Mikkel Winther Pedersen

Mikkel Winther Pedersen

Tenure Track Assistant Professor


  1. Published

    137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

    Damgaard, P. D. B., Marchi, N., Rasmussen, S., Peyrot, M., Renaud, G., Korneliussen, T. S., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Pedersen, M. W., Goldberg, A., Usmanova, E., Baimukhanov, N., Loman, V., Hedeager, L., Pedersen, A. G., Nielsen, K., Afanasievl, G., Akmatov, K., Aldashev, A., Alpaslan, A., Baimbetov, G. & 55 others, Bazaliiskii, V. I., Beisenov, A., Boldbaatar, B., Boldgiv, B., Dorzhu, C., Ellingvag, S., Erdenebaatar, D., Dajani, R., Dmitriev, E., Evdokimov, V., Frei, K. M., Gromov, A., Goryachev, A., Hakonarson, H., Hegay, T., Khachatryan, Z., Khaskhanov, R., Kitov', E., Kolbina, A., Kubatbek, T., Kukushkin, A., Kukushkin, I., Lau, N., Margaryan, Ashot, Merkyte, Inga, Mertz, I. V., Mertz, V. K., Mijiddorj, E., Moiyesev, V., Mukhtarova, G., Nurmukhanbetov, B., Orozbekova, Z., Panyushkina, I., Pieta, K., Smrčka, V., Shevnina, I., Logvin, A., Sjögren, K., Štolcová, T., Tashbaeva, K., Tkachev, A., Tulegenov, T., Voyakin, D., Yepiskoposyan, L., Undrakhbold, S., Varfolomeev, V., Weber, A., Kradin, N., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Orlando, L. A. A., Nielsen, Rasmus, Sikora, Martin, Heyer, E., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Nature. 557, 7705, p. 369-374 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    ngsLCA — A toolkit for fast and flexible lowest common ancestor inference and taxonomic profiling of metagenomic data

    Wang, Yucheng, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Holman, Luke Earl, Manica, A. & Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, 2022, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13, 12, p. 2699-2708 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

    Kjær, K. H., Pedersen, M. W., De Sanctis, B., De Cahsan, B., Korneliussen, T. S., Michelsen, C. S., Sand, K. K., Jelavić, S., Ruter, A. H., Schmidt, A. M. A., Kjeldsen, K. K., Tesakov, A. S., Snowball, I., Gosse, J. C., Alsos, I. G., Wang, Y., Dockter, C., Rasmussen, M., Jørgensen, M. E., Skadhauge, B. & 19 others, Prohaska, Ana, Kristensen, J. Å., Bjerager, M., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Coissac, E., Rouillard, Alexandra, Simakova, A., Fernandez Guerra, Antonio, Bowler, C., Macias-Fauria, M., Vinner, Lasse, Welch, J. J., Hidy, A. J., Sikora, Martin, Collins, Matthew James, Durbin, R., Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Willerslev, Eske & PhyloNorway Consortium, P. C., 2022, In: Nature. 612, 7939, p. 283-291 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch

    Jensen, T. Z. T., Niemann, J., Iversen, K. H., Fotakis, A. K., Gopalakrishnan, S., Vågene, Å. J., Pedersen, M. W., Sinding, M-H. S., Ellegaard, M. R., Allentoft, M. E., Lanigan, L. T., Taurozzi, A. J., Nielsen, S. H., Dee, M. W., Mortensen, M. N., Christensen, M. C., Sørensen, S. A., Collins, M. J., Gilbert, M. T. P., Sikora, M. & 2 others, Rasmussen, Simon & Schroeder, Hannes, 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 10 p., 5520.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    A comparative study of ancient environmental DNA to pollen and macrofossils from lake sediments reveals taxonomic overlap and additional plant taxa

    Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Ginolhac, A., Orlando, L. A. A., Olsen, J., Andersen, K., Holm, J. M., Funder, Svend Visby, Willerslev, Eske & Kjær, Kurt H., 1 Sep 2013, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 75, p. 161-168 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    A theoretical analysis of taxonomic binning accuracy

    De Sanctis, B., Money, D., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther & Durbin, R., 2022, In: Molecular Ecology Resources. 22, 6, p. 2208-2219 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Ancient Biomolecules and Evolutionary Inference

    Cappellini, Enrico, Prohaska, Ana, Racimo, Fernando, Welker, Frido, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Damgaard, P. D. B., Gutenbrunner, P., Dunne, J., Hammann, S., Roffet-Salque, M., Ilardo, M., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Wang, Yucheng, Sikora, Martin, Vinner, Lasse, Cox, J., Evershed, R. P. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Annual Review of Biochemistry. 87, 32 p., 36.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Ancient Human Genomes and Environmental DNA from the Cement Attaching 2,000-Year-Old Head Lice Nits

    Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Antunes, C., Westbury, Binia De Cahsan, Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Sikora, Martin, Vinner, Lasse, Mann, D., Klimov, P. B., Black, S., Michieli, C. T., Braig, H. R. & Perotti, M. A., 2022, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39, 2, 16 p., msab351.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Ancient Plant Genomics in Archaeology, Herbaria, and the Environment

    Kistler, L., Bieker, V. C., Martin, M. D., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Ramos Madrigal, Jazmin & Wales, N., 2020, In: Annual Review of Plant Biology. 71, p. 605-629 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewpeer-review

  10. Published

    Ancient and modern environmental DNA

    Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Overballe-Petersen, S., Ermini, L., Der Sarkissian, C., Haile, James Seymour, Hellström, A. M., Spens, J., Thomsen, P. F., Bohmann, Kristine, Cappellini, Enrico, Schnell, I. B., Wales, N., Carøe, C., Campos, P., Schmidt, A. M. Z., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Hansen, Anders Johannes, Orlando, L. A. A. & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370, 1660, 11 p., 20130383.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewpeer-review

  11. Published

    Ancient plant DNA in lake sediments

    Parducci, L., Bennett, K. D., Ficetola, G. F., Alsos, I. G., Suyama, Y., Wood, J. R. & Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, May 2017, In: New Phytologist. 214, 3, p. 924-942 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewpeer-review

  12. Archaeal community changes in Lateglacial lake sediments: Evidence from ancient DNA

    Ahmed, E., Parducci, L., Unneberg, P., Ågren, R., Schenk, F., Rattray, J. E., Han, L., Muschitiello, F., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Smittenberg, R. H., Yamoah, K. A., Slotte, T. & Wohlfarth, B., 2018, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 181, p. 19-29 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Chiquihuite Cave and America's Hidden Limestone Industries: A Reply to Chatters et al.

    Ardelean, C. F., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J-L., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Gandy, D. A., Sikora, M., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Huerta-Arellano, V., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rubio-Cisneros, I. I., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortíz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vázquez, J., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Rivera-González, I., Navarro-Gutiérrez, Z., López-Jiménez, A., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B. & 2 others, Martínez-Riojas, L. M. & Willerslev, Eske, 2022, In: PaleoAmerica. 8, 1, p. 17-28

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

  14. Published

    Community assembly processes underlying the temporal dynamics of glacial stream and lake bacterial communities

    Gu, Z., Liu, K., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Wang, F., Chen, Y., Zeng, C. & Liu, Y., 2021, In: Science of the Total Environment. 761, 11 p., 143178.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago

    Seersholm, Frederik Valeur, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Søe, M. J., Shokry, H., Mak, Sarah Siu Tze, Ruter, Anthony Henry, Raghavan, M., Fitzhugh, W., Kjær, Kurt H., Willerslev, Eske, Meldgaard, Morten, Kapel, Christian & Hansen, Anders Johannes, 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 9 p., 13389.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published
  17. Published

    Environmental genomics of Late Pleistocene black bears and giant short-faced bears

    Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, De Sanctis, B., Saremi, N. F., Sikora, Martin, Puckett, E. E., Gu, Z., Moon, K. L., Kapp, J. D., Vinner, Lasse, Vardanyan, Z., Ardelean, C. F., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Cahill, J. A., Heintzman, P. D., Zazula, G., MacPhee, R. D. E., Shapiro, B., Durbin, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2021, In: Current Biology. 31, 12, p. 2728-2736.e8 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum

    Ardelean, C. F., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Pedersen, M. W., Schwenninger, J. L., Oviatt, C. G., Macías-Quintero, J. I., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Sikora, M., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Rubio-Cisneros, I. I., Watling, J. G., de Medeiros, V. B., De Oliveira, P. E., Barba-Pingarón, L., Ortiz-Butrón, A., Blancas-Vázquez, J., Rivera-González, I., Solís-Rosales, C., Rodríguez-Ceja, M., Gandy, D. A. & 8 others, Navarro-Gutierrez, Z., De La Rosa-Díaz, J. J., Huerta-Arellano, V., Marroquín-Fernández, M. B., Martínez-Riojas, L. M., López-Jiménez, A., Higham, T. & Willerslev, Eske, 6 Aug 2020, In: Nature. 584, 7819, p. 87-92 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Food recourses of the Khog Gzung site on the Tibetan Plateau revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA

    Gu, Z., Gao, Y., Wang, Y., Yang, J., Ran, J., Yang, X., Shargan, W., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Sheng, G., Wang, Yucheng & Chen, F., 2023, In: Science China Earth Sciences. 66, 4, p. 840-851 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave (Sicily, Italy)

