We are interested in understanding how recent, population level processes have shaped sequence variation in genomes. Our research combines the development of statistical methods for estimating population history from genomic data with empirical work on speciation and community evolution in a variety of (mainly) Insect systems including, desert flies, high alpine beetles parasitoid wasps and butterflies.

2020 - present: Senior Lecturer 

2015-2021: NERC Independent Research Fellow

2011-2014: NERC Junior Research Fellow

2006-2010: PhD, Inferring population history from genealogies, University of Edinburgh

2005: BSc, Evolutionary Biology, University of St. Andrews

• Jordan CY, Lohse K, Turner F, Thomson M, Gharbi K, Ennos RA. 2017. Maintaining their genetic distance; limited gene flow between widely hybridising species of Geum with contrasting mating systems. Molecular Ecology, in press

• Lohse K. 2017. Come on feel the noise – from metaphors to null models. JEB , 30 (8), 1506–1508

• Beeravolu CR, Hickerson MJ, Frantz LAF, Lohse K. 2016. Approximate likelihood inference of complex population histories and recombination from multiple genomes, bioArXiv

• Nuernberger B, Lohse K, Fijarczyk A, Szymura, JM, Blaxter M. 2016. Para-allopatry in hybridizing fire-bellied toads (Bombina bombinaand B. variegata): inference from transcriptome-wide coalescence analyses, Evolution, 70 (8): 1803–1818

• Lohse K, Chmelik M, Martin SH, Barton NH. 2016. Efficient strategies for calculating blockwise likelihoods under the coalescent, Genetics, 202 (2): 775-786

• Lohse K, Ross L. 2015. What haplodiploids can teach us about hybridization and speciation, Molecular Ecology,  4 (20): 5075-5077

• Bunnefeld L, Frantz LAF, Lohse K. 2015. Inferring Bottlenecks from Genome-Wide Samples of Short Sequence Blocks, Genetics, 201 (3): 1157-1169

• Lohse K, Clarke M, Ritchie MG, Etges WJ. 2015. Genome-wide tests for introgression between cactophilic Drosophila implicate a role of inversions during speciation, Evolution, 69 (5): 1178–1190

• Frantz LAF, Madsen O, Megens H-J, Groenen MAM, Lohse K. 2014. Testing models of speciation from genome sequences: divergence and asymmetric admixture in Island Southeast Asian Sus species during the Plio-Pleistocene climatic fluctuations, Molecular Ecology, 23(22): 5566–5574

• Lohse K, Frantz LAF. 2014. Maximum likelihood evidence for Neandertal admixture in Eurasia from three genome. Genetics 196 (4): 1241-1251

• Hearn J, Stone GN, Nicholls JA, Barton N, Lohse K. 2014. Likelihood-based inference of population history from low coverage de novo genome assemblies, Molecular Ecology, 23 (1): 198-211

• Melika G, Tang C-T, Sinclair F, Yang M-M, Lohse K, Hearn J, Nicholls JA, Stone GN. 2013. A new genus of oak gallwasp, Cyclocynips Melika, Tang & Sinclair (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini), with descriptions of two new species from Taiwan, Zootaxa , 3630 (3): 534-548

• Lohse K, Barton N, Melika G, Stone GN. 2012. A likelihood based comparison of population histories in a parasitoid guild, Molecular Ecology, 22(18): 4605-4617

• Smith G, Lohse K, Etges WJ, Ritchie MG. 2012. Model-based comparisons of phylogeographic scenarios resolve the intraspecific divergence of cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis, Molecular Ecology, 21: 3293-3307

• Stone* GN, Lohse* K, Nicholls JA, Sinclair F, Schönrogge K, Csóka G, Melika G, Nieves-Aldrey J-N, Pujade-Villar J, Tavakoli M, Askew RR, Hickerson* MJ. 2012. Reconstructing community assembly in time and space reveals enemy escape in a western Palearctic insect community, Current Biology, 22 (6), R182-183

• Lohse K, Harrison R, Barton N. 2011. A general method for calculating likelihoods under the coalescent process, Genetics, 189 (3): 977-987

• Lohse K, Sharanowski B, Blaxter M, Nicholls JA, Stone GN. 2011. Developing EPIC markers for chalcidoid Hymenoptera from EST and genomic data. Molecular Ecology Resources, 11, 521-529

• Lohse K, Nicholls JA, Stone GN. 2011. Inferring the colonisation of a mountain range – nunatak survival in high alpine ground beetles. Molecular Ecology, 20: 394-408

• Lohse K, Sharanowski B, Stone GN. 2010. Quantifying the Pleistocene history of the oak gall parasitoid Cecidostiba fungosa using twenty intron loci. Evolution, 64 (9): 2664-2681

• Kaatinen R, Stone GN, Hearn J, Lohse K, Roslin T. 2010. Revealing secret liaisons: DNA bar-coding changes our understanding of food webs. Entomologial Ecology, 35 (5): 623-638

• Lohse K. 2009. Can barcodes be used to delimit species? A response to Pons et al. (2006). Systematic Biology, 58 (4): 439-442

• Lohse K, Kelleher J. 2009. Measuring the degree of starshape in genealogies – summary statistics and demographic inference. Genetics Research, 91: 281-292

• Lohse K, Gutierrez A, Kaltz O. 2007. Experimental evolution of resistance in Paramecium caudatum against the bacterial parasite Holospora undulata. Evolution, 60 (6): 1177-1186