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. ![]() |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() |
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. ![]() |
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 |