Lohse Lab

We study speciation, natural selection, and recombination using genomes from wild populations of insects via the development and implementation of novel computational methods.

News

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.

Contact

Institute of Ecology and Evolution

University of Edinburgh

Ashworth Labs, Charlotte Auerbach Rd

Edinburgh, EH9 3FL, UK


Photos by former lab members CC-BY-NC contact Sam Ebdon or Alex Mackintosh