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

Marie Føreid Merkel

Job description

Ansvarlig for de genetiske laboratoriene ved Norges arktiske unievristets museum ( Tromsø Museum). 

Work areas

Laboratoriearbeid / Laboratoriedrift
  • 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
  • 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. septiembre 2022 DOI / 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
  • 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
  • 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 / FULLTEKST
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Katrine Kongshavn et al.:
    The Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL)
    2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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)
    2014
  • Torbjørn Ekrem, Inger Greve Alsos, Arild Johnsen, Endre Willassen, Aina Mærk Aspaas, Marie Kristine Føreid et al.:
    Norwegian Barcode of Life
    2014
  • Per Johan E Sjøgren, Mary Elizabeth Edwards, Catherine Langdon, Ludovic Gielly, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Inger Greve Alsos :
    Lake sedDNA as a proxy for 20th century conifer afforestation and vegetation change in Scotland
    2014

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    Research interests

    Noen av prosjektene som arbeisdgruppa ved Norges arktiske univeristets museum jobber med og som bruker laboratoriene våre: 

    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 Trackking of refugia and Postglacial Dispersal

     

     

    Teaching

    Tar studentene gjennom de praktiske laboratorie oppgavene på kurs BIO-3025/BIO-8025


    Member of research group

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