We study speciation, natural selection, and recombination using genomes from wild populations of insects via the development and implementation of novel computational methods.
September 2024 - Huge congrats to Alex Mackintosh for winning the International Birnstiel Award for his PhD on chromosome rearrangements and speciation in Brenthis fritillaries. Well deserved!!!
December 2024 - If you are interested in joining the lab as a PhD student, we are currently offering two butterfly genomics projects for funding through:
Please get in touch with Konrad before applying!
Additionally, if you find these projects exciting, you should also consider applying for this sister project on butterfly museomics with Saad Arif at Oxford Brookes. There will be opportunity for students to colloborate between projects/institutions.
Institute of Ecology and Evolution
University of Edinburgh
Ashworth Labs, Charlotte Auerbach Rd
Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, UK