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Frederik Valeur Seersholm is a researcher specializing in the use of ancient DNA to study disease, kinship and population dynamics in the past. His work focuses on understanding how historical events, such as the spread of diseases like plague, shaped human populations and ecosystems.
Education/Academic qualification
Ancient genomics, PhD, The Quaternary Biodiversity Crisis Assessed with Bulk Bone Metabarcoding, Curtin University
30 Jun 2018 → 30 Sept 0004
Award Date: 4 Sept 2020
Molecular Biomedicine, Masters, Three Thousand Years of Resource Economy in Greenland: an Ancient DNA Approach to Study Archaeological Kitchen Middens, University of Copenhagen
1 Aug 2013 → 10 Sept 2015
Award Date: 10 Sept 2015
Molecular Biomedicine, Bachelors, Two Distinct Transport Routes Mediate Nuclear Export of the Yeast mRNA-binding Protein Mrn1, University of Copenhagen
8 Jan 2010 → 8 Jan 2013
Award Date: 1 Aug 2013
Keywords
- Faculty of Science
- ancient DNA
- plague
- Palaeopathology
- Genomics
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
Seersholm, F. V., Sjögren, K.-G., Koelman, J., Blank, M., Svensson, E. M., Staring, J., Fraser, M., Pinotti, T., McColl, H., Gaunitz, C., Ruiz-Bedoya, T., Granehäll, L., Villegas-Ramirez, B., Fischer, A., Price, T. D., Allentoft, M. E., Iversen, A. K. N., Axelsson, T., Ahlström, T. & Götherström, A. & 6 others, , 2024, In: Nature. 632, 8023, p. 114-121Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Rapid range shifts and megafaunal extinctions associated with late Pleistocene climate change
Seersholm, F. V., Werndly, D. J., Grealy, A., Johnson, T., Keenan Early, E. M., Lundelius, E. L., Winsborough, B., Farr, G. E., Toomey, R., Hansen, A. J., Shapiro, B., Waters, M. R., McDonald, G., Linderholm, A., Stafford, T. W. & Bunce, M., 2020, In: Nature Communications. 11, 1, 10 p., 2770.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago
Seersholm, F. V., Pedersen, M. W., Søe, M. J., Shokry, H., Mak, S., Ruter, A. H., Raghavan, M., Fitzhugh, W., Kjær, K. H., Willerslev, E., Meldgaard, M., Kapel, C. & Hansen, A. J., 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 9 p., 13389.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Exploring DNA degradation in situ and in museum storage through genomics and metagenomics
Eriksen, A. M. H., Rodríguez, J. A., Seersholm, F., Hollund, H. I., Gotfredsen, A. B., Collins, M. J., Grønnow, B., Pedersen, M. W., Gilbert, M. T. P. & Matthiesen, H., 2025, In: Communications Biology . 8, 14 p., 210.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Holocene shifts in marine mammal distributions around Northern Greenland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA
Schreiber, L., Ribeiro, S., Jackson, R., Kvorning, A. B., Nota, K., O’Regan, M., Pearce, C., Seersholm, F., Seidenkrantz, M.-S., Zimmermann, H. H. & Lorenzen, E. D., 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 17 p., 4543.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Postglacial Recolonization of the Southern Ocean by Elephant Seals Occurred From Multiple Glacial Refugia
Berg, A. A., Askew, M., Seersholm, F. V., Verry, A. J. F., Hoelzel, A. R., Welch, A., Greig, K., Walter, R., Knapp, M., Barlow, A., Paijmans, J. L. A., Waters, J. M., Bunce, M., McDonald, K., O'Connor, S., Hall, B., Koch, P. L., Baroni, C., Salvatore, M. C. & Faulkner, P. & 3 others, , 2025, In: Global Change Biology. 31, 3, 11 p., e70101.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Steppe Ancestry in western Eurasia and the spread of the Germanic Languages
McColl, H., Kroonen, G., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Valeur Seersholm, F., Scorrano, G., Pinotti, T., Vimala, T., Sindbæk, S. M., Ethelberg, P., Fyfe, R., Gaillard, M.-J., Larsen, H. M. E. A., Mortensen, M. F., Demeter, F., Jørkov, M. L. S., Bergerbrant, S., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, M. E., Vinner, L. & Gaunitz, C. & 95 others, , 2025, 66 p. (bioRxiv).Research output: Working paper › Research
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The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia
Sikora, M., Canteri, E., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Oskolkov, N., Ågren, R., Hansson, L., Irving-Pease, E. K., Mühlemann, B., Nielsen, S. H., Scorrano, G., Allentoft, M. E., Seersholm, F. V., Schroeder, H., Gaunitz, C., Stenderup, J., Vinner, L., Jones, T. C., Nystedt, B., Sjögren, K.-G. & Parkhill, J. & 5 others, , 2025, In: Nature. 643, 8073, p. 1011-1019Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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