Christophe Dessimoz
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Christophe obtained his Master in Biology (2003) and PhD in Computer Science (2009) from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. After a postdoc at the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge (UK), he joined University College London as lecturer (2013), then Reader (2015). In 2015, he joined the University of Lausanne as SNSF professor, retaining an appointment at UCL, where part of his lab remains active. Since 2016, Christophe is also a group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
Research Interest
algorithms, orthogonal studies.,
Publications
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Suchan T, EspÃndola A, Rutschmann S, Emerson BC, Gori K, et al., (2017). Assessing the potential of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within species radiations: The fly genus Chiastocheta (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) as a case study. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114:189-198.
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Jeffares DC, Jolly C, Hoti M, Speed D, Shaw L, et al., (2017). Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast. Nature communications. 8: 14061.
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Train CM, Glover NM, Gonnet GH, Altenhoff AM, Dessimoz C. (2017). Orthologous Matrix (OMA) algorithm 2.0: more robust to asymmetric evolutionary rates and more scalable hierarchical orthologous group inference. Bioinformatics. 33: i75-82.
