Current Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Takeshi Kawakami
I have broad interests in the fields of genetics of speciation and adaptation but am particularly interested in how variation in recombination rate impacts process of speciation and adaptation.
I have been using both animals and plants to explore my research interests.
For more specific information about my research interests, please see Research Project and Publications.
Brief CV
2015- Swedish Research Council INCA fellow, Uppsala University, Sweden
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK
2013-2014 Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden
2008-2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Kansas State University, USA
2004-2008 PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
PhD Student
Homa Popoli
Homa is supervised by Prof. Hans Ellegren (Uppsala University) and myself and is focussing on evolution of sex chromosomes in birds. Unlike mammals, male birds have two copies of Z chromosome while female birds have one each copy of Z chromosome and W chromosome. Importantly, there is a huge variation in size and the degree of sex chromosome differentiation among birds. Her project focuses on molecular evolution of sex chromosomes in relation to the patterns of recombination by using various bird species.
Brief CV
2014- PhD student, Uppsala University, Sweden
2013-2014: Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute, Germany
2011-2013: Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology,
Uppsala University, Sweden, and University of Montpellier, France
2007-2011 BSc, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran