Evolutionary Genetics - EG
Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics

Gonçalo Caneira

MSc Student

I received my bachelor’s degree in Biology from the university of Lisbon in 2019. Currently I am enrolled on the Evolutionary and Developmental Biology MSc and I am doing my thesis under the supervision of Vítor Sousa (EG - cE3c). I am working with simulations and data from populations of both sawflies (Neodiprion lecontei and Neodiprion pinetum) and threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). My aim is to: 1) predict the interaction between divergent selection and deleterious mutations (simulations) and 2) test if there is evidence for those interactions by using population genomics data from natural diploid (threespine sticklebacks) and haplodiploid (sawflies) populations.