Larger Text
Smaller TextHendrik Poinar
, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Associate Member, Anthropology
McMaster University
537 Chester New Hall
905-525-9140 ext. 26331
poinarh@mcmaster.ca
Currently accepting Graduate Students
Faculty Biography
Education and Professional Standing
- PhD, Ludwig Maximillian University (Munich), 1999
Interests
I am a molecular evolutionary geneticist and biological anthropologist by training, and rely heavily on interdisciplinary research. I use both chemical and molecular techniques to elucidate the state of preservation within forensic, archeological and paleontological remains. This information is subsequently used to devise novel techniques to extract the molecular information (DNA and/or protein sequences) which is then used to address evolutionary and anthropological questions, such as the "relatedness" of Archaic humans and Neanderthals from a genetic standpoint, sex and diet from prehistoric Native Amerindian hunter-gatherer populations using coprolites samples and the timing and origin of HIV, using archival blood and brain tissue samples.Selected Publications
- (in press). Molecular Caving. (With Hofrieter, M., Mead J., and Martin, P.S.) Current Biology. 2003.
- 2003. Nuclear gene sequences from a Late Pleistocene sloth coprolite. (with Kuch, M., McDonald, G., Martin, P.S. and Paabo, S.) Current Biology 13, 1150-1152.
- 2002. The genetic secrets some fossils hold. Accounts of Chemical Research, 35, 676-84.
- 2001. Molecular analyses of oral polio vaccine samples. (with Kuch, M. and Paabo, S.) Science 292, 743-744.
- 2001. A molecular analyses of the dietary diversity for three archaic native americans. (With Kuch, M., Sobolik, K., Barnes, I., Stankiewicz, B.A., Spaulding, G., Bryant, V., Cooper, A. & Paabo S.) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98, 4317-4322.
- 2000. Ancient DNA: Do it right or not at all. (with A. Cooper) Science 289, 1139.
- 1998. Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet from of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis. (with Hofreiter, M., Spaulding, G., Martin, P.S., Stankiewicz, A. B., Bland, H. Evershed, R. P., Possnert, G., Paabo, S.) Science 281, 402-406.
