-Jørgensen, Lykke Pedersen, Lyndsey Samantha Craft an…

• 2014.03.26

  Benjamin Blonder named Champion of Change by the White House.

  Benjamin Blonder named Champion of Change for his Sky School - a program that aims to give…

• 2014.03.25

  Danish Little Owls threatened by lack of food

  The Danish Little Owls lack food during the breeding season, and it threatens the survival of the…

• 2014.03.25

  Student discovers three new species for Denmark

  More than 100 different species of lichens, three of which never before seen in Denmark, were found…

• 2014.03.25

  Last wild Sumatran Rhinoceros of Malaysia rescued

  PhD student Rasmus Havmøller from CMEC has participated in efforts to save the last wild rhino in…

• 2014.03.24

  Shotgun microbial profiling of fossil remains

  In a study entitled “Shotgun Microbial Profiling of Fossil Remains” and published in Molecular…

• 2014.03.17

  A Sleeping Giant Awakens

  Arctic warming has now reached the northernmost regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet. By far the…

• 2014.03.13

  CMEC participates in science cruise

  Professor Katherine Richardson and Dr. Erik Askov Mousing participates in the DTU Aqua led science…

• 2014.03.03

  On the cover of Genome Research

  GeoGenetics recently released the first ancient epigenome. The study, available online since last…

• 2014.02.25

  Low-paid job offer is the most effective weapon against poaching

  The prospect of one day's pay of 15 kr (approximately 3 USD) is more effective to get African…

• 2014.02.24

  Scientists unlock a 'microbial Pompeii'

  Fossilized dental plaque on the teeth of a middle-aged man from the Medieval site of Dalheim,…

• 2014.02.12

  America's only Clovis skeleton had its genome mapped

  They lived in America about 13,000 years ago where they hunted mammoth, mastodons and giant bison…

• 2014.02.12

  50 priorities for palaeoecology

  An international group of palaeo experts, including David Nogués-Bravo from CMEC, have used a new…

• 2014.02.11

  Kasper Thorup receives grant

  Kasper Thorup was awarded the DFF: Sapere Aude - Starting Grant for his MATCH project at the…

• 2014.02.05

  A "smoking gun" on the Ice Age megafauna extinctions

  It was climate that killed many of the large mammals after the latest Ice Age. But what more…

• 2014.01.30

  CMEC'ers return from Brazil

  David Nogués-Bravo, Carsten Rahbek and Kostantinos Giampudakis lead the workshop “Brainstorming on…

• 2014.01.26

  Blue eyes and dark skin, thats how the European hunter-gatherer looked like 7,000 years ago

  A 7,000 years old individual from the Mesolithic Period, whose remains were recovered at La…

• 2014.01.22

  Climate change research is globally skewed

  The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries - those that pollute the…

• 2014.01.22

  The position as secretary/PA has been filled

  Line Lund Hansen has joined the administrative team at CMEC. She will provide administrative suppor…

• 2014.01.09

  Cuckoos' migration pattern mapped

  How birds find their way on the migration route is one of the big questions in science. The…

• 2014.01.06

  CMECers return from Indonesia

  Jonathan Kennedy and Andrew Reeve has returned after a two month successful field expedition to…

• 2014.01.03

  CGG highlighted in Science and Nature 2013

  Two ancient genomes generated at the Centre for GeoGenetics have been highlighted in Nature and…

• 2014.01.02

  Welcoming new faces

  Nathan Sanders and Aimeé Classen University of Tennessee are hired as Full Professor in Macroecolog…

• 2013.12.30

  PhD defence by Maren Moltke Lyngsgaard

  January 10th on: Vertical distribution of pelagic photosynthesis

• 2013.12.13

  Snail fever expected to decline in Africa due to climate change

  The explanation is that the parasite’s host snails stand to lose suitable habitat due to climate…

• 2013.12.09

  Toward ancient epigenomes

  In 2010, the DNA molecules preserved in a 4,000 year-old tuft of hair found in Greenland’s…

