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Senior Engineer The Arctic University Museum of Norway marie.f.merkel@uit.no +4777620794 Tromsø

Marie Føreid Merkel

Job description

Merkel is working as lab manager for the genetic laboratories at the arctic univeristy museum (Tromsø univeristy museum). 

Work areas

Laboratory work / Laboratory operation
  • Anastasia Poliakova, Matthias Lenz, Martin Melles, Grigory Fedorov, Marie Føreid Merkel, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the central part of the Kola Peninsula during the past 13.3 ka as reflected by ancient plant DNA on sediments from Lake Imandra
    Journal of Quaternary Science 23. June 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ben Pears, Sam Hudson, Andreas Lang, Lisa Snape, Chiara Bahl, Marie Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Late Holocene sedimentation and palaeoagronomy in a carbonate dry valley system using OSL, sedaDNA and geochemistry: Implications for understanding anthropogenic slope-sediment transfer in fluvial headwaters
    Geomorphology 01. December 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Lara M. Wootton, Florian C. Boucher, Charles Pouchon, Cristina Roquet, Eric Coissac, Julien Renaud et al.:
    The late rise of sky-island vegetation in the European Alps
    Nature Plants 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Youri Lammers, Pierre Robert Michel Taberlet, E. Coissac, Lucas Dane Elliott, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova et al.:
    Multiplexing PCR allows the identification of within-species genetic diversity in ancient eDNA
    Molecular Ecology Resources 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • 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
    Science Advances 28. September 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Yucheng Wang, Mikkel W. Pedersen, Inger Greve Alsos, Bianca De Sanctis, Fernando Racimo, Ana Prohaska et al.:
    Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics
    Nature 2021 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Youri Lammers, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Marie Føreid Merkel, Emma Marie Bender, Alexandra Rouillard et al.:
    Ancient sedimentary DNA shows rapid post-glacial colonisation of Iceland followed by relatively stable vegetation until the Norse settlement (Landnám) AD 870
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Per Johan E Sjøgren, Antony Brown, Ludovic Gielly, Aage Paus, Mary Elizabeth Edwards et al.:
    Last Glacial Maximum environmental conditions at Andøya, northern Norway; evidence for a northern ice-edge ecological “hotspot”
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Per Johan E Sjøgren, Antony Brown, Ludovic Gielly, Marie Føreid Merkel, Aage Paus et al.:
    Last Glacial Maximum environmental conditions at Andøya, northern Norway; evidence for a northern ice-edge ecological “hotspot”
    Quaternary Science Reviews 2020 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Sebastien Lavergne, Marie Føreid Merkel, Marti Boleda, Youri Lammers, Adriana Alberti et al.:
    The treasure vault can be opened: large-scale genome skimming works well using herbarium and silica gel dried material
    Plants 2020 DOI / ARKIV
  • Per Johan Sjøgren, Mary Elizabeth Edwards, Ludovic Gielly, Cathrine Langdon, I.W. Croudace, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Lake sedimentary DNA accurately records 20th Century introductions of exotic conifers in Scotland
    New Phytologist 2016 DOI / ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Per Johan E Sjøgren, Mary E. Edwards, Jon Y. Landvik, Ludovic Gielly, Matthias Forwick et al.:
    Sedimentary ancient DNA from Lake Skartjørna, Svalbard: Assessing the resilience of arctic flora to Holocene climate change
    The Holocene 2015 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Hugo de Boer, Aino Laila Johanna Hosia, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Katrine Kongshavn et al.:
    What’s up with the Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL)
    03. November 2025 ARKIV
  • Galina Gusarova, Hedvig Elisabeth Mjøen, Magali Corti, Frédéric Mahé, Pernille Meyer, Lilja Steinthorsdottir et al.:
    Bridging past and present: From dietary metabarcoding of large herbivores towards broad scale biodiversity analyses
    2024 ARKIV
  • Youri Lammers, Eric Coissac, Pierre Taberlet, Adriana Alberti, France Denoeud, Lucas Dane Elliott et al.:
    The PhyloNorway project: a Norwegian vascular plant genome reference set and applications.
    2023 ARKIV
  • Youri Lammers, Pierre Taberlet, Eric Coissac, Lucas Dane Elliott, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova et al.:
    Tracing species lineages through time and space using multiplexing PCRs
    2023 ARKIV
  • Yucheng Wang, Ana Prohaska, Haoran Dong, Adriana Alberti, Inger Greve Alsos, David W. Beilman et al.:
    Reply to: When did mammoths go extinct?
    Nature 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Yucheng Wang, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Inger Greve Alsos, Bianca De Sanctis, Fernando Racimo, Ana Prohaska et al.:
    Author Correction: Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics (Nature, (2021), 600, 7887, (86-92), 10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x)
    Nature 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Hugo de Boer, Aino Laila Johanna Hosia, Elisabeth Stur, Aina Mærk Aspaas et al.:
    Lessons learned from NorBOL: Opportunities and challenges building reference libraries of marine, freshwater and terrestrial biotas
    2022 ARKIV
  • Yucheng Wang, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Inger Greve Alsos, Bianca De Sanctis, Fernando Racimo, Ana Prohaska et al.:
    Author Correction: Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics (Nature, (2021), 600, 7887, (86-92), 10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x)
    Nature 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Youri Lammers, Pierre Taberlet, Eric Coissac, Lucas Dane Elliott, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova et al.:
    Multiplexing markers: Increasing the amount of data that can be obtained from a single amplification reaction
    2022 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Youri Lammers, Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman, Marie Føreid Merkel, Emma Marie Bender, Alexandra Rouillard et al.:
    Ancient sedimentary DNA shows rapid post-glacial colonization of Iceland followed by relatively stable vegetation until Landnám
    2021 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Peter D. Heintzman, Dilli Prasad Rijal, Antony Brown, Charlotte L. Clarke, Anne Elisabeth Bjune et al.:
