{"id":12,"date":"2022-05-04T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:25:14","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Principal Investigator<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Carolin Kosiol<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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2022 – present<\/strong> Reader, <\/span><\/span>Centre for Biological Diversity – University of St Andrews<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2017 – 2022<\/strong> Lecturer<\/em>, <\/span><\/span>Centre for Biological Diversity – University of St Andrews<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2009 – 2016 <\/strong>Group Leader, <\/em>Institute\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>of<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Population\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Genetics –<\/span><\/span>\u200b<\/span> Vetmeduni Vienna<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2006 – 2009<\/strong> Postdoc<\/span><\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>with<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Adam\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Siepel<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>and<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Carlos\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Bustamante<\/span><\/span>\u200b – Cornell University<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2002 – 2006<\/strong> PhD<\/em> studies <\/span>with <\/span>\u200b<\/span>Nick Goldman – EMBL -European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Cambridge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2000 – 2002<\/strong> MSc<\/em> High\u00a0<\/span>Performance\u00a0<\/span>Computing<\/span>\u200b – Trinity College Dublin<\/em>
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1993 – 1999<\/strong> Undergraduate<\/em> in\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Mathematics,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Physics and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Philosophy – University of Mainz<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Carolin\u2019s research focuses on the development of computational methods to investigate adaptation at different time-scales ranging from a few generations in experimental evolution data to studies of population demography to phylogenetic analysis of multiple species. Genomes sequences, both from closely related species and from individuals of the same species, are increasingly available. These large amounts of data offer a great opportunity to study speciation and the evolutionary history of populations, provided they can properly model the process of evolution within and between species simultaneously. Together with her group, Carolin has recently developed evolutionary models that bridge the gap between phylogeny and population genetics by taking polymorphism as well as species data into account. She very much enjoys working with experimentalists on genomic data sets that pose ever new challenges to models.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Postdocs<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Antonio Pacheco<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u00a0My name is Antonio Pacheco. I did my PhD in Genetics and Genomics with Scotland\u2019s Rural College (SRUC) at the University of Edinburgh. The focus of my project was to determine the feasibility of selecting sheep for improved resistance to infections caused by gastrointestinal parasites by assessing their health status and estimating genetic paramters. The study also included novel traits related to immune responses. I am interested in genetic and genomic selection, and I am also interested in species tree inference methodologies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Nick Bailey<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\"\"I\u2019m interested in understanding how evolution operates over different time-scales, which I\u2019ve studied using computational analyses. I\u2019m currently researching the use of artificial intelligence to detect selection in population genetic data. In previous postdoctoral work with the CNRS at the University of Lyon 1 I carried out simulations to examine the impact of polymorphism on phylogenetic inferences of selection. During my PhD at Auburn University I examined hybridisation and speciation in macaques using sequenced genomic data.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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PhD students<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Manel El Ait Hadj<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Hi, I am Manel. I have a background in molecular biology, genetics and genomics. I joined the Kosiol group to pursue a Ph.D in Bioinformatics and Computational biology, I am currently working on optimising methods for tree inference using Polymorphism-aware phylogenetic Model (PoMo) along with RNA-seq for trait evolution to better understand speciation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Omar Ruelas<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

My name is Omar Ruelas, I\u2019m doing my PhD at the Centre for Biological Diversity under supervision of Carolin Kosiol. I am interested in models of traits evolution, and how they are related to the evolutionary history of the species at different temporal and spatial scales. My project is focused on incorporating polymorphic morphological traits as part of the \u00a0speciation tree inference.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Alumni<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Postdocs<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Svitlana Braichenko<\/a><\/strong> (now Cross-disciplinary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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My name is Svitlana Braichenko. I did my PhD in Computational Biology at the University of Southampton and then worked as the Research Associate in Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh. I am interested in the application of Machine Learning and inference to biological processes, particularly in genetics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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PhD students<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Carolina Barata<\/strong> (<\/a>now postdoctoral fellow at IST Austria)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Lynette Mikula<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Dominik Schrempf<\/strong><\/a> (now a postdoc at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Agnes Jonas <\/strong>(now working for Stanley-Morgan)
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Nicola De Maio<\/strong><\/a> (now a researcher at EMBL-EBI, Cambridge)
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Collaborators<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Rui Borges<\/a><\/strong> – University of St Andrews<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Bastien Boussau<\/strong><\/a> – University of Lyon<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Gergely Sz\u00f6ll\u0151si<\/strong><\/a> – E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal Investigator Carolin Kosiol   2022 – present Reader, Centre for Biological Diversity – University of St Andrews 2017 – 2022 Lecturer, Centre for Biological Diversity – University of St Andrews 2009 – 2016 Group Leader, Institute\u00a0of\u00a0Population\u00a0Genetics –\u200b Vetmeduni Vienna 2006 – 2009 Postdoc\u00a0with\u00a0Adam\u00a0Siepel\u00a0and\u00a0Carlos\u00a0Bustamante\u200b – Cornell University 2002 – 2006 PhD studies with \u200bNick Goldman…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/kosiol-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}