2024 Workshop on Genomics, Český Krumlov Instructors


 

Daniel Méndez Aranda
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

Daniel is a PostDoc at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, working with naked mole-rats and their hypoxia tolerance adaptations. He did his PhD on adaptations to nectarivory and sugar digestion in birds.

 

 

 

Janina Rinke
University of Münster, Germany

Janina is a PhD student at the University of Münster, Germany. She is interested in the evolution of social insects and particularly the impact of transposable elements on species adaptation and divergence. In the past, she has been investigating horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to ants and possible new, interesting functions of these HGTs within ants. In her research, she uses large-scale sequencing data and comparative genomics methods to tackle broad evolutionary questions.

 

 

 

Karthick GajendiranKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Karthick is a PhD candidate at the Wulff Lab in the Center for Desert Agriculture at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on molecular plant-microbe interactions, particularly identifying avirulent effectors in the stem rust pathogen. Karthick specializes in bioinformatics, engaging in mapping, SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) calling, and effector prediction. His work employs advanced computational tools and methodologies to explore complex genetic interactions, contributing significantly to the field of plant pathology. His research is aimed at enhancing our understanding of plant disease resistance, offering insights that could lead to innovative crop protection strategies and promote sustainable agriculture practices.

 

Luis Chica
Washington University, USA

Luis is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the Computational and Systems Biology program at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. His research focuses on the intricate interactions between commensal bacteria, their corresponding viruses, and their impact on host health. For his research, Luis employs a blend of culture-based methodologies alongside the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data of the human microbiome.

 

 

Miloš Duchoslav
Charles University, Czech Republic

Miloš did his PhD in molecular biology of plants, focused on photosynthesis. As a postdoc, he moved to the field of ecological genomics of plants. He is studying adaptation of plants to toxic soils and parallelism in evolution.

 

 

 

Thea Rogers
University of Vienna, Austria

Thea received her PhD in evolutionary genomics from the University of Sheffield (2022). Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral scientist in the Simakov Lab at the University of Vienna. Her prevailing research interest lies in understanding the role of gene regulation and selection in the evolution of biodiversity. During her postdoc, she uses primarily RNA-seq, ATAC-seq and 3C data to understand the gene regulatory mechanisms shaping coleiod cephalopod (squid, octopus, cuttlefish) complex traits such as their large and uniquely structured nervous system.

 

 

2023 Workshop on Genomics, Český Krumlov Instructors


Alena di Primio
Royal Netherland Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherlands

Alena is currently (still) a PhD student at the Royal Netherland Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). She studies a relatively novel group of bacteria called Woeseiales, which are globally abundant in marine sediments and water column. Her research consists of a wet lab part where she recharacterizes the growth conditions of the sole isolate, and a dry lab part where she uses genomic data to reconstruct the metabolism of a closely related group, investigate their environmental distribution and abundance, and infer their ecological role in the environment.

 

Janina Rinke
University of Münster, Germany

Janina is a PhD student at the University of Münster, Germany. She is interested in the evolution of social insects and particularly the impact of transposable elements on species adaptation and divergence. In the past, she has been investigating horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to ants and possible new, interesting functions of these HGTs within ants. In her research, she uses large-scale sequencing data and comparative genomics methods to tackle broad evolutionary questions.

 

 

Kartik Singhal
Washington University, St Louis, USA

Kartik is a PhD student in the Molecular Genetics and Genomics program at Washington University in St Louis, USA. He is pursuing his thesis research in Malachi Griffith and Obi Griffith’s lab where he is interested in using multi-omic techniques to better understand cancer’s interaction with the immune system. He primarily analyzes single-cell omics data and works in R and Python for his analyses.

 

 

Madeline Chase
Uppsala University, Sweden; and Swiss Ornithological Institute, Switzerland

Madeline Chase succesfully defended her PhD thesis on speciation genomics in Ficedula flycatchers. She is now starting a postdoc position in the Swiss Ornithological Institute to continue working on bird genome evolution, with focus on speciation and population genomics.

 

 

 

Miloš Duchoslav
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Miloš is doing his PhD in molecular biology of plants, focused on photosynthesis. As a postdoc, he moved to the field of ecological genomics of plants. He is studying adaptation of plants to toxic soils and parallelism in evolution.

 

 

 

 

 


Previous years Workshop on Genomics Instructors
 

2022
Kateryna Pantiukh, University of Tartu, Estonia
Mercè Montoliu Nerín, Uppsala University
Karin Steffen, Uppsala University
Nikos Tsardakas Renhuldt, Lund University
Kalle Tunström, Stockholm University

2020
Madee Chase, Uppsala University
Joan Ferrer Obiol, University of Barcelona
Karin Steffen, Uppsala University
Nikos Tsardakas Renhuldt, Lund University
Kalle Tunström, Stockholm University

2019
Joan Ferrer Obiol, University of Barcelona
Andrew Gustin, University of Washington
Mahwash Jamy, Uppsala University
Karin Steffen, Uppsala University
Alyssa Woronik, New York University

2018
Carly Graham, University of Regina
Guy Leonard, University of Exeter
Daniel McDonald, UC San Diego
Josie Paris, University of Sussex
Angel G. Rivera-Colón, University of Illnois
Hanna Sigeman, Lund University
Alyssa Woronik, New York University

2017
Sarah Baldwin, McGill University
Anna Karnkowska, Warsaw University
Guy Leonard, University of Exeter
Daniel McDonald, UC San Diego
Maria Pachiadaki, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Josie Paris, University of Exeter
Sophie Shaw, University of Aberdeen
Yoshiki Vazquez Baeza, UC San Diego
Elin Videvall, Lund University

2016
Guy Leonard, University of Exeter
Sophie Shaw, University of Aberdeen
Josie Paris, University of Exeter
Lokeshwaran Manoharan, Lund University
Jan Provaznik, University of Southern Bohemia
Elin Videvall, Lund University

2015
Guy Leonard, University of Exeter
Sophie Shaw, University of Aberdeen
Josie Paris, University of Exeter
Ludovic Dutoit, Uppsala University
Jordi Paps, Oxford University
Adam Bazinet, University of Maryland
Alper Kucukural, University of Massachusetts

2014
Guy Leonard, University of Exeter
Sophie Shaw, University of Aberdeen
Adam Bazinet, University of Maryland
Anders Lanzén, Neiker-Tecnalia
Melanie Melendrez, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Daniel McDonald, University of Colorado
Dag Ahren, Lund University

2013
Adam Bazinet, University of Maryland
Daniel Ayres, University of Maryland
Daniel McDonald, University of Colorado
Kristina Cammen, Duke University
Peter Batzel, University of Oregon
Luke Ursell, University of Colorado

2012
Adam Bazinet, University of Maryland
Daniel McDonald, University of Colorado
Dag Ahren, Lund University
Lionel Guy, Uppsala University
Tejashwari Meerupati, Lund University
Matthew Conte, University of Maryland

2011
Adam Bazinet, University of Maryland
Daniel McDonald, University of Colorado
Giovanna Carpi, Fondazione Edmnund Mach
Daniel Ayres, University of Maryland
Henk den Bakker, Cornell University
Ted Gibbons, University of Maryland
Gerardo Nava, Washington University
Lionel Guy, Uppsala University