Flatt Group – Evolution & Mechanisms of Life History and Aging
University of Fribourg
Thomas Flatt
Principal Investigator
Martin Kapun
Esra Durmaz
Post Doctoral Researcher
Katja Hoedjes
Post Doctoral Researcher
Envel Kerdaffrec
Margot Paris
Research interests:
(1) Genomic basis of life history adaptation; endocrine mechanisms of trade-offs; (2) Evolutionary genetics of aging and longevity; (3) Genomics of clinal variation, climate adaptation, and inversion clines; (4) “Evolve & resequence” experiments.
Research organisms:
Drosophila melanogaster.
Expertise:
Life history & aging assays; insulin signaling and endocrine physiology; immunity; clinal variation; inversion polymorphisms; DNA pool-seq; RNA-seq; population genomics; identifying and functionally testing adaptive polymorphisms; experimental evolution.
