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Curriculum Vitae
Personal info
Full name
Nationality
Ida Moltke
Danish
Education
Jul ‘11
Oct ‘07
Jun ‘05
PhD in medical and evolutionary genetics, University of Copenhagen/UC
Berkeley. Advisor: Professor Rasmus Nielsen,
M.Sc. Bioinformatics, University of Copenhagen
B.Sc. Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Copenhagen
Academic positions
June ’12Postdoc, University of Chicago. Advisor: Matthew Stephens, Professor at UChicago
Aug ’11- May ‘12 Postdoc, University of Copenhagen. Advisor: Rasmus Nielsen, Professor at UC Berkeley
Dec ‘07-Jul ‘11 PhD student, University of Copenhagen/UC Berkeley. Advisor: Rasmus Nielsen
Teaching
Summer/fall ‘12
Summer ‘12
Winter ’11
Summer ’11
Spring ‘09, ‘10
Summer ‘09
Summer ‘08
Spring ‘08
Fall ‘06
Co-advisor on master thesis on population genetic tests for new generation sequencing data
Co-organizer of and lecturer on a PhD course in human medical Genetics. Taught
together with Professors Rasmus Nielsen, Andrew G. Clark and Yun S. Song.
Taught ¼ of a master course on basic statistics, University of Copenhagen
(gave all lectures and exercise classes and formulated an exam assignment)
Co-organizer of and lecturer on a PhD course in human medical genetics taught
together with Professors Rasmus Nielsen and Andrew G. Clark and Mark A. Beaumont
Taught 1/3 of a master course on population genetics, University of Copenhagen
(gave all lectures and exercise classes, formulated exams and corrected exams)
Co-organizer and TA on an international PhD course in human population genetics taught by Professors Rasmus Nielsen, Monty Slatkin and Andrew G. Clark
Co-organizer and TA on a PhD course on comparative genomics taught by
Professors Rasmus Nielsen, John Huelsenbeck and Andrew G. Clark
Guest lecturer on a master course on phylogenetics, University of Copenhagen
TA on a master course on computer programming and Unix, University of Copenhagen
Participation in major international research projects
’09-’10
Sequencing and analysis of the first ancient human nuclear genome. A collaboration
between researchers from University of Copenhagen, UC Berkeley, Cambridge
University and Oxford University. The resulting paper was published in Nature.
’08-’11
Sequencing and comparative analysis of 29 mammalian genomes. A collaboration
between researchers from University of Copenhagen, Harvard University, MIT and
Stanford University. The resulting paper was published in Nature.
’11-present
Five projects based on whole genome sequencing of ancient humans and horses. The
projects are all collaborations between researchers from University of Copenhagen, UC
Berkeley, Stanford University and U Chicago. 4 of the projects are still ongoing. The 5th
has resulted in a paper published in Nature.
Talks/Workshops/Conferences
June ’12
Dec ’11
Nov ’11
Nov ’11
Oct ’11
Oct ’11
Sep ‘11
Jul ‘11
Jul ‘11
Oct ‘09
May ‘09
Invited to give a talk at Centre for Geogenetics, Copenhagen, Denmark
Workshop: “Coancestry, Association and Population Genomics”, UCLA, USA
Talk at the Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Cornell, USA
Talk at the Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, USA
Conference: American Society of Human Genetics’ annual meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Workshop: “Populations of the New World: impact of founder effects on health”, Canada.
Talk at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris, France
Talk at the Annual meeting for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Kyoto, Japan
Conference: Annual meeting for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Kyoto, Japan
Conference: American Society of Human Genetics’ annual meeting, Honolulu, USA, poster
Conference: Biology of Genomes, CSHL, USA, poster
Theses
A probabilistic model of local RNA 3D structure, Master
Statistical inference of IBD sharing in humans and its applications in evolutionary and medical genetics, PhD
Additional contributions to the academic community
Fall ’12‘11-‘12
’05-’07
Organizer of a journal club on population genetics at the University of Chicago
Co-organizer of monthly meetings to facilitate collaborations between 6 labs at the
University of Copenhagen working with population genetics
Member of the study board for Bioinformatics at the University of Copenhagen
This included being a reviewer of all the applicants for the Master’s program.
Grants/scholarships/awards
’12
’11
’11
‘11
’08-‘10
’06-’07
Sapere Aude: DFF Ung Eliteforsker award, Danish Council for Independent Research (~1M dkk)
Postdoc fellowship, Danish Council for Independent Research (FSS) (~2M dkk)
Postdoc fellowship, Danish Council for Independent Research (FNU) (~2M dkk) (declined)
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, graduate student travel award 2011
University of Copenhagen grant for visiting UC Berkeley regularly during my PhD
Carlsbergs Mindelegat; a Danish scholarship, awarded to Master students whom a
committee consisting primarily of professors from several Danish universities considers
to be especially talented.
Current collaborators
Professor Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley
Professors Eske Willerslev and Ludovic Orlando, Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen
Professor Finn Cilius Nielsen, Rigshospitalet
Professor Torben Hansen, The Novo Nordisk Foundation for Basic Metabolic Research
Post doc Anders Albrechtsen, The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen
Publications
(11 in total, 3 as first author)
L Orlando, A Ginolhac, G Zhang, D Froese, A Albrechtsen, M Stiller, M Schubert, E Cappelino, B Petersen,
I Moltke et al.: Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene
horse. Nature. 2013 Jul; 499; 74–78
K Lindblad-Toh, M Garber, O Zuk, MF Lin, BJ Parker, S Washietl, P Kheradpour, J Ernst, G Jordan, E
Mauceli, LD Ward, CB Lowe, AK Holloway, M Clamp, S Gnerre, J Alfoldi, K Beal, J Chang, H Clawson, J
Cuff, FD Palma, S Fitzgerald, P Flicek, M Guttman, MJ Hubisz, DB Jaffe, I Jungreis, WJ Kent, D Kostka, M
Lara, AL Martins, T Massingham, I Moltke et al.: A high-resolution map of evolutionary constraint in the
human genome based on 29 eutherian mammals. Nature. 2011 Oct; 478(7370):476-82.
BJ Parker , I Moltke, A Roth, S Washietl, J Wen, M Kellis, R Breaker, JS Pedersen: New families of human
regulatory RNA structures identified by comparative analysis of vertebrate genomes. Genome Research.
2011 Nov; 21(11):1929-43.
L Orlando, A Ginolhac, M Raghavan, J Vilstrup, M Rasmussen, K Magnussen, K Steinmann, P Kapranov,
JF Thompson, G Zazula, D Froese, I Moltke, B Shapiro, M Hofreiter, KAS Al-Rashid, J Mundy, MTP
Gilbert, E Willerslev: True Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing of a Pleistocene Horse bone. Genome
Research. 2011 Oct; 21(10):1705-19.
I Moltke, A Albrechtsen, TvO Hansen, FC Nielsen, R Nielsen: A method for detecting IBD Regions in
Multiple Individuals Simultaneously with applications to mapping. Genome Research. 2011 Jul;
21(7):1168-80.
AM Kolte, HS Nielsen, I Moltke, B Degn, B Pedersen, L Sunde, FC Nielsen, OB Christiansen: A genomewide scan in affected sib-pairs with idiopathic recurrent miscarriage suggests genetic linkage. Mol. Hum.
Reprod. 2011 Jun;17(6):379-85.
A Albrechtsen*, I Moltke*, R Nielsen: Natural selection and the distribution of Identity By Descent in the
human genome. Genetics. 2010 Sep;186(1):295-308. (*=joint first authorship)
M Rasmussen, Y Li, S Lindgreen, JS Pedersen, A Albrechtsen, I Moltke et al.: Ancient human genome
sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo. Nature. 2010 Feb; 463(7282):757-62.
A Albrechtsen, TS Korneliussen, I Moltke, TO Hansen, FC Nielsen, R Nielsen: Relatedness mapping
and tracts of relatedness for genome-wide data in the presence of linkage disequilibrium. Genetic
epidemiology. 2009 Apr; 33(3): 266-74.
J Frellsen*, I Moltke*, M Thiim, KV Mardia, J Ferkinghoff-Borg, T Hamelryck: A probabilistic model of
RNA conformational space. PLoS Comp Biol. 2009 Jun;5(6):e1000406. (*=joint first authorship)
TT Marstrand, J Frellsen, I Moltke, M Thiim, E Valen, D Retelska, A Krogh: Asap: A Framework for OverRepresentation Statistics for Transcription Factor Binding Sites. PLoS ONE. 2008 Feb 20;3(2):e1623.