People
Current members
Alexander Suh - principal investigator
Alex is currently lecturer at University of East Anglia and researcher at Uppsala University.
Please find more information about him on his personal website, Twitter, and Google Scholar.
Francisco "Paco" J. Ruiz-Ruano - postdoc
Paco is a Lawski-funded postdoc working on the evolution of satellite repeats and transposable elements in potato. His research further focuses on the genomics of B chromosomes and germline-restricted chromosomes (more on his personal website).
You can find him on Twitter and Google Scholar.
Octavio M. Palacios-Gimenez - postdoc
Octavio is a Lawski-funded postdoc working with us and Takeshi Kawakami on repetitive elements, chromosomal speciation, and sex chromosome evolution in grasshoppers (more on his personal website).
You can find him on Twitter and Google Scholar.
Julie Blommaert - postdoc
Julie is a SciLifeLab-funded postdoc working on the evolution of extreme GC content and G-quadruplexes on avian microchromosomes. She is also interested in weird genomes in general (more on her personal website).
You can find her on Twitter and Google Scholar.
Valentina Peona - PhD student
Valentina is doing her PhD on the evolution of genome structure in the exciting birds-of-paradise and related songbirds. She is also an expert on merging multiple sequencing platforms into one high-quality assembly.
You can find her on Twitter and Google Scholar.
Ivar Westerberg - master student
Ivar is a master student at Uppsala University and doing his master thesis project on centromere evolution in songbirds using a comparative genomics and population genomics perspective.
Roberto Rossini - master student
Roberto is a master student at Uppsala University and doing his master thesis project on improving assembly and annotation methods for germline-restricted chromosomes.
Augustin Chen - Erasmus+ trainee
Augustin recently graduated from University of Strasburg / Saarland University and is doing an Erasmus+ traineeship with us to study GC-rich genes in birds.
You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
VISITORS and Affiliates
James Galbraith - affiliated PhD student
James is a PhD student in David Adelson's lab at University of Adelaide and affiliated with us to study LINEs in birds and beetles.
You can find him on Twitter and Google Scholar.
Alumni and previous visitors
Stephen Schlebush - visiting postdoc (February 2020) from Charles University Prague
Karl Nyrén - 15-credit project work (September - November 2019) from Uppsala University
Julia Koelman - 20-credit project work (May - August 2019) from Uppsala University
Jesper Boman - 15-credit project work and affiliated master student (June 2018 - July 2019) from Uppsala University
Niki Vontzou - Erasmus+ traineeship and affiliated master student (November 2018 - July 2019) from University of Thessaly
Boel Olsson - 15-credit project work and bachelor thesis project (January - June 2019) from Uppsala University
Anne-Marie Dion-Côté - postdoc (October 2017 - December 2018), now assistant professor at Université de Moncton
Nazeefa Fatima - 15-credit project work (September - November 2018) from Lund University
Mozes Blom - visiting postdoc (July 2017 - October 2018) from NHM Stockholm, now bioinformatician at NHM Berlin
Muhammad Bilal - Erasmus+ traineeship (December 2017 - March 2018) from University of Camerino
Cormac Kinsella - master thesis project and research assistant (March - October 2017), now PhD student at University of Amsterdam
Marco Ricci - visiting researcher (June - November 2017) from University of Bologna
Joshua Peñalba - visiting PhD student (March 2017) from Australian National University, now postdoc at LMU Munich
Caroline Guldvog - visiting PhD student (August 2017) from University of Oslo
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