Génétique et Ecologie Evolutive
Angeles DE CARA
- Published: 28 February 2017
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Campus du CNRS
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A physicist turned population geneticist. I am now based at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive in Montpellier, working with Mathieu Joron on the population genomics of adaptation and mimicry in Heliconius numata butterflies.
Ángeles Rodríguez de Cara
A not-so-brief history of research:
- 2017 - present: postdoc at Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive.
- 2013 - 2016: Postdoc at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, where I worked with Frederic Austerlitz, Mathieu Joron and Marianne Elias on inference of selection. My website there.
- 2010 - 2013: Postdoc at INIA, Madrid
- 2007 - 2010: Full time mother
- 2003 - 2007: Postdoc at Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh
- 2003: Short postdoc at IIASA
- 1998 - 2003: PhD student under the joint supervision of Francisco Guinea and Fernando Hiraldo. Most of the PhD research was performed at ICMM (CSIC) in Madrid, some at EBD (CSIC) in Seville, and a year spent in the Department of Zoology in Oxford.
Recent publications
- Merenciano et al (2016), "Multiple Independent Retroelement Insertions in the Promoter of a Stress Response Gene Have Variable Molecular and Functional Effects in Drosophila" Plos Genetics
- Bosse, Megens, Madsen, Crooijman, Ryder, Austerlitz, Groenen and de Cara, "Using genome-wide measures of coancestry to maintain diversity and fitness in an endangered and domestic pig populations", Genome Research (2015)
- Rodriguez-Ramilo, Garcia-Cortes and de Cara (2015), "Artificial selection with traditional or genomic relationships: consequences in coancestry and genetic diversity", Frontiers in Genetics
- Saura et al (2015) "Detecting inbreeding depression for reproductive traits in Iberian pigs using genome-wide data", GSE
- de Cara, Villanueva, Toro and Fernandez (2013), "Using genomic tools to maintain diversity and fitness in conservation programmes", Mol Ecol.
- Gomez-Romano, Villanueva, Toro, de Cara and Fernandez (2013), "Maintaining genetic diversity using molecular coancestry: the effect of marker density and effective population size", Genetics Selection Evolution 45:38.
- de Cara, Villanueva, Toro and Fernandez (2013), "Purging deleterious mutations in conservation programmes: combining optimal contributions with inbred matings", Heredity 110:530-537.
- de Cara, Fernandez, Toro and Villanueva (2011), "Using genome-wide information to minimise the loss of diversity in conservation programmes", J Animal Breeding and Genetics 128:456-464.
A couple of recent talks:
- An overview in Toulouse, February 2015, on my work on conservation
- Things I've done so far on inference of selection, Zurich, March 2015