• 2013.11.25

  PhD defence by Erik Mousing

  December 12th on: Macroecological patterns in the distribution of marine phytoplankton – patterns…

• 2013.11.25

  PhD defence by Jonas Geldmann

  On December 9th: Evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas for maintaining biodiversity,…

• 2013.11.20

  Ancient Siberian genome reveals genetic origins of Native Americans

  The genome sequence of a 24,000-year-old Siberian individual has provided a key piece of the puzzle…

• 2013.11.18

  Bacteria recycle broken DNA

  Researchers from Denmark and Norway have now shown that bacteria can take up small as well as large…

• 2013.11.15

  PhD defence by Soladoye Iwajomo

  today in Aud. C, Øster Voldgade 10. Titel: Palearctic-African Bird Migration

• 2013.11.14

  GeoGenetics nominated for videnskab.dk's Årets Danske Forskningsresultat 2013 (Danish Research Result 2013).

  Out of 56 research projects CGG has been nominated with 9 other projects for videnskab.dk’s ‘Årets…

• 2013.11.04

  Making use of the 1 %

  Extracting DNA from samples which have been preserved in e.g. permafrost is usually no big feat.…

• 2013.11.04

  Elephant painted by Rembrandt designated the type specimen for its species

  Scientific sleuthing by researchers uncovers an elephant painted by the Dutch artist as the type…

• 2013.11.01

  CMEC is on center retreat 2013

  30 researchers are participating in CMECs 4th annual center retreat 4.- 8. November 2013.

• 2013.10.30

  Ligation Bias in Illumina Next-Generation DNA Libraries: Implications for Sequencing Ancient Genomes

  New paper in PLoS ONE. Second-generation sequencing platforms have revolutionized the field of…

• 2013.10.28

  Estimating Individual Admixture Proportions from Next Generation Sequencing Data.

  New paper in Genetics. Inference of population structure and individual ancestry is important for…

• 2013.10.28

  Calculation of Tajima's D and other neutrality test statistics from low depth next-generation sequencing data

  New paper in Bioinformatics. A number of different statistics are used for detecting natural…

• 2013.10.10

  John-Arvid Grytnes is visiting CMEC

  He will be at CMEC today and tomorrow. He has worked extensively on elevational gradients of specie…

• 2013.10.02

  CMEC has been extended by the Danish National Research Foundation

  CMEC has been extended for another five years (2015-2019) by the Danish National Research Foundatio…

• 2013.10.02

  CGG gets five more years.

  The Danish National Research Foundation has offered Centre for GeoGenetics funding for another five…

• 2013.09.30

  Shaopeng Wang is visiting CMEC

  from 1st to 4th October. He gives a seminar Thursday 3rd Oct. at 11.00 abouat "Neutral theory and…

• 2013.09.30

  PhD defense: Marie-Louise Kampmann

  Title Molecular techniques for the characterisation of pathogens: target enrichment, second…

• 2013.09.30

  PhD defense: Julia Vilstrup Mouatt

  Title Illuminating the evolution of equids and rodents with next-generation sequencing of ancient…

• 2013.09.23

  Gilles Guillot, new visiting associate professor

  Gilles is a statistician and received a master degree in geostatistics in Paris and a PhD in…

• 2013.09.20

  New rat genus discovered

  A new genus of rat which has been discovered in Indonesia. The international team of zoologists was…

• 2013.09.16

  And the award goes to...

  CMEC M.Sc. Student Lykke Pedersen for best oral presentation at the 9th conference of the European…

• 2013.09.05

  Discovery of a divergent HPIV4 from respiratory secretions using second and third generation metagenomic sequencing

  Article by CGG researchers in Nature's Scientific Reports.

