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

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