Peter Heintzman
Job description
Academic research, supervision, and curation
Sandra Garces Pastor,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Scarlett Zetter,
Youri Lammers,
Nigel Yoccoz,
Jean-Paul Theurillat
et al.:
Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity
Nature Communications 2025 DOI
John R. Stewart,
Inger Greve Alsos,
Antony Brown,
Love Dalén,
Peter D. Heintzman
:
The progressive evolution of cold-adapted species
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2025 DOI
Marianne Dehasque,
Hernán E. Morales,
David Díez-del-Molino,
Patrícia Pečnerová,
J. Camilo Chacón-Duque,
Foteini Kanellidou
et al.:
Temporal dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion prior to extinction
Roseanna J. Mayfield,
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Peter G. Langdon,
Dirk N. Karger,
Antony Gavin Brown
et al.:
Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from plant sedaDNA and chironomids from the northern boreal forest
Charlotte L. Clarke,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Youri Lammers,
Alistair J. Monteath,
Nancy H. Bigelow,
Joshua D. Reuther
et al.:
Steppe-tundra composition and deglacial floristic turnover in interior Alaska revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA)
J. Sakari Salonen,
Niina Kuosmanen,
Inger Greve Alsos,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Frederik Schenk
et al.:
Uncovering Holocene climate fluctuations and ancient conifer populations: Insights from a high-resolution multi-proxy record from Northern Finland
Scarlett Poppy Saunders Hovey Zetter,
Sandra Garces Pastor,
Youri Lammers,
Antony Gavin Brown,
Kevin Walsh,
Tomasz Goslar
et al.:
SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps
Lucas Dane Elliott,
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Antony Brown,
Jostein Bakke,
Lasse Topstad,
Peter D. Heintzman
et al.:
Sedimentary Ancient DNA Reveals Local Vegetation Changes Driven by Glacial Activity and Climate
John W. Williams,
Trisha L. Spanbauer,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Jessica Blois,
Eric Capo,
Simon J. Goring
et al.:
Strengthening global-change science by integrating aeDNA with paleoecoinformatics
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2023 DOI
Kathrin Theissinger,
Carlos Fernandes,
Giulio Formenti,
Iliana Bista,
Paul Ragnar Berg,
Christoph Bleidorn
et al.:
How genomics can help biodiversity conservation
Aloïs Nicolas Revéret,
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Antony Gavin Brown,
Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring,
Inger Greve Alsos
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Environmental DNA of aquatic macrophytes: The potential for reconstructing past and present vegetation and environments
Inger Greve Alsos,
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Dorothee Ehrich,
Dirk Nikolaus Karger,
Nigel Yoccoz,
Peter D. Heintzman
et al.:
Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia
Giulio Formenti,
Kathrin Theissinger,
Carlos Fernandes,
Iliana Bista,
Aureliano Bombarely,
Christoph Bleidorn
et al.:
The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics
Sandra Garces Pastor,
Inger Greve Alsos,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Youri Lammers,
Eric Coissac,
Sébastien Lavergne
et al.:
High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change
Tom van der Valk,
Marianne Dehasque,
J. Camilo Chacón-Duque,
Nikolay Oskolkov,
Sergey Vartanyan,
Peter D. Heintzman
et al.:
Evolutionary consequences of genomic deletions and insertions in the woolly mammoth genome
Antony Brown,
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Charlotte, L. Clarke,
Hans Peter Blankholm,
Helge Irgens Høeg
et al.:
