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What cyclists, cemeteries and the church can tell us about the evolutionary genetics of life, love and death

Il 29/04/2013 ore 12.00 - 13.00

Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso", CNR
Via Pietro Castellino 111
80131 - Napoli

Seminario del Dott. Erik Postma

Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich

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Education and professional positions

2011 - presentResearch Associate, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland2008 - 2011Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland2006 - 2008Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia2001 - 2005Ph.D., Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Utrecht University, The Netherlands2000MSc., Wageningen University, The Netherlands1995 - 1999BSc., Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Recent publications

B. Tschirren, E. Postma, A.N. Rutstein and S.C. Griffith (In Press). When mothers make sons sexy: maternal effects contribute to the increased sexual attractiveness of extra-pair offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1543)

E. Postma (2011) Comment on "Additive Genetic Breeding Values Correlate with the Load of Partially Deleterious Mutations". Science 333: 1221

Postma, E., Spyrou, N., Rollins, L.A., Brooks, R.C. (2011) Sex-dependent selection differentially shapes genetic variation on and off the guppy Y chromosome. Evolution 65: 2145-2156

Postma, E., Heinrich, F., Koller, U., Sardell, R.J., Reid, J.M., Arcese, P., Keller, L.F. (2011) Disentangling the effect of genes, the environment and chance on sex ratio variation in a wild bird population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 2996-3002

Thüler, K., Bussière, L.F., Postma, E., Ward, P.I., Blanckenhorn, W.U. (2011) Genetic and environmental sources of covariance among internal reproductive traits in the yellow dung fly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:1477-1486.

Research interests

Quantitative genetics, QTL mapping, inbreeding, pedigrees, natural and sexual selection, life-history theory, birds, mammals, humans.

Organizzato da:
IGB-CNR

Referente organizzativo:
Colonna Vincenza
CNR - Istituto di genetica e biofisica "Adriano Buzzati Traverso"
Via Pietro Castellino 111
80131 Napoli
vincenza.colonna@igb.cnr.it

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