We are a diverse group of people combining skills in evolutionary biology, microbiology, bioinformatics and genomics. But we are also passionate about conservation genetics and many other topics.
We are at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and run the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics.
Daniel Croll
Principal investigator, Assistant Professor, Vice-Director Institute of Biology
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Thomas Badet
Postdoctoral fellow
Evolution of genomes and gene expression
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Simone Fouché
Postdoctoral fellow
Chromosomal evolution and transposable elements
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Alice Feurtey
Postdoctoral fellow / Junior group leader [co-supervised with Bruce McDonald, ETH Zürich]
Population genomics of Zymoseptoria tritici
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Sabina Tralamazza
Postdoctoral fellow
Metabolome evolution
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Ursula Oggenfuss
PhD student
The biology of transposable elements
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Nikhil Kumar Singh
PhD student
The genetic basis of host-pathogen interactions
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Leen Abraham
PhD student
Transcriptional control of host-pathogen interactions
Anik Dutta
PhD student [co-supervised with Bruce McDonald, ETH Zürich]
Genetic basis of wheat - wheat blast interactions
Lea Stauber
PhD student [co-supervised with Simone Prospero, WSL]
Population genomic analyses of the chestnut blight pathogen
Luzia Stalder
PhD student
Microbiome interactions
Vinciane Monod
PhD student [co-supervised with Katia Gindro and Valérie Hofstetter, Agroscope]
Grapevine diseases
Hadjer Bellah
PhD student (Swiss Government Excellence Fellowship)
Plant pathogen interactions
Sarai Reyes
PhD student
Next-generation framework for the detection of genetically modified organisms
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Guido Puccetti
PhD student
Phenomics of Zymoseptoria tritici
Vinciane Mossion
PhD student
Transcriptomics and phylogenetics of ferns
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Gholam-Hossein Jowkar
PhD student [co-supervised with Maria Anisimova, ZHAW Wädenswil]
Algorithm development for phylogenetic reconstructions
MSc students
Laetitia Holzer, Sara Hurschler, Elizabete Ferreira, Nicolas Seiler, Hanna Glad, Fanny Gagliardi
Lab technicians
Ophélie Gning
Cristela Bondo Mateus (apprentice)
Visitors/interns
Maëlle Wannier