Wiesław Babik (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Speaker: Prof. Wiesław Babik (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Talk: History of divergence and gene flow in hybridizing newts
Time: Sunday 14th July 2013, 13:45
Venue: Biotechnology Summer School 2013, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Kładki 24
Category: Invited lecture during Biotechnology Summer School
Wiesław Babik, biographical note
Wiesław Babik is an associate professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He received his PhD in 2004, and worked as a postdoc in the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Halle (Germany) and the Imperial College of London. He uses information from contemporary DNA sequences to infer history of populations. In particular he is interested in the causes, demography and the age of intraspecific differentiation, as well as in studying the extent of gene flow between diverging populations. He also studies variation of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) genes in natural populations, with special emphasis on the effects of natural selection and genetic drift on the patterns of variation at the molecular level. He is an associate editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.