• 2013.09.04

  Camilla Kleis has started as a new project administrator

  She will be working in the Aage V. Jensen Foundation group at CMEC, which is lead by Anders Tøttrup…

• 2013.09.03

  Sen Li has started as bioinformatician in CMEC

  He completed his Ph.D in Evolutionary Genetics at Dept. of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University…

• 2013.08.25

  Many collaborators visiting CMEC for the Alumni week

  including Robert Colwell, Catherine Graham and Nathan Sanders together with several former CMEC…

• 2013.08.22

  Damien Fordham is visiting CMEC

  for two weeks from August 26th. He will be giving af seminar August 30th: Extinction risk and…

• 2013.08.21

  Leticia Ochoa starts as PostDoc in CMEC

  26. August she begins her research on relationship between overall diversity patterns of life…

• 2013.08.21

  A new multigenerational partnership will guide ecology into the next 100 years

  Peter Søgaard Jørgensen from CMEC is the founder of INNGE a new partnership for the next generation…

• 2013.08.19

  Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte new PostDoc at CMEC

  He started 1. August and will research into the diversity patterns of arthropods in the Eastern Arc…

• 2013.08.19

  Ancient DNA rejects the Phoenicians as the first to introduce donkeys into the Iberian Peninsula

  Researchers from the Orlando Group and colleagues in Portugal and France have combined…

• 2013.08.14

  Martha Groom is visiting CMEC for four months

  She is exploring possible collaborations within avian conservation as well as landscape scale…

• 2013.08.07

  Miguel Matias is visiting CMEC

  Postdoc Miguel Matias from University of Evora is visiting CMEC until August 14th. He is working on…

• 2013.08.07

  Alejandro Rozenfeld is visiting CMEC

  He is from from University of Evora and staying until August 17th, collaborating with CMEC…

• 2013.08.07

  Miguel Araújo is back at CMEC

  He is staying for a month.

• 2013.08.06

  Benjamin Blonder is visiting CMEC

  He will be staying for ten weeks working on community assembly of New World plant communities.

• 2013.07.21

  Current efforts will not save the world's most endangered cat

  The Iberian lynx is likely to go extinct within 50 years because the current management plans do no…

• 2013.07.08

  Two new Visiting Professors at CGG

  With Marta Mirazón Lahr and Robert Foley from University of Cambridge as new Visiting Professors th…

• 2013.07.01

  CMEC has moved to the Natural History Museum of Denmark

  The move follows a long-standing collaboration between CMEC and the museum focusing on biodiversity…

• 2013.06.28

  CMEC PhD student to join Asian Rhino Specialist Group

  PhD student Rasmus Gren Havmøller will be the youngest and only Danish member of the specialist…

• 2013.06.26

  A 700.000 year old horse gets its genome sequenced

  Scientists at the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of…

• 2013.06.21

  Think bigger, GBIF award winner urges biologists

  Miguel Bastos Araújo has just been awarded the Ebbe Nielsen Prize from the Global Biodiversity…

• 2013.06.11

  CMEC has had a site-visit by an international evaluation panel

  The center had a site-visit by an international evaluation panel the 10th of June 2013

• 2013.06.07

  CMEC researcher will follow migratory birds from space

  Associate professor Kasper Thorup has just been awarded one of the prestigious Sapere Aude grants…

• 2013.05.16

  PhD defense Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen

  Title: Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet over multiple timescales. Time: Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at…

• 2013.05.10

  CMEC is visited by Katerina Tvardikova

  a field ornithologist working on insectivorous birds

• 2013.05.01

  Thomas Matthews visits CMEC

  the last two weeks of April. He works on the effect of forest fragmentation on bird communities

• 2013.04.25

  mapDamage2.0: Fast approximate Bayesian estimates of ancient DNA damage parameters

  Researchers from the Orlando group now release an updated version of their software mapDamage, two…

• 2013.04.18

  A fresh start for Danish nature and agriculture

  The Danish Commission on Nature and Agriculture has just released its report.

