Max-Planck-Institut
Contact
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 341 3550 - 500
e-mail: mittag@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Benjamin Peter
Group Leader
"Genetic Diversity through Space and Time"
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: 0049 (0) 341 3550 507
fax: 0049 (0) 341 3550 555
e-mail: benjamin_peter@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Education & Employment
| since 11/2017 | Group Leader Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 10/2014-09/2017 | Postdoctoral scholar with John Novembre, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, USA |
| 08/2010-08/2014 | Ph.D. in Integrative Biology with a designated emphasis in Computational Biology and Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, USA Advisors: Rasmus Nielsen and Montgomery Slatkin Title: Inference from Two Non-Equilibrium Models in Population Genetics. |
| 08/2008-02/2010 | MSc in Ecology and Evolution University of Bern, Switzerland Advisor: Laurent Excoffier Title: Distinguishing between population bottleneck and population subdivision by a Bayesian model choice procedure. |
| 10/2005-08/2008 | BSc in Biology (with special qualification in Plant Sciences), University of Bern, Switzerland |
Publications
2021
Schörnig, M., Ju, X.-C., Fast, L., Weigert, A., Schaffer, T., Ebert, S., Treutlein, B., Kasri, N. N., Peter, B., Hevers, W., & Taverna, E. (2021). Comparison of induced neurons reveals slower structural and functional maturation in humans than in apes. eLife,10: e59323.  Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2020
| Mafessoni, F., Grote, S., de Filippo, C., Slon, V., Kolobova, K. A., Viola, B., Markin, S. V., Chintalapati, M., Peyrégne, S., Skov, L., Skoglund, P., Krivoshapkin, A. I., Derevianko, A. P., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Peter, B., Prüfer, K., & Pääbo, S. (2020). A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,117(26), 15132-15136. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Massilani, D., Skov, L., Hajdinjak, M., Gunchinsuren, B., Tseveendorj, D., Yi, S., Lee, J., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Devièse, T., Higham, T., Meyer, M., Kelso, J., Peter, B., & Pääbo, S. (2020). Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Science,370(6516), 579-583. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Peter, B. M. (2020). 100,000 years of gene flow between Neandertals and Denisovans in the Altai mountains. bioRxiv. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Peter, B. M., Petkova, D., & Novembre, J. (2020). Genetic landscapes reveal how human genetic diversity aligns with geography. Molecular Biology and Evolution,37(4), 943-951. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Peyrégne, S., & Peter, B. M. (2020). AuthentiCT: A model of ancient DNA damage to estimate the proportion of present-day DNA contamination. Genome Biology,21: 246. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2018
| Key, F. M., Abdul-Aziz, M. A., Mundry, R., Peter, B. M., Sekar, A., D'Amato, M., Dennis, M. Y., Schmidt, J. M., & Andrés, A. M. (2018). Human local adaptation of the TRPM8 cold receptor along a latitudinal cline. PLoS Genetics,14(5): e1007298. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Mafessoni, F., de Filippo, C., Slon, V., Grote, S., Chintalapati, M., Peter, B., Viola, B., Markin, S. V., Vasilyev, S. K., Rudaya, N. A., Kolobova, K. A., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Kelso, J., Meyer, M., Prüfer, K., & Pääbo, S. (2018). A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave. In T. A. Klimenkova ( BibTeX Endnote |
2017
| Jeong, C., Peter, B. M., Basnyat, B., Neupane, M., Beall, C. M., Childs, G., Craig, S. R., Novembre, J., & Di Rienzo, A. (2017). A longitudinal cline characterizes the genetic structure of human populations in the Tibetan plateau. PLoS One,12(4): 0175885. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2016
