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Sanne Boessenkool

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Norwegian
Email sanne.boessenkool@nhm.uio.no
Phone +47 22851805
Fax +47 22851835
Room 114b, Botanical Museum
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Visiting address Sars' gate 1 Tøyen
Postal address NCB - National Centre for Biosystematics Natural History Museum University of Oslo P.O. Box 1172 Blindern NO-0318 Oslo

Special fields

My main research interests lie in the application of genetic tools, and particularly the use of prehistoric or ancient DNA, to study shifts in species and population distributions through time. I am currently working on the BarFrost project in which we study past ecosystems in the Arctic and northern boreal by identifying a wide variety of taxa from environmental ancient DNA in permafrost cores. Together with the other postdocs on this project I design barcoding regions for vertebrate and invertebrate taxa using bioinformatic tools, generate genetic data from the permafrost samples and develop reference databases for respective taxonomic groups. The data obtained will be used to reconstruct the biodiversity of past ecosystems and study spatiotemporal shifts in species distributions. Currently I am also employed to design and setup the new ancient DNA laboratory at NHM.

Publications

  • Boessenkool, Sanne; Epp, Laura; Haile, James; Bellemain, Eva; Edwards, Mary E.; Coissac, Eric; Willerslev, Eske et al. (2011). Blocking human contaminant DNA during PCR allows amplification of rare mammal species from sedimentary ancient DNA. Molecular Ecology.  ISSN 0962-1083. . doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05306.x
  • Boessenkool, Sanne; Star, Bastiaan; Scofield, R Paul; Seddon, Philip J & Waters, Jonathan M (2010). Lost in translation or deliberate falsification? Genetic analyses reveal erroneous museum data for historic penguin specimens. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.  ISSN 0962-8452. . doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1837
  • Boessenkool, Sanne; Star, Bastiaan; Seddon, Philip J & Waters, Jonathan M (2010). Temporal genetic samples indicate small effective population size of the endangered yellow-eyed penguin. Conservation Genetics.  ISSN 1566-0621.  11(2), s 539- 546 . doi: 10.1007/s10592-009-9988-8
  • Lopes, Joa S. & Boessenkool, Sanne (2010). The use of approximate Bayesian computation in conservation genetics and its application in a case study on yellow-eyed penguin.. Conservation Genetics.  ISSN 1566-0621.  11, s 421- 433 . doi: 10.1007/s10592-009-0032-9
  • Boessenkool, Sanne; Star, Bastiaan; Waters, Jonathan M & Seddon, Philip J (2009). Multilocus assignment analyses reveal multiple units and rare migration events in the recently expanded yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes). Molecular Ecology.  ISSN 0962-1083.  18(11), s 2390- 2400 . doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04203.x

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  • Epp, Laura; Boessenkool, Sanne; Bellemain, Eva; Gussarova, Galina; Coissac, Eric; Taberlet, Pierre; Willerslev, Eske et al. (2011). Ancient archives in the dirt: Environmental barcoding to study past Arctic ecosystem changes.
  • Epp, Laura; Boessenkool, Sanne; Bellemain, Eva; Gussarova, Galina; Coissac, Eric; Taberlet, Pierre; Willerslev, Eske et al. (2011). Environmental barcoding to track past Arctic ecosystem changes.
  • Epp, Laura; Boessenkool, Sanne; Bellemain, Eva; Gussarova, Galina; Willerslev, Eske; Coissac, Eric; Taberlet, Pierre et al. (2011). Environmental metabarcoding of permafrost to track ancient Arctic ecosystem changes.
  • Epp, Laura; Boessenkool, Sanne; Bellemain, Eva; Riaz, Tiayyba; Willerslev, Eske; Taberlet, Pierre & Brochmann, Christian (2011). New environmental metabarcodes for analysing dirt DNA.
  • Bellemain, Eva Patricia; Kauserud, Håvard; Boessenkool, Sanne; Epp, Laura & Brochmann, Christian (2010). Reconstruction of historic fungal communities by barcoding DNA preserved in permafrost.
  • Boessenkool, Sanne; Epp, Laura; Haile, James; Bellemain, Eva Patricia; Esposito, Alfonso; Coissac, Eric; Taberlet, Pierre et al. (2010). Arctic archives in the dirt: Paleoecological reconstruction of biodiversity from ancient DNA preserved in permafrost soils.
  • Boessenkool, Sanne; Star, Bastiaan; Scofield, R. Paul; Philip, Seddon & Waters, Jonathan M (2010). Lost in translation or deliberate falsification? Genetic analyses reveal erroneous museum data for historic penguin specimens.
  • Epp, Laura; Boessenkool, Sanne; Bellemain, Eva; Willerslev, Eske; Taberlet, Pierre; Coissac, Eric & Brochmann, Christian (2010). Biodiversity in the dirt: reliable (mini)barcodes for DNA-based paleo-ecology.
  • Boessenkool, Sanne (2009). Spatiotemporal genetic analyses reveal the dynamic population history of yellow-eyed penguins.
  • Boessenkool, Sanne; Seddon, Philip J & Waters, Jonathan M (2009). Rare migration events despite range expansion: spatiotemporal genetic analyses reveal the dynamic history of yellow-eyed penguins.
  • Epp, Laura; Boessenkool, Sanne; Bellemain, Eva; Esposito, Alfonso; Gusarov, Vladimir; Johnsen, Arild; Kauserud, Håvard et al. (2009). BarFrost – A new project for reconstructing past ecosystems by barcoding DNA from permafrost.

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Published Jun 22, 2009 03:32 PM - Last modified Mar 29, 2012 09:12 PM

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