Alejandro Raul Burga Ramos
Member of the Young Academy since 2022
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Contact:
Alejandro.burga(at)imba.oeaw.ac.at
Research Areas:
- Biology
- Evolutionary research
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Molecular biology
- Population genetics
Profile:
Publications:
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.