Projects
Assessing the conservation status of wild banana genetic resources by means of population genetics and distribution modelling KU Leuven
Crop wild relatives (CWR) are wild plant species that are closely related or ancestral to cultivated plants. Because they often have high allelic diversity compared to their associated crop, they are an important source for the improvement of multiple agronomic traits such as yield or the resistance against biotic or abiotic stresses. Loss of genetic diversity due to increasing anthropogenic pressure now threatens their long term survival. ...
How broad is the genetic basis of Vietnamese Musa species? Population genetics and phylogeography as a tool to locate interesting alleles against biotic and abiotic stresses Meise Botanic Garden
Towards a strategy for the sustainable management of fragmented orchid populations: integrating ecology and population genetics. KU Leuven
Population and landscape genetics in the water flea Daphnia KU Leuven
Summary
The population genetic structure of natural populations in landscapes is the result of a complex interaction between ecological and evolutionary processes such as gene flow, genetic drift and selection, which in turn are shaped by landscape characteristics (environmental gradients and geography), historical processes, or their combined effects. Understanding the relative role of these processes is fundamental to improve our ...
Research on the population genetics of beaver in Flanders Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Conservation genetics of zoo and wildlife populations Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Population genetic structure and cryptic diversity in free-living marine nematodes: descritpion and implications for population and ecosystem functioning Ghent University
This projects investigates the population genetic structure and cryptic diversity of selected free-living marine neamtode species using a combined molecular - morphological - morphometric approach. In addition, functional implications of genotypic diversity within known morphospecies are experimentally studied. Finally, the relationship between genetic diversity and the fitness, resistance and resilience of nematode populations is empirically ...
Conservation biology of fragmented wild orchid populations: integrating genetics and ecology in a spatial context. KU Leuven
Evolutionary and population genetic consequences of social structure and genetic relatedness on disease and adaptive landscapes of human genome KU Leuven
Research under this program will focus on the effect of social structure and kinship on processes that cause genetic differentiation within and among human populations, including those that affect the entire genomes and those resulting in differences among individual loci, those under the influence of selection and those that cause disease. I am interested to know how deviations from panmixia, including sexspecific demographic processes, in ...