Peter Heintzman
Job description
Academic research, supervision, and curation
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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)