Wolbachia–Drosophila Interaction
MSCA Fellow, CBGP, INRAE, Montpellier, France

Svitlana Serga

Principal investigator

Associate Professor, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Research questions:

Host-symbiont coevolution

Endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia in Drosophila model

Research organisms: Drosophila suzukii, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila simulans 

Experimental & Bioinformatic expertise: Drosophila population genetics, Drosophila species identification, life-history traits analysis, molecular genetics, and analysis of endosymbionts in host natural populations