• 2013.04.11

  They swam north to survive

  Many of the large land mammals, such as mammoths and woolly rhinos, didn’t survive the last ice-age…

• 2013.04.04

  PhD defense: Sandra Cathrine Abel Nielsen

  Title: Zoonotic viral diseases and virus discovery. Time: Friday, 12. April 2013 at 13:15. Place:…

• 2013.04.03

  Carsten Rahbek in 'Meet the Science'

  The geographical distribution of Earth's 30 million species form global patterns of diversity. But…

• 2013.03.25

  PhD defense: Søren Overballe-Petersen

  Title: Natural transformation of bacteria by fragmented, damaged and ancient DNA. Time: Friday, 5…

• 2013.03.21

  Inauguration lecture: Kurt Kjær

  Iceland, Siberia and North Greenland are some of the places which have put to the patina on the…

• 2013.03.20

  Monster from the deep hits the surface

  The giant squid is one of the most enigmatic animals on the planet. It is extremely rarely seen,…

• 2013.03.13

  Volunteer divers benefit marine research

  Many volunteer SCUBA divers collect data on the marine environment every year. Now research shows…

• 2013.03.04

  The evolutionary relationship between horses and their extinct and closest living relatives

  Researchers from CGG have characterized the full mitochondrial genome variation of all contemporary…

• 2013.02.07

  David Nogués-Bravo receives Sapere Aude grant today

  The CMEC associate professor will recieve a research grant for six million DKK from the Danish…

• 2013.02.01

  Rock pigeon genome sequenced

  New report in Science: The genome of the rock pigeon has been sequenced by researchers from…

• 2013.01.23

  The Genomic History of Denmark.

  The centre has received a 36 mill. DKK grant from Univ. of Copenhagen's dedicated 2016-program.…

• 2013.01.21

  A UNESCO-l'Oreal grant 'For Women in Science' to Eline Lorenzen

  Dr. Lorenzen receives the grant for her research in the sequencing of pre-historic polar bear…

• 2013.01.21

  Big grant for young researcher to uncover the history of species communities

  Life on Earth is organized into different animal and plant communities, but how this organization…

• 2013.01.21

  Prominent research prize to macroecologist

  Professor Carsten Rahbek from Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen, receives this…

• 2013.01.16

  Prestigious Sapere Aude grant to Morten Rasmussen

  The young GeoGenetics researcher has received a Sapere Aude – DFF Research Talent grant from the…

• 2013.01.14

  Professor Carsten Rahbek appointed President-elect

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

• 2012.12.20

  Wallace's century-old map of natural world updated

  Until today, Alfred Russel Wallace's century old map from 1876 has been the backbone for our…

• 2012.12.19

  GeoGenetics' researcher Morten Allentoft is featured among ABC's 2012's top science stories.

  On Australian Broadcasting Cooperation's "2012's top science stories" Dr Morten Allentoft's researc…

• 2012.12.19

  Common house plant threatened by climate change

  The purple flower African violet is a popular house plant in most of the world. Scientists from the…

• 2012.12.06

  Drought in the Horn of Africa delays migrating birds

  The drought last year in the Horn of Africa caused the extremely late arrival into northern Europe…

• 2012.11.21

  5.689.313 DKK for new project 'Greenland Ice Sheet over the Past Millennium (X_centuries)'

  The funds come from the Danish Council for Independant Research - Natural Sciences and goes to…

• 2012.11.19

  Professor Jon Fjeldså receives Royal Order of Chivalry

  CMEC Professor Jon Fjeldså has been awarded The Order of Dannebrog. Jon Fjeldså is famous for his…

• 2012.11.15

  GeoGenetics research project nominated for videnskab.dk award

  First author Philip F. Thomsen and co-authors Jos Kielgast, Lars L. Iversen, Carsten Wiuf, Morten…

• 2012.11.13

  Panu Halme is visiting CMEC

  from 12th to 24th November to finalize one project with CMEC and start up another

• 2012.11.12

  CMEC is back after its center retreat

  30 CMEC researchers have just returned after a week in the Greek mountains.

• 2012.10.17

  Two positions available at CMEC

  A PhD scholarship in Phylogeography, Extinctions and Global Climate Change and a position as a…