    Scorrano, Gabriele, Nielsen, Sofie Holtsmark, Vetro, D. L., Sawafuji, R., Mackie, Meaghan, Margaryan, Ashot, Fotaki, Anna Katerina, Martínez-Labarga, C., Fabbri, P. F., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Carra, M., Martini, F., Rickards, O., Olsen, Jesper Velgaard, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Cappellini, Enrico & Sikora, Martin, 2022, In: Communications Biology. 5

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations

    Capo, E., Giguet-Covex, C., Rouillard, A., Nota, K., Heintzman, P. D., Vuillemin, A., Ariztegui, D., Arnaud, F., Belle, S., Bertilsson, S., Bigler, C., Bindler, R., Brown, A. G., Clarke, C. L., Crump, S. E., Debroas, D., Englund, G., Ficetola, G. F., Garner, R. E., Gauthier, J. & 30 others, Gregory-Eaves, I., Heinecke, L., Herzschuh, U., Ibrahim, A., Kisand, V., Kjær, Kurt H., Lammers, Y., Littlefair, J., Messager, E., Monchamp, M., Olajos, F., Orsi, W., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Rijal, D. P., Rydberg, J., Spanbauer, T., Stoof-Leichsenring, K. R., Taberlet, P., Talas, L., Thomas, C., Walsh, D. A., Wang, Yucheng, Willerslev, Eske, van Woerkom, A., Zimmermann, H. H., Coolen, M. J. L., Epp, L. S., Domaizon, I., Alsos, I. G. & Parducci, L., 2021, In: Quaternary. 4, 1, 58 p., 6.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewpeer-review

  22. Published

    Late Pleistocene Faunal Assemblages from Karst Cave Settings on Northern Vancouver Island, Canada

    McLaren, D., Wigen, R., Fedje, D., Dyck, A., Hebda, C. F. G., Morien, E., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Willerslev, Eske, Rutledge, L. Y., Barrera, M. A., Stafford, J., Wall, D. & Letham, B., 2023, In: PaleoAmerica. 9, 3, p. 216-236 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and a possible glacial refugium on northern Vancouver Island, Canada: Evidence for the viability of early human settlement on the northwest coast of North America

    Hebda, C. F. G., McLaren, D., Mackie, Q., Fedje, D., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Willerslev, Eske, Brown, K. J. & Hebda, R. J., 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 279, 21 p., 107388.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics: [+ Correction]

    Wang, Y., Pedersen, M. W., Alsos, I. G., De Sanctis, B., Racimo, F., Prohaska, A., Coissac, E., Owens, H. L., Merkel, M. K. F., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Rouillard, A., Lammers, Y., Alberti, A., Denoeud, F., Money, D., Ruter, A. H., McColl, H., Larsen, N. K., Cherezova, A. A., Edwards, M. E. & 30 others, Fedorov, G. B., Haile, James Seymour, Orlando, L., Vinner, Lasse, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Beilman, D. W., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Cao, Jialu, Dockter, C., Esdale, J., Gusarova, G., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Mangerud, J., Rasic, J. T., Skadhauge, B., Svendsen, J. I., Tikhonov, A., Wincker, P., Xing, Y., Zhang, Y., Froese, D. G., Rahbek, Carsten, Nogues, David Bravo, Holden, P. B., Edwards, N. R., Durbin, R., Meltzer, D. J., Kjær, Kurt H., Möller, P. & Willerslev, Eske, 2021, In: Nature. 600, 7887, p. 86–92 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Paleo-Environmental Reconstruction Using Ancient DNA

    Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, 2016, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. 288 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

  26. Published

    Past impact of warming on the Greenland Ice Sheet - second field season

    Larsen, N. K., Kjær, Kurt H., Bjørk, Anders Anker, Funder, Svend Visby, Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Korsgaard, N. J., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Willerslev, Eske, Hansen, Eric Steen & Mikkelsen, N., 2010, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat - Årsbok / Yearbook 2009: Polarforskningssekretariatet Årsbok 2009. Rickberg, S. (ed.). Polarforskningssekretariatet, p. 40-42 3 p. (Polarforskningssekretariatets årsbok, Vol. 2009).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterCommunication

  27. Published

    Perspectives and Future Developments Within Sedimentary DNA Research

    Holman, Luke Earl, Wang, Yi, Sawafuji, Rikai, Epp, L. S., Bohmann, Kristine & Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, 2023, Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Sedimentary DNA. Capo, E., Barouillet, C. & Smol, J. P. (eds.). Springer, Vol. 6. p. 393-416 (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, Vol. 21).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Planktonic foraminifera-derived environmental DNA extracted from abyssal sediments preserves patterns of plankton macroecology

