Project Coordinator
Sergio González-Mollinedo
Sergio is a herpetologist at heart. He's interested in conservation genomics, evolvability and adaptive mechanisms. Sergio is currently a first-year PhD student, working on the genomics of inbreeding depression at the University of Groningen.
Administration
Arve Lee Willingham Grijalba
Arve is a PhD student at Pasteur Institute investigating the codiversification of the oral microbiota with ancient humans in the Southern Cone. He is interested in a variety of topics from ancient parasitology to domestication.
Brandon Samuel
Whitley
Brandon is a PhD Fellow in Arctic Plant Diversity and Pollination Networks at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. He is studying plant-pollinator interactions in Greenland, working with pollen DNA metabarcoding and genome skimming techniques.
Elpida Skarlou
Elpida is a 2nd-year MEME student just out of Montpellier, where she studied Cytonuclear Male Sterility in the freshwater snail P. acuta. Now in the University of Edinburgh for her final MEME semester, she will study the genetics of maternal sex determination in the blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies).
Juan José Lagos-Oviedo
Juan José combines theoretical modeling, behavioral experiments, and comparative analyses to understand the evolution of social insects. He is doing his PhD at Würzburg University in Germany, studying the evolution of rescue behavior in ants.
Juliana Rodríguez Fuentes
Juliana is a PhD student in the University of Bern. She studies the phenotypic effects of chromosomal inversions in Threespine Sticklebacks. More broadly, she is interested in the mechanisms driving phenotypic diversification and speciation.
Course Design
Anshuman Swain
Anshuman is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He studies neo-ecological and paleo-ecological networks using a combination of theoretical, field-based, and museum-based research.
Giorgio Boccarella
Giorgio is a PhD student at the University of KU Leuven where he studies bacterial persistence and antibiotic resistance. His work focuses on simulations and modelling of gene regulatory networks.
Henry North
Henry is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. He uses a population genomics approach to study rapid adaptation, hybridization and the evolution of reproductive isolation (i.e. speciation), especially among invasive species.
Jan Kreider
Jan is a PhD student at the University of Groningen where he studies social evolution, focussing on social insects in particular. He mostly uses simulations models but also does some experiments and genetic analyses.
Jana Riederer
Jana is a third-year PhD student at Groningen University. She combines theoretical and empirical approaches to study evolvability and social systems, exploring question such as how sexual selection impacts the evolution of adaptive radiations.
Raphaël Scherrer
Raph is a temporary lecturer and PhD candidate in theoretical evolutionary biology at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. He builds and works with models and simulations to learn about how new species form, and more generally about how biological diversity is generated.
Saudat Alishayeva
Saudat is a 2022 MEME graduate interested in evo-devo and behavioral plasticity. After graduating from MEME, she will be starting her PhD on the experimental evolution of complex traits at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen.
Stefany Moreno-Gámez
Stefany is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. She has worked on several topics in microbial ecology and evolution and is currently studying how glycans shape the assembly and function of the human gut microbiome.
Tanmay Dixit
Tanmay is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, studying the evolution and behavioural ecology of brood parasite–host interactions. His research focusses on how selection from parasitism can affect the evolution of egg patterns.
Secretariat
Augustin Chen
Augustin is interested in somatic evolution, that is, can development be understood as an evolutionary process with diversity and selection unfolding at the cellular level? To this aim, he started a PhD in 2022 where he does lineage tracing of brain malformations that cause childhood epilepsies in humans.
Web Design
Afra Salazar
Afra is a PhD student at the University of Lausanne, she combines theory and experiments to investigate methods of artificial selection in microbial communities. She is also a cinema aficionado.
Ben Kawam
Ben is a PhD student at the German Primate Center. He is interested in the structure of behaviour — particularly social behaviour —, and is generally enthusiastic about statistical and causal inference.
Former Team Members
Mehdi Khadraoui
Mehdi
Mehdi is a Communications Officer at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna. After pursuing his interest for social evolution in research, he switched careers to share his passion with a broad audience.