Dr.

Alejandro Raul Burga Ramos

Alejandro Raul Burga Ramos

Member of the Young Academy since 2022

  • Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Research Areas:

  • Biology
  • Evolutionary research
  • Genetics
  • Genomics
  • Molecular biology
  • Population genetics

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Selected Prizes:

  • ERC Starting Grant
  • Jane Coffin Childs Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Gordon Lark Speaker
  • Extraordinary Thesis Prize – Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Selected Publications:

  • Burga, A., Wang, W., Ben-David, E., Wolf, P.C., Ramey, A.M., Verdugo, C., Lyons, K., Parker, P.G., Kruglyak, L., 2017. A genetic signature ofthe evolution ofloss offlight in the Galapagos cormorant. Science 356, eaal3345. https://doi/10.1126/science.aal3345.
  • Ben-David, E.°, Burga. A.°, Kruglyak, L., 2017. A maternal effect selfish genetic element in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 356, 1051–1055. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan0621.
  • Burga, A., Casanueva, M.O., Lehner, 8., 2011. Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interaction partners. Nature 480, 250–253. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10665.
  • Ben-David, E., Pliota, P., Widen, S.A., Koreshova, A., Lemus-Vergara, T., Verpukhovskiy, P., Mandali, S., Braendle, C., Burga, A.°, and Kruglyak, L.° (2021). Ubiquitous selfish toxinantidoteelements in Caenorhabditis species. Current Biology (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.013.
  • Burga, A.°, Ben-David, E.°, Vergara, T.L., Boocock, J., Kruglyak, L., 2019. Fast genetic mapping of complex traits in C. elegans using millions of individuals in bulk. Nature Communications 10, 2680. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10636-9.

° These authors contributed equally.