Bast Jens
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of ecology and evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Postdoc fellow at Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Advisor: Prof. Tanja Schwander
Research Interest
Research interest is to combine the fields of evolution, ecology and genetics to understand genomic consequences of asexual reproduction.Current work focuses on signs of ancient asexuality in oribatid mite genomes and transcriptomes. Especially,looking at the fate of transposable elements (TEs). And investigations of spermatogenesis, deleterious mutation accumulations and comparative studies of mitochondrial genomes of mites are in progress. These projects incorporate next-generation sequencing technologies and bioinformatic analyzes into evolutionary investigations.
Publications
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Soria-Carrasco V, Gompert Z, Comeault AA, Farkas TE, Parchman TL, Johnston JS, et al., (2014). Stick insect genomes reveal natural selection’s role in parallel speciation. Science. 344: 738-742.
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Kraaijeveld K, Anvar SY, Frank J, Schmitz A, Bast J, et al., (2016). Decay of sexual trait genes in an asexual parasitoid wasp. Genome biology and evolution. 8: 3685-3695.
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Bast J, Schaefer I, Schwander T, Maraun M, Scheu S, et al., (2015). No accumulation of transposable elements in asexual arthropods. Molecular biology and evolution. 33: 697-706.
