UNIFR
Dept Biology
Ecology & Evolution
 


The Lexer Lab


Molecular ecology
&

evolutionary genetics group




People


Group leader
Prof. Christian Lexer

Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Eligio Bossolini
Dr. Kai N. Stölting

Ph.D. students
Camille Christe
Celine Caseys
Dorothea Lindtke
Maria Joao Amaral
Andres Cortes* (Uppsala, Sweden)
David Macaya Sanz* (Madrid, Spain)

Master students
Cecile Meier
Christoph Stritt
Fabienne Marthaler
Marjorie Berthouzoz
Sarah Humbert
Sofia Mangili
Stephan Waeber
Thierry Blanchard

Bachelor students
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Research Assistant
Thelma Barbará


Lab alumni
Nicholas Fasel (research assistant)
Ludwika Sygnarski (research assistant)
Amandine Ruffieux (Research assistant)
Leonardo Versieux* (PhD Student)
Clarisse Palma-Silva (Post-Doc)
Fabio Pinheiro* (PhD student)
Nicholas Fasel (Bachelor student)
Marcela van Loo (Post-Doc)
Leonie Suter (Master student)
Claudio Sedivy (Internship student)
Gecele Paggi (KLARF student)

*co-supervised in collaboration with other institutions
2013 Bachelor projects


1. Climate as a driver of genetic divergence in an African biodiversity ‘hotspot’?

2. Genetic signature of ice age refugia on alpine mountain tops?

3.
Species cohesion in interconnected species of tropical stone oaks?



Collaborators

Alex Buerkle, University of Wyoming, USA
Felix Forest, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Don Kirkup, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Gail Taylor, University of Southampton, UK
Alex Widmer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Salvatore Cozzolino, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Berthold Heinze, Federal Research Centre for Forests, Austria
Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez, INIA Madrid, Spain
Pelle Ingvarsson, UPSC Umea, Sweden
Stefano Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy
Denes Bartha, West Hungarian University of Sopron, Hungary
Simon Hiscock, University of Bristol, UK
Loren Rieseberg, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Zhao Lai, Indiana University, USA
Gustavo Martinelli, Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tania Wendt, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fernanda Bered, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Marcela van Loo, University of Vienna, Austria, and RBG Kew, UK
Dulcineia de Carvalho, University of Lavras, Brazil
Yamama Naciri, Geneva Botanical Garden, Switzerland
Nicolas Salamin, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Peter Pearman, WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Christian Rixen, WSL Davos, Switzerland
Mark van Kleunen, University of Konstanz, Germany
Sophie Karrenberg, Uppsala University, Sweden
Leonardo Versieux, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Chuck Cannon, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, China
Tony Rebelo, SANBI, South Africa

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Last update: March 2012