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Kay Lucek – Principal investigator

Kay is an SNSF Eccellenza Assistent Professor at the University of Neuchâtel. His research aims to advance our understanding on how biodiversity evolves and is maintained. To address this  genomic tools are especially used, ranging from metabarcoding to whole genome sequencing. A key goal is to understand how chromosomes may be reshuffled and what happens when species come into contact again following their range expansions since the last ice age.

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Hannah Augustijnen – PhD student

Projects:

The rates of speciation driven by chromosomal fusion and fission in Erebia butterflies

The evolutionary outcome of secondary contact in the E. tyndarus group

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Camille Cornet – PhD student

Project:

The genomic architecture of chromosomal fusion & fission in Erebia butterflies

 

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Paula Escuer – PostDoc

Project:

The comparative (epi-)genomic architecture of chromosomal rearrangements in Lepidoptera

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Fanny Gagliardi – PhD student

Project:

The role of allochrony upon secondary contact in Erebia butterflies

Ashwini Mohan – Postdoc

Project:

The comparative (epi-)genomic architecture of chromosomal rearrangements in Carex

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Elias Trachsel – MSc student

Project:

The evolutionary outcome of secondary contact between subspecies of the Lycaena hippothoe complex


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Former Lab Members

Selim Bouaouina (MSc 2018-2019), currently PhD student at the Swiss TPH