Professor Alfried P. Vogler, Natural History Museum and Imperial College, UK.
Alfried is a molecular systematist with a background working on the phylogeny and evolution of species diversity in insects. His specific interest is the order Coleoptera (beetles), the arguably largest radiation of animal species on Earth, which he uses as a model for an evolutionary understanding of the great diversity of living organisms. He applies genomics and phylogenetic analysis, working at all hierarchical levels, from populations to basal relationships of insect orders. His research group developed the technique of mitochondrial metagenomics, and is a leader in the field of community metabarcoding.
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Professor Alfried P. Vogler, Natural History Museum and Imperial College, UK.
Alfried is a molecular systematist with a background working on the phylogeny and evolution of species diversity in insects. His specific interest is the order Coleoptera (beetles), the arguably largest radiation of animal species on Earth, which he uses as a model for an evolutionary understanding of the great diversity of living organisms. He applies genomics and phylogenetic analysis, working at all hierarchical levels, from populations to basal relationships of insect orders. His research group developed the technique of mitochondrial metagenomics, and is a leader in the field of community metabarcoding.
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Dr Carola Gómez-Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Carola is interested in broad-scale macroecological patterns but, mostly, in the integrative assessment of biodiversity, where multiple layers of evidence are considered together to gain a better understanding of the processes that have shaped diversity patterns. She aims to understand how long term dispersal processes have influenced the distribution of diversity we see today. She particularly focuses on the incorporation of molecular variability and macroevolutionary information into diversity analyses.
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Carola is interested in broad-scale macroecological patterns but, mostly, in the integrative assessment of biodiversity, where multiple layers of evidence are considered together to gain a better understanding of the processes that have shaped diversity patterns. She aims to understand how long term dispersal processes have influenced the distribution of diversity we see today. She particularly focuses on the incorporation of molecular variability and macroevolutionary information into diversity analyses.
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Dr Thomas J. Creedy, Natural History Museum, UK
Thomas is a molecular ecologist with a background in tropical forest arthropod ecology, working on biodiversity surveys and community ecology. He is interested in uncovering drivers of local-scale ecological patterns in complex environments and developing methods for studying highly-diverse communities. One current focus is on developing and streamlining bioinformatic pipelines for efficient and accurate community metabarcoding.
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Thomas is a molecular ecologist with a background in tropical forest arthropod ecology, working on biodiversity surveys and community ecology. He is interested in uncovering drivers of local-scale ecological patterns in complex environments and developing methods for studying highly-diverse communities. One current focus is on developing and streamlining bioinformatic pipelines for efficient and accurate community metabarcoding.
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Assistant Professor Anna Papadopoulou, University of Cyprus
Anna is a molecular ecologist with a strong interest in the diversity of island biota. Her research combines microevolutionary approaches (phylogeography and population genetics) with a macroecological perspective to understand the processes that generate and maintain biodiversity in island systems. She also applies DNA-based methodologies for large-scale biodiversity assessment and community ecology. Currently she is taking advantage of the enormous potential offered by Next-Generation Sequencing technologies to enhance all aspects of her research. She is the co-ordinator of the H2020 Twinning iBioGen project that funds this workshop.
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Anna is a molecular ecologist with a strong interest in the diversity of island biota. Her research combines microevolutionary approaches (phylogeography and population genetics) with a macroecological perspective to understand the processes that generate and maintain biodiversity in island systems. She also applies DNA-based methodologies for large-scale biodiversity assessment and community ecology. Currently she is taking advantage of the enormous potential offered by Next-Generation Sequencing technologies to enhance all aspects of her research. She is the co-ordinator of the H2020 Twinning iBioGen project that funds this workshop.
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Assistant Professor Vasilis Promponas, University of Cyprus
Vasilis is a bioinformatician with a strong interest in the analysis of genomic and metagenomic data. His research focuses on the development of empirical, statistical and machine learning methods/tools and specialized databases for exploiting available types of biological information towards understanding biological systems. Specifically, his key contributions are in the fields of sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics and computational comparative genomics, while he has also participated in the design and benchmarking of special hardware architectures for protein sequence analysis.
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Vasilis is a bioinformatician with a strong interest in the analysis of genomic and metagenomic data. His research focuses on the development of empirical, statistical and machine learning methods/tools and specialized databases for exploiting available types of biological information towards understanding biological systems. Specifically, his key contributions are in the fields of sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics and computational comparative genomics, while he has also participated in the design and benchmarking of special hardware architectures for protein sequence analysis.
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