UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG

The main evolutionary forces mutation, genetic drift, migration and selection all affected the genetic diversity observed today. We aim at tracing back the interplay and relative importance of these forces in the history of a population or species. Since multiple evolutionary forces can leave very similar signatures, we continue to develop dedicated statistical tools, with which we elucidate the evolutionary history of a diverse set of organisms from chimpanzees to date palms... Population genetics can contribute to our understanding of human health by characterizing the genetic makeup of humans, the evolutionary forces that shaped these, and by studying the evolutionary forces acting on human pathogens. We continue to develop and apply new statistical tools in all these areas... Thanks to our expertise in statistical inference, we are able to contribute to a large range of biological questions, and we are very open for collaboration with experimentalists from all areas of biology...

Primary location: Fribourg France