Our main research interests are
- Evolution and structure of the nuclear genomes of dinoflagellate protists
- Biology and evolution of apicomplexan parasites
- Evolution of eukaryotic organelles of endosymbiotic origin (mitochondria and chloroplasts)
- Genomics of Haplosporidia
Collaborations
We are also working in collaboration with these people:
Andrew Roger (Dalhousie), Mary Beth Saffo and Christopher Lane (University of Rhode Island), Claire Gachon (Scottish Marine Institute), Sonia Wirtz, (University of Buenos Aires), Santiago Mora-García (IIB, Buenos Aires), Antonio Uttaro and Sebastián Najle (IBR Rosario, Argentina)
On these topics:
- Mutualistic Apicomplexas (Saffo/Lane)
- Mitochondrial evolution (Roger)
- Oomycete evolution (Claire Gachon)
- Sonia Wirtz/Leo Majul (Genomics of fungi)
- Evolution and function of Ser/Thr Phosphatases in plants, algae and apicomplexan parasites (Mora-García)
- Sterol metabolism in the ciliate Tetrahymena (Uttaro/Najle)