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Biography
BSc Physical Geography, University College London (2007); MSc Freshwater and Coastal Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London (2008); PhD Queen's University Belfast (2012).
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Genetics, Japan (2012); Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2013); JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Genetics, Japan (2014-2015); Researcher, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Norway (2015-2018); Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Norway (2018-2019); Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, UK (2019-present).
Expertise Summary
Population genetics
Genomics of adaptation and speciation
Bioinformatics
Research Summary
Our research uses genomic, phenotypic and ecological approaches to understand speciation, adaptation and evolution. We are interested in the role that gene flow and hybridization plays in these… read more
Selected Publications
RAVINET M, ELGVIN TO, TRIER C, ALIABADIAN M, GAVRILOV A and SÆTRE GP, 2018. Signatures of human-commensalism in the house sparrow genome. Proceedings. Biological sciences. 285(1884), ELGVIN TO, TRIER CN, TØRRESEN OK, HAGEN IJ, LIEN S, NEDERBRAGT AJ, RAVINET M, JENSEN H and SÆTRE GP, 2017. The genomic mosaicism of hybrid speciation. Science advances. 3(6), e1602996
Current Research
Our research uses genomic, phenotypic and ecological approaches to understand speciation, adaptation and evolution. We are interested in the role that gene flow and hybridization plays in these processes. Why is it that in some contexts introgression between species is detrimental and cause the collapse of species boundaries, when in others it can be a creative force, providing the genetic and phenotypic variation required for adaptation and in some cases, speciation?
We also study the evolution of human commensalism. Human impact has altered the evolutionary trajectory of a huge number of species. Some species are able to survive and even thrive in human-altered niches. How does such human-dependency evolve? What are the genomic underpinnings underlying adaptation to a human-transformed world? We study Passer sparrows, particularly the house sparrow, to address these questions.