Nils Arrigo
arrigon@email.arizona.edu
Education
Swiss FNS Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2010 - present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne, 2010 (advisor: Nicolas Salamin)
Ph.D., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Neuchatel, 2009
M.S., Biology, University of Neuchatel, 2005
Research Interests
I have a strong interest into understanding how lineages evolve and diversify along time. The evolutive units on which I focus range from gene families to species, with a strong emphasis on processes acting at the population scale. My approaches make an intensive use of data mining and bioinformatics. I generally tend to investigate several layers of diversity, encompassing population genetics and phylogeography, in a way to account at best for the context into which lineages are evolving. So far, I explored these topics through several phylogeographies of European plants (Aegilops, Ranunculus, Alisma, Peucedanum, Ophrys) and insects (Oreina), based essentially on genotyping (SSRs, AFLPs) and single gene sequencing. In parallel, I also explored the domestication of several crops (Vitis and Triticum) and the relations with their extant wild relatives. I was in particular interested about the consequences of gene flow between crop and wild relatives.I now turn myself towards next generation sequencing and comparative genomics, with the group of Mike Barker. I have a strong interest in learning how to manage the massive amounts of genomic data and how to extract information from them. My post-doctoral research focuses on Selaginella (i.e. a Lycophyte) and investigates the genomic consequences of hybridization and their importance during the emergence of new species.
Publications
http://publicationslist.org/arrigon
Software
RawGeno