Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL
Funktion
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Gruppe
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Standort
WSL Birmensdorf Bi MG C 39
Main research interests: Local adaptation, population genetics, and hybridization of forest trees and alpine plants.
I am scientific staff member and senior researcher in research group Ecological Genetics and involved in various projects dealing with environmental adaptation and hybridization of plants, especially of forest trees. We are interested if and how plants are genetically adapted to local environmental conditions, how species and populations will deal with habitat alterations like climate change, and in the role of hybridization and introgression in these processes.
Domitille Coq--Etchegaray
(Post-Doc in the TreeGD project)
Domitille studies genome-wide genetic diversity and climate adaptation in five native tree species.
Andrea Modica
(Post-Doc in the OptFORESTS project)
Andrea studies the genomics of environmental adaptation in Quercus petraea populations across the European continent.
Jasmine Tschan
(ETH PhD student)
Jasmine currently works on the development of automated and proxy-based country-specific genetic diversity indicators within the framework of the Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for more than 23,000 species in Switzerland.
Johanna Gärtner
(ETH master student in the TreeGD project)
Johanna investigates population genetic and hybridization patterns within the Tilia species complex.
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