Paleoeconomy more than demography determined prehistoric human impact in Arctic Norway
Nicolas Dussex,
Nora Bergfeldt,
Violeta de Anca Prado,
Marianne Dehasque,
David Díez-del-Molino,
Erik Ersmark
et al.:
Integrating multi-taxon palaeogenomes and sedimentary ancient DNA to study past ecosystem dynamics
Youri Lammers,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Inger Greve Alsos
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Environmental palaeogenomic reconstruction of an Ice Age algal population
James A. Fellows Yates,
Aida Andrades Valtueña,
Åshild J Vågene,
Becky Cribdon,
Irina M. Velsko,
Maxime Borry
et al.:
Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir
Tom van der Valk,
Patrícia Pečnerová,
David Díez-del-Molino,
Anders Bergström,
Jonas Oppenheimer,
Stefanie Hartmann
et al.:
Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths
Evgeny N. Maschenko,
Olga R. Potapova,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Joshua D. Kapp,
Beth Shapiro,
Albert V. Protopopov
et al.:
Morphology, Individual Age, DNA and Sex of the Yuka Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Northern Yakutia
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Youri Lammers,
Nigel Yoccoz,
Kelsey Lorberau,
Iva Pitelkova
et al.:
Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia
Alisa Vershinina,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Duane G. Froese,
Grant D. Zazula,
Molly Cassatt-Johnstone,
Love Dalén
et al.:
Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge
Mikkel W. Pedersen,
Bianca De Sanctis,
Nedda F. Saremi,
Martin Sikora,
Emily E. Puckett,
Zhenquan Gu
et al.:
Environmental genomics of Late Pleistocene black bears and giant short-faced bears
Shanlin Liu,
Michael V Westbury,
Nicolas Dussex,
Kieren J. Mitchell,
Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding,
Peter D. Heintzman
et al.:
Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family
Scarlett Zetter,
Sandra Garces Pastor,
Youri Lammers,
Andreas Tribsch,
Antony Brown,
Eric Coissac
et al.:
Holocene reconstruction of plant communities and impacts of human activity from sedaDNA in the Austrian Alps
2021
Sandra Garces Pastor,
Youri Lammers,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Antony Brown,
Willy Tinner,
Christoph Schwörer
et al.:
Exceptionally rich sedaDNA record from a subalpine lake in the Central Alps reveals plant responses to climate change and human land use
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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The hidden diversity of extinct megafauna
2021
Elise Kjørstad,
Inger Greve Alsos,
Dilli Prasad Rijal,
Peter D. Heintzman
:
Planter fortsatte å spre seg mot nord tusener av år etter klimaendringen på slutten av istiden
Youri Lammers,
Inger Greve Alsos,
Peter D. Heintzman
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Ice Age algae bloom on Andøya
Peter D. Heintzman
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Reconstructing Quaternary biomes with ancient DNA
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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Systematics, speciation, and gene flow
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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SedaDNA: where are we and where are we going?
2021
Mary Elizabeth Edwards,
Charlotte, L. Clarke,
Nancy H Bigelow,
Peter D. Heintzman,
Ben Potter,
Inger Greve Alsos
et al.:
Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics in interior Alaska revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) from lake sediment and unfrozen (loessic) archaeological sediments
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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Ancient DNA from dirt: why, where, and how?
