Morten Tange Olsen
Assistant professor
Section for Evolutionary Genomics
Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 København K
The Marine Mammal Group seeks to document and understand effects of environmental change, pathogens, and human activities on marine mammals, using ancient, environmental and modern DNA analyses, museum collections and observations in the wild
We teach Marine Mammal Biology and Research, Molecular Ecology, Arctic Biology, and Danish Vertebrate Zoology, and are always looking for new Postdocs, PhDs, MScs and BScs student to join our group.
Current research
Main research areas
Marine mammal ecology and evolution
Environmental change, pathogens and human interactions
Applied molecular ecology
Postdocs
Jacob Roved - Pinniped immune gene diversity
PhD students
Xenia Weber - Prehistoric population structure and human utilisation of Atlantic walrus
Maiken Hemme Bro-Jørgensen - Colonisation and extinction of harp seals in the Baltic
Iben Stokholm - Zoonotic diseases in marine mammals
Dóra Székely - eDNA for marine mammal monitoring
Morgan McCarthy - Beaked whale phylogenomics
Magie Aiken - Exploitation and phylogenomics of Black Sea cetaceans
Emily Ruiz - Walrus exploitation and genetic diversity
MSc students
Stefanie Nielsen - Bearded seal genomics
Ida-Marie Mollerup - eDNA and trophic interactions in Disko Bay
BSc students
Sarah Saboia - Baltic Sea cetacean zooarchaeology
Teaching
Marine Mammal Biology and Research (lecturer and course manager) https://kurser.ku.dk/course/NNMB15001U
Molecular Ecology (lecturer and co-manager)
Danmarks Fauna (guest lecturer)
Basic Arctic Biology (guest lecturer)
Arctic Field Course (guest lecturer)
Forensic Geobiology (guest lecturer)
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Global distribution of Chelonid fibropapilloma-associated herpesvirus among clinically healthy sea turtles
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Control control control: a reassessment and comparison of GenBank and chromatogram mtDNA sequence variation in Baltic grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)
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Genetic population structure of harbour seals in the United Kingdom and neighbouring waters
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