    Ancient sedimentary DNA reveals long-term impact of climate change on northern flora
    2020 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Anne Elisabeth Bjune, Kari Anne Bråthen, Charlotte Clarke, Mary E. Edwards, Dorothee Ehrich et al.:
    The use of ancient DNA in palaeoecological studies
    2020 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Anne Elisabeth Bjune, Kari Anne Bråthen, Clark Charlotte, Mary E. Edwards, Dorothee Ehrich et al.:
    Using ancient and modern DNA to understand effect of climate change on vascular plants
    2020 ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Five years as national research infrastructure: status of the Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    2019 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Youri Lammers, Adriana Alberti, Céline Orvain et al.:
    Towards plant barcode 2.0 and its application in environmental and ancient DNA studies
    2019 ARKIV
  • Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Youri Lammers, Iva Pitelkova, Inger Greve Alsos, Adriana Alberti, C Orvain et al.:
    The key to the treasure chest — selections of herbarium specimens for DNA extraction
    2019 ARKIV
  • Sandra Garces Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Kevin Walsh, Charline Giguet-Covex, Willy Tinner, Christoph Schwörer et al.:
    Long-term plant species turnover in the Alps, inferred from sedaDNA
    2019 ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Five years as national research infrastructure: status of the Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    Genome 2019 DOI / ARKIV
  • Youri Lammers, Inger Greve Alsos, Ludovic Gielly, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Sandra Garces Pastor, Tina Jørgensen et al.:
    The importance of the reference library: discovery of unexpected species in ancient sedimentary DNA
    2019 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Per Johan E Sjøgren, Ludovic Gielly, Paus Aage, Mary E. Edwards, Melanie Lang et al.:
    The LGM ice-free Andøya island – did local favorable condition combined with distinct long-distance dispersal routes cause non-analogue vegetation?
    2017 ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Katrine Kongshavn et al.:
    The Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    2017 ARKIV
  • Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova, Youri Lammers, Eric Coissac, Adriana Alberti, Carole Dossat et al.:
    Shotgun-sequencing of plant DNA: Selection og material and methods
    2017 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Per Johan E Sjøgren, Eric Coissac, Mary E. Edwards, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Environmental DNA taphonomy: How well is the flora represented in metabarcoding data?
    2017 ARKIV
  • Youri Lammers, Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Iva Pitelkova, Adriana Alberti et al.:
    Genome skimming. What to do with all that data?
    2017 ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Progress and prospects of the Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    2017 ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Progress and prospects of the Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    Genome 2017 DOI / ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    The Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    2016 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Per Sjogren, Eric Coissac, Mary E. Edwards, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Plant DNA in sediments: to which degree do they reflect the flora?
    2016 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Per Sjogren, Eric Coissac, Mary E. Edwards, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel et al.:
    Plant DNA in sediments: to which degree do they reflect the flora?
    2016 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac, Mary E. Edwards, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Ludovic Gielly et al.:
    Plant DNA in sediments: to which degree do they reflect the flora?
    2015 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac, Mary E. Edwards, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Ludovic Gielly et al.:
    Plant DNA in sediments: to which degree do they represent the flora?
    2015 ARKIV
  • Per Johan E Sjøgren, Mary Elizabeth Edwards, Ludovic Gielly, Catherine Langdon, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Lake sedDNA as a proxy for 20th century exotic conifer afforestation and vegetation change in Scotland
    2015 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Eric Coissac, Mary E. Edwards, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Ludovic Gielly, Per Sjögren et al.:
    Plant DNA in sediments: to which degree do they represent the flora?
    Genome 2015 DOI / ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid et al.:
    The Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    Genome 2015 ARKIV
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid et al.:
    The Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    2015 ARKIV
  • Inger Greve Alsos, Jon Y. Landvik, Per Sjogren, Ludovic Gielly, Eric Coissac, Leif Vidar Jakobsen et al.:
    Holocene palaeoenvironments on west Spitsbergen, Svalbard, inferred from ancient DNA, macrofossils and lithological analyses of lake sediments
    2015 ARKIV
  • Mary E. Edwards, Inger Greve Alsos, Jon Y. Landvik, Per Sjogren, Leif Vidar Jakobsen, Matthias Forwick et al.:
    SedaDNA approaches to understanding Late-Quaternary and recent biodiversity changes – potential and problems
    2015 ARKIV
  • Per Sjogren, Mary E. Edwards, Cathrine Langdon, Ludovic Gielly, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, I.W. Croudace et al.:
    Testing the effectiveness of lacustrine DNA as a proxy using the record of exotic conifer planting in Scotland
    2015 ARKIV / FULLTEKST

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    Research interests

    Some of the projects that the reserarch groups at Tromsø univeristy museum are involved in and that are using our laboratories: 

    NorBOL: Norwegain barcode of life

    Ecogen: Ecosystems change and spceies persistence over time: a genome -based approach

    Future ArcTic Ecosystems (FATE): drivers of diversity and future scenarios from ethnoecology, contemporary ecology and ancient DNA

    Iceagent: IceAge Genomic Tracking of refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

     

    Teaching

    Taking the students through the practical laboratory work in course BIO-3025/BIO-8025


    Member of research group

    ECOGEN – Ecosystem change   Norsk innhold NEAT   English content ArcEcoGen – Arctic Ecosystem Genomics   English content