Alvarez Nadir
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Mar 2013- Swiss National Foundation (SNF) Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Mar 2010-Feb 2013 Research Associate (Swiss National Foundation Ambizione fellow) at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Oct 2005-Feb 2010 Junior Lecturer (Maître-Assistant) at the Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Jan 2005-Sep 2005 Postdoc at the Institute of Botany (Prof. Küpfer’s lab), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Oct 2001-Dec 2004 PhD at the Centre for Evolutionary & Functional Ecology (Dr. Hossaert-McKey’s research group), University of Montpellier, France. 2001 MSc. (DEA) in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at the University of Montpellier, France.
Research Interest
Investigating the genetic processes that occur following changes in a species’ distribution. Phylogeography has been our main research topic for the last ten years with a more recent focus on comparative phylogeography in plants and associated insects. We are now interested in understanding the extent to which the magnitude of a species range shift might influence dynamics of alleles in populations, as well as diversification processes.
Publications
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Pitteloud C, Arrigo N, Suchan T, Mastretta-Yanes A, Vila R, et al., (2017). Climatic niche evolution is faster in sympatric than allopatric lineages of the butterfly genus Pyrgus. InProc. R. Soc. B 12 284 : 20170208.
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Schmid S, Genevest R, Gobet E, Suchan T, Sperisen C, et al., (2017). HyRADâ€X, a versatile method combining exome capture and RAD sequencing to extract genomic information from ancient DNA. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2017.
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Pellissier L, Kostikova A, Litsios G, Salamin N, Alvarez N. (2017). Higher rate of protein coding sequence evolution and species diversification in the Lycaenids. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2017;5: 90.
