Dr. Christian Rellstab - Personal Homepage

Organisational unit: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Ecological Genetics Phone: +41 44 7392 542 Fax: +41 44 7392 215 Room: Bi MG C 39 E-Mail: Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

I am an evolutionary ecologist that combines experimental approaches, field work, genetic tools and statistics to answer interesting questions asked in biology. My interest in natural science is very broad and I have repeatedly participated in interdisciplinary projects using various study systems like fish, zooplankton, trematodes, flowers and trees.

I am a post-doctoral researcher in Felix Gugerli's research group (Ecological genetics) and involved in two projects dealing with the local adaptation of plants:

• the SNF project AVE that investigates adaptive genetic variation and adaptation to environmental heterogeneity in alpine plants, using next-generation sequencing technology. This done in co-operation with Rolf Holderegger (WSL Birmensdorf) and the groups of Alex Widmer (ETH Zürich) and Kentaro Shimizu (University of Zürich).
  
  
• the BAFU project QuercAdapt which investigates the relationship between ecological gradients and adaptive genetic variation in different oak species. Here we co-operate with Christoph Sperisen and Lorenz Walthert from the WSL in Birmendsdorf.