The anthropocene as seen through historical insect DNA

 

In this project I mainly use museomics approaches to sequence old museum samples of drosophilid flies to study: i) the effects of anthropocene in the last couple of centuries on the genome of Drosophila melanogaster samples stored in museums; and ii) the phylogenomics of drosophilidae family focusing on rare and under-represented lineages.

Postdoctoral Researcher: Dr. Hamid Reza Ghanavi (LU)
Supervision: Dr. Marcus Stensmyr (LU), Dr. Christer Löfstedt (LU), Dr. Jadranka Rota (LU), Dr. Niklas Wahlberg (LU), Dr. Bill S. Hansson (MPI-CE)