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Professor Andrea Betancourt

Professor of Evolutionary Genetics Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour

    Research

    Research Grants

    The structure and function of nematode pathogenicity islands

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    July 2023 - June 2026

    Long read sequencing from low input DNA/RNA samples

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    July 2020 - July 2021

    Recurrent adaptation to industrial pollution: ancestral diversity and ecological succession

    NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

    November 2019 - September 2024

    The evolutionary genetics of transposable element invasions (TE_INVASION)

    EUROPEAN COMMISSION

    May 2019 - April 2026

    The genetic basis of reproductive isolation through intragenomic conflict

    NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

    April 2019 - February 2023

    Establishment of P-element silencing in Drosophila simulans dysgenic males

    EUROPEAN COMMISSION

    January 2019 - April 2021

    Selective Impact of Transposable Elements in Drosophila melanogaster

    BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

    May 2017 - January 2021

    The semnation reaction in Drosophila on the front line in the battle between the sexes

    ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

    March 2017 - March 2018

    Population genetics of piRNAs in Drosophila

    FWF AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND (AUSTRIA)

    July 2014 - June 2019