Kondrashov, Fyodor

Biography

He started his career in the lab of Eugene Koonin at NCBI, NIH in 2000 leaving to do his MA degree in 2003 at University of California at Davis. In 2005 he started his PhD in University of California at San Diego graduating in 2008. In 2008 he became a Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. In 2010 he was selected for the EMBO Young Investigator award and he also received the Dobzhansky Prize. In 2011 he became an ICREA Research Professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Early Career Scientist in 2012.

Research Interest

They strive to understand the reasons behind the evolution of all life. One of the focuses of their laboratory is computational studies of genomic information. They analyze these data under the prism of population genetics and evolutionary theory to describe novel evolutionary and biological phenomena. They also carry out experimental work aimed at obtaining evolutionary phenomena in natural populations and measuring in the laboratory important parameters, such as the strength of selection and the rate of mutation. Overall, they use any data that we can get our hand on to understand something new about evolution and biology.