We try to understand how genomes evolve and how genomic variation is linked to phenotypic variation, adaptation, and evolution of traits.
Currently the lab has projects on:
- Genome evolution after whole genome duplication
- Genome regulation through life stage transitions
- Host-microbiome interactions
Lab updates
August 2020
- I gave a talk at the online EcoEvo Seminar series on regulatory evolution following WGD. If you are interested, you can watch it here:
- Welome Hanna and Domniki as new master students in the lab!
- After years in the making we are sharing our new manuscript (link here) about selection on gene expression after whole genome duplication. Great collaboration with the Hvidsten lab!
April 2020
- New publication out in PLOS One, led by David Hazlerigg at UiT.We identify novel genes responsive to photoeriod changes in Atlantic salmon. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227496
- New publication out in MEC led by Yang Jin. We study how domestication have shaped the liver transcriptome and lipid-metabolism regulation. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15446
January 2020
- New preprint out: We find associations between the gut microbiome and host metabolism in Atlantic salmon. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.941245v1
- Yes! We got the ImproveAFish project funded by NFR-havbruk. Together with Phil Pope, Torgeir Hvidsten (and others) we will interrogate host-microbiome interactions in Atlantic salmon.
- My first sabatical has started! Im in the Skarmeta-lab in Sevilla to learn about how to apply Hi-ChiP experiments to my favourite research question: consequences of WGD on genome regulatory evolution!!
...and we couldnt have done what we do without support from:
