Population genetics, Evolutionary genetics, Human evolutionary genetics, Ancient DNA, Biostatistics
Short description of the research team
Thematic fields of interest/research areas: Population genetics, Evolutionary genetics, Human evolutionary genetics, Ancient DNA, Biostatistics
Manager/head of the team: Guido Barbujani (professor of Genetics)
Team members:
- Giorgio Bertorelle (associate professor of Genetics)
- Silvia Fuselli (assistant professor of Genetics)
- Silvia Ghirotto (post-doc research scientist)
- Sean Hoban (post-doc research scientist)
- Francesca Tassi (graduate student)
- Sibelle Vilaça (graduate student)
- Luca Cornetti (graduate student)
- Andrea Benazzo (technician)
Research infrastructures: Two 7500 Real Time PCR Systems (Applied Biosystem), quantitative real time PCR systems (qRT-PCR); High Performance Computing (HPC) System of the Population Genetics group, composed by 80 cores and 88 GB of RAM; the storage capacity is 2.5 TB
Prerequisites of the trainee researcher:
Level of education: M.A. or Ph.D. in Biology or Biological Anthropology or Statistics
Research experience: N/A
Required working language: English
Further required requisites: Basic computer skills, a good background in genetics or statistics
Further useful information on the group activities can be found at these sites:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333990/title/News_in_Brief_Humans
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7254/full/460439d.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2008/07/16-01.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/health/03iht-snetrus.1.5127788.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/science/social/16TOOT.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fe20011018rh.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1600751.stm
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