Christopher Wheat

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Ecological & Evolutionary Functional Genomics, mostly butterflies. Biology Professor, Stockholm University.

Stockholm archipelago, sunset at Grönskär
Waiting in line … for the best BBQ Europe has to offer …
Swedish academics asking THE question
Tram stop in Tempe celebrating local Leps
The aim of this proposal is to place population genomic insights into a comparative framework to gain fundamental insights into the determinants of evolutionary outcomes. The project will work within LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortium (https://lepeu.github.io/). LepEU provides access to field samples from European populations of diverse species. Chromosome-scale reference genomes are provided by Project Psyche (https://www.projectpsyche.org/). Networking during the postdoc will be facilitated by participation in the 10kLepGenomes COST Action (https://10klepgenomes.eu/). Existing datasets await analysis, while additional samples need DNA extraction and submission for sequencing. Functional validation capability (CRISPR/Cas9 gene manipulations) is also available to test emergent hypotheses of allele-to-phenotype impacts. Personal research interests of the postdoc will be important to determine the exact project, as the project has a generous sequencing budget.
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Weisman, Caroline M., Andrew W. Murray, and Sean R. Eddy. “Mixing Genome Annotation Methods in a Comparative Analysis Inflates the Apparent Number of Lineage-Specific Genes.” Current Biology 0, no. 0 (May 18, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.085.