Flatt Group – Evolution & Mechanisms of Life History and Aging
Department of Biology, University of Fribourg
Thomas Flatt
Principal Investigator - Professor
Margot Paris
Post Doctoral Researcher
Harshavardhan Thyagarajan
Post Doctoral Researcher
Hannah Augustijnen
Post Doctoral Researcher
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.
