My PhD research focuses on the population genomics of inter-chromosomal rearrangements. I am currently testing whether fission and fusion rearrangements act as barriers to gene flow between species of Brenthis fritillary butterfly.

• (2019 - present) PhD Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK

• (2018 - 2019) MSc Bioinformatics, Lund University, Sweden

• (2014 - 2018) BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (Evolutionary Biology), University of Edinburgh, UK

• Mackintosh A, Vila R, Laetsch DR, Hayward A, Martin SH, Lohse K. 2022. Chromosome fissions and fusions act as barriers to gene flow between Brenthis fritillary butterflies. bioRxiv

• Mackintosh A, Laetsch DR, Baril T, Ebdon S, Jay P, Vila R, Hayward A, Lohse K. 2022. The genome sequence of the scarce swallowtail, Iphiclides podalirius. G3, 12 (9), jkac193

• Mackintosh A, Laetsch DR, Baril T, Foster RG, Dincă V, Vila R, Hayward A, Lohse K. 2022. The genome sequence of the lesser marbled fritillary, Brenthis ino, and evidence for a segregating neo-Z chromosome. G3, 12 (6), jkac069

• Lundberg M, Mackintosh A, Petri A, Bensch S. 2021. Inversions maintain differences between migratory phenotypes of a songbird. bioRxiv

• Mackintosh A, Laetsch DR, Hayward A, Charlesworth B, Waterfall M, Vila R, Lohse K. 2019. The determinants of genetic diversity in butterflies. Nat Commun 10, 3466