    Morard, R., Lejzerowicz, F., Darling, K. F., Lecroq-Bennet, B., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Orlando, L. A. A., Pawlowski, J., Mulitza, S., de Vargas, C. & Kucera, M., 6 Jun 2017, In: Biogeosciences. 14, 11, p. 2741-2754 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Population characteristics of a large whale shark aggregation inferred from seawater environmental DNA

    Sigsgaard, E. E., Nielsen, Ida Broman, Bach, S. S., Lorenzen, Eline, Robinson, D. P., Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Al Jaidah, M., Orlando, L. A. A., Willerslev, Eske, Møller, Peter Rask & Thomsen, P. F., 21 Nov 2016, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1, 1, 4 p., 0004.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterpeer-review

  30. Published

    Population genomics of the Viking world: [incl. correction]

    Margaryan, A., Lawson, D. J., Sikora, M., Racimo, F., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Cassidy, L. M., Jørsboe, E., Ingason, A., Pedersen, M. W., Korneliussen, T., Wilhelmson, H., Buś, M. M., de Barros Damgaard, P., Martiniano, R., Renaud, G., Bhérer, C., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Fotakis, A. K., Allen, M. & 30 others, Allmäe, R., Molak, M., Cappellini, Enrico, Scorrano, Gabriele, McColl, Hugh, Buzhilova, A., Fox, A., Albrechtsen, Anders, Schütz, B., Skar, B., Arcini, C., Lundstrøm, I., Cheng, J., Stenderup, J., Iversen, K. H., Arge, S. V., Ellingvåg, S., Orlando, L., Pentz, P., Jessen, M. D., Pedersen, A., Jørkov, M L S, Lynnerup, Niels, Gilbert, M Thomas P, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sindbæk, S. M., Kristiansen, K., Nielsen, Rasmus, Werge, Thomas & Willerslev, Eske, 2020, In: Nature. 585, 7825, p. 390-396 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor

    Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Ruter, Anthony Henry, Schweger, C., Friebe, H., Staff, R. A., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Zepeda Mendoza, M. L., Beaudoin, A. B., Zutter, C., Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Potter, B. A., Nielsen, Rasmus, Rainville, R. A., Orlando, L. A. A., Meltzer, D. J., Kjær, Kurt H. & Willerslev, Eske, 2016, In: Nature. 537, 7618, p. 45–49 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Reply to: When did mammoths go extinct?

    Wang, Y., Prohaska, A., Dong, H., Alberti, A., Alsos, I. G., Beilman, D. W., Bjørk, A. A., Cao, J., Cherezova, A. A., Coissac, E., De Sanctis, B., Denoeud, F., Dockter, C., Durbin, R., Edwards, M. E., Edwards, N. R., Esdale, J., Fedorov, G. B., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Froese, D. G. & 32 others, Gusarova, G., Haile, James Seymour, Holden, P. B., Kjeldsen, Kristian Kjellerup, Kjær, Kurt H., Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Lammers, Y., Larsen, Nicolaj Krog, Macleod, R., Mangerud, J., McColl, Hugh, Merkel, M. K. F., Money, D., Möller, P., Nogues, David Bravo, Orlando, L., Owens, Hannah Lois, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Racimo, Fernando, Rahbek, Carsten, Rasic, J. T., Rouillard, Alexandra, Ruter, Anthony Henry, Skadhauge, B., Svendsen, J. I., Tikhonov, A., Vinner, Lasse, Wincker, P., Xing, Y., Zhang, Y., Meltzer, D. J. & Willerslev, Eske, 2022, In: Nature. 612, 7938, p. E4-E6

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

  33. Published

    Sedimentary ancient DNA from Lake Skartjørna, Svalbard: assessing the resilience of arctic flora to Holocene climate change

    Alsos, I. G., Sjögren, P., Edwards, M. E., Landvik, J. Y., Gielly, L., Forwick, M., Coissac, E., Brown, A. G., Jakobsen, L. V., Føreid, M. K. & Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, 2016, In: Holocene. 26, 4, p. 627-642 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Shotgun environmental DNA, pollen, and macrofossil analysis of lateglacial lake sediments from southern Sweden

    Parducci, L., Alsos, I. G., Unneberg, P., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Han, L., Lammers, Y., Salonen, J. S., Väliranta, M. M., Slotte, T. & Wohlfarth, B., 2019, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7, JUN, 189.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    Spatial distribution of sedimentary DNA is taxon-specific and linked to local occurrence at intra-lake scale

    Wang, Yi, Wessels, M., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther & Epp, L. S., 2023, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 4, 13 p., 172.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    euka: Robust tetrapodic and arthropodic taxa detection from modern and ancient environmental DNA using pangenomic reference graphs

    Vogel, N. A., Rubin, J. D., Swartz, M., Vlieghe, J., Sackett, P. W., Pedersen, A. G., Pedersen, Mikkel Winther & Renaud, G., 2023, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14, 11, p. 2717-2727 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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