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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Ancient DNA as a tool for paleontology
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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Sedimentary ancient DNA
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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Ancient vertebrate DNA in the environment
2021
James A. Fellows Yates,
Aida Andrades Valtueña,
Åshild J Vågene,
Becky Cribdon,
Irina M. Velsko,
Maxime Borry
et al.:
Improving access to ancient metagenomic data with the community-curated metadata repository
2021
Bianca De Sanctis,
Mikkel W. Pedersen,
Nedda F. Saremi,
Martin Sikora,
Emily E. Puckett,
Zhenquan Gu
et al.:
Environmental Genomics of Late Pleistocene Black Bears and Giant Short-Faced Bears
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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A tale of mammoths and million-year-old DNA
2021
John W. Williams,
Inger Greve Alsos,
Jessica L. Blois,
Chris Bowler,
Frederic Boyer,
Eric Capo
et al.:
Building cyberinfrastructure systems to support integrative, macroscale analyses of sedimentary ancient DNA records: current resources, needs, and opportunities
2021 FULLTEKST
Peter D. Heintzman,
Bjørn Hatteng,
Christel Slettli Hansen,
Per helge Nylund,
Håkon Dahlen
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A mammoth discovery of the world’s oldest DNA
VitenSkapet temporary exhibition 2021
Scarlett Zetter,
Andreas Tribsch,
F. D. Nardi,
Eric Coissac,
Sébastien Lavergne,
Sandra Garces Pastor
et al.:
Inferring vegetation history using DNA metabarcoding of sedaDNA of Alpine lakes in Austria
2021
Eric Capo,
Inger Greve Alsos,
Daniel Ariztegui,
Linda H. Armbrecht,
Ines Barrenechea,
Simon Belle
et al.:
Unifying the sedaDNA scientific community
2021
Peter D. Heintzman
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Mammoths and the oldest ever ancient DNA
2021
Peter D. Heintzman,
Owen Jarus
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'Female' warrior buried in medieval grave may be non-binary
06. August 2021 FULLTEKST
Peter D. Heintzman,
Ellen Kathrine Bludd
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Verdens eldste DNA funnet i tannen til mammut
01. December 2021 FULLTEKST
Peter D. Heintzman,
Ellen Kathrine Bludd
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Verdens eldste DNA gir ny innsikt i mammutens evolusjon
17. February 2021 FULLTEKST
Peter D. Heintzman,
Elise Kjørstad
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Verdens eldste DNA: Forskere har studert genomet til en million år gamle mammuter
17. February 2021 FULLTEKST
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Research interests
Dr. Heintzman uses degraded DNA to assess evolutionary and ecological questions surrounding a wide variety of different organisms (including insects, mammals, and plants). He is an expert in the application and development of ancient DNA methodologies, particularly within the emerging subfield of sedimentary ancient DNA. Using these expertise, he determined the most precisely-constrained timing of a prehistoric extinction event, for which he won the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize.
Ancient DNA, paleontology, zoology, sediments, evolution, paleoecology
Teaching
Current PhD students:
Scarlett Zetter: "Palaeoecological reconstruction of the eastern Alps using sedimentary ancient DNA." Lead supervisor, 2019 present
Invited lecturer:
MSc course in Palaeoecology, Genetics and Human Prehistory at Stockholm University, Sweden (course organizers: Love Dalén and Anders Götherström), 2018-present
PhD / MSc course in DNA Metabarcoding: Part 2 - Data processing and interpretation at the ForBio Research School in Systematics, Tromsø, Norway (course organizer: Galina Gusarova), 2018-present
Member of research group
CV
2019- Associate Professor (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)
2017-2019 Senior Researcher (Researcher II) (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)
2013-2016 Postdoc in Paleogenomics (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
2009-2013 PhD in Molecular Palaeobiology (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
2009 Honorary Researcher (University of Bristol, UK)
2007-2008 MSc in Palaeobiology (University of Bristol, UK)
2004-2007 BSc in Biology (University of Sheffield, UK)
Attachments:
- Rasmussen et al. 2014. Nature (pdf)
- Heintzman et al. 2014. Mol. Ecol. Res. (pdf)
- Ng et al. 2014. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (pdf)
- Heintzman et al. 2015a. Mol. Biol. Evol. (pdf)
- Heintzman et al. 2015b. Rev. Cell Biol. Mol. Med. (pdf)
- Heintzman et al. 2016. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (pdf)
- Graham et al. 2016. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (pdf)
- Wecek et al. 2016. Mol. Biol. Evol. (pdf)
- Froese et al. 2017. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (pdf)
- Wang et al. 2017. J. Biogeography (pdf)
- Zazula et al. 2017. Can. J. Earth Sci. (pdf)
- Kirillova et al. 2017. Quat. Res. (pdf)
- Murray, Soares et al. 2017. Science (pdf)
- Heintzman et al. 2017. eLife (pdf)
- Cahill et al. 2018. Mol. Biol. Evol. (pdf)
- Nichols et al. 2018. Mol. Ecol. Res. (pdf)