| de Manuel, M., Kuhlwilm, M., Frandsen, P., Sousa, V. C., Desai, T., Prado-Martinez, J., Hernandez-Rodriguez, J., Dupanloup, I., Lao, O., Hallast, P., Schmidt, J. M., Heredia-Genestar, J. M., Benazzo, A., Barbujani, G., Peter, B. M., Kuderna, L. F. K., Casals, F., Angedakin, S., Arandjelovic, M., Boesch, C., Kühl, H. S., Vigilant, L., Langergraber, K., Novembre, J., Gut, M., Gut, I., Navarro, A., Carlsen, F., Andrés, A. M., Siegismund, H. R., Scally, A., Excoffier, L., Tyler-Smith, C., Castellano, S., Xue, Y., Hvilsom, C., & Marques-Bonet, T. (2016). Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos. Science,354(6311), 477-481. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Nakagome, S., Alkorta-Aranburu, G., Amat, R., Howie, o. B., Peter, B. M., Hudson, R. R., & Rienzo, A. D. (2016). Estimating the ages of selection signals from different epochs in human history. Molecular Biology and Evolution,33(3), 657-669. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Novembre, J., & Peter, B. M. (2016). Recent advances in the study of fine-scale population structure in humans. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development,41, 98-105. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Peter, B. M. (2016). Admixture, population structure, and F-statistics. Genetics,202(4), 1485-1501. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Potter, S., Bragg, J. G., Peter, B. M., Bi, K., & Moritz, C. (2016). Phylogenomics at the tips: Inferring lineages and their demographic history in a tropical lizard, Carlia amax. Molecular Ecology,25(6), 1367-1380. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2015
| Peter, B. M., & Slatkin, M. (2015). The effective founder effect in a spatially expanding population. Evolution,69(3), 721-734. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2014
| Clemente, F. J., Cardona, A., Inchley, C. E., Peter, B. M., Jacobs, G., Pagani, L., Lawson, D. J., Antão, T., Vicente, M., Mitt, M., DeGiorgio, M., Faltyskova, Z., Xue, Y., Ayub, Q., Szpak, M., Mägi, R., Eriksson, A., Manica, A., Raghavan, M., Rasmussen, M., Rasmussen, S., Willerslev, E., Vidal-Puig, A., Tyler-Smith, C., Villems, R., Nielsen, R., Metspalu, M., Malyarchuk, B., Derenko, M., & Kivisild, T. (2014). A selective sweep on a deleterious mutation in CPT1A in Arctic populations. The American Journal of Human Genetics,95(5), 584-589. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Huerta-Sánchez, E., Jin, X., Asan, Bianba, Z., Peter, B. M., Vinckenbosch, N., Liang, Y., Yi, X., He, M., Somel, M., Ni, P., Wang, B., Ou, X., Huasang, Luosang, J., Cuo, Z. X. P., Li, K., Gao, G., Yin, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, X., Xu, X., Yang, H., Li, Y., Wang, J., & Nielsen, J. W. R. (2014). Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA. Nature,512(7513), 194-197. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Key, F. M., Peter, B., Dennis, M. Y., Huerta-Sanchez, E., Tang, W., Prokunina-Olsson, L., Nielsen, R., & Andrés, A. M. (2014). Selection on a variant associated with improved viral clearance drives local, adaptive pseudogenization of Interferon Lambda 4 (IFNL 4). PLoS Genetics,10(10): e1004681. Open Access DOI PubMed BibTeX Endnote | |
| Reppell, M., Koch, E., Peter, B. M., & Novembre, J. (2014). Surfing waves of data in San Diego: Sophisticated analyses provide a broad view of human genetic diversity. Genome Biology,15: 562. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2013
| Peter, B. M., & Slatkin, M. (2013). Detecting range expansions from genetic data. Evolution,67(11), 3274-3289. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2012
| Peter, B. M., Huerta-Sanchez, E., & Nielsen, R. (2012). Distinguishing between selective sweeps from standing variation and from a De Novo Mutation. PLoS Genetics,8(10): e1003011. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2010
| Peter, B. M., Wegmann, D., & Excoffier, L. (2010). Distinguishing between population bottleneck and population subdivision by a Bayesian model choice procedure. Molecular Ecology,19(21), 4648-4660. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
