2021-: Researcher. Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
2017-November 2021: Postdoc. Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
2017-November 2019: Visiting postdoc, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. During this period, I was employed by SLU and stationed at the Roslin Institute for 32 months.
2016-February 2017: Postdoc, IFM Biology, Linköping University.
2023: Docent (associate professor) in Animal Science with specialisation in Quantitative Genetics and Genomics.
2011-2015: PhD student in Genetics, IFM Biology, Linköping University.
Thesis topic: Genomics of chicken domestication and feralisation
Supervisor: Dominic Wright
2010: Research assistant, IFM Biology, Linköping University
2010: MSc in Engineering Biology, Linköping University
2024-2026: Beijer researcher in precision livestock breeding, Beijer Laboratory of Animal Science.
2023-2027: Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. Using the power of functional genomics and genetics to reduce keel bone damage. Participating researcher in SLU work package. Main applicant: Ian Dunn, Roslin Institute, Scotland.
2023: GenoAvel - Genomisk selektion för mer produktiv röding i Sverige. Jordbruksverket. Participating researcher. Main applicant: Christos Palaiokostas, SLU.
2023: Genetiska orsaker till könsorganshypoplasi hos fjällkor. Stiftelsen Seydlitz MP bolagen. Co-applicant. Main applicant: Anna Maria Johansson.
2023: Revealing the genetic causes of growth and body size in layer chickens with whole-genome imputation and integrative genomics. Erik Philip-Sörensens Stiftelse. Main applicant.
2023-2025: EpiBreedCharr - Epigenetic powered breeding in farmed Arctic charr. Formas starting grant. Co-applicant. Main applicant: Christos Palaiokostas.
2023-2025: From sensitive to robust athlete – exploring the opportunities of genomic selection to help dairy cows cope with increasing temperatures. Formas starting grant. Co-applicant. Main applicant: Lena-Mari Tamminen.
2022-2025: Breedmaps - Breed specific mapping of bovine genomes for improved productivity. Formas starting grant. Co-applicant. Main applicant: Tomas Klingström.
2021-2024: Genome dynamics in livestock breeding: how the features of the genome affect breeding. Formas starting grant. Main applicant.
2017-2020: The genetic basis of quantitative traits in pigs and chickens. Formas mobility starting grant for young researchers.
2023: “The effect of population history, mutation and recombination on genomic selection”, European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) Annual Meeting, Lyon. Talk.
2023: “The big challenge for livestock genomics is to make sequence data pay”. Computational Genetics Discussion Group, Roslin Institute, UK (virtually). Talk.
2023: “The genome dynamics of livestock breeding project”, Nordic RD workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark. Talk.
2022: “The effect of recombination rate on breeding”. Invited talk at NBMU, Ås, Norway.
2022: “The effect of recombination rate on genomic selection in simulation”, Word Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Talk.
2022: “Problematizing selection mapping from an animal science perspective”, ASAS-CSAS Annual Meeting, Oklahoma, US. Invited talk.
2020: “Genetics of recombination rate variation in the pig”, The Allied Genetics Conference Online. Digital poster.
2019: “Prediction deleterious variants in the pig”, A Century of Genetics, Edinburgh, UK. Poster.
2019: “Predicting deleterious variants in the pig”, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Turku, Finland. Poster.
2019: “Predicting deleterious variants in the pig”, International Society for Animal Genetics, Lleida, Spain. Poster.
2019: “Genomics in animal breeding from the perspective of matrices and molecules”, Approaches to genetics for livestock research symposium, Edinburgh, UK. Talk.
2019: “Predicting deleterious variants in the pig”, Edinburgh Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics, Edinburgh, UK. Talk.
2018: “Ideas for future animal breeding”, National Swine Improvement Federation, Nashville, US. Invited talk.
2018: “Predicting deleterious sequence variants in the pig”, World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Auckland, New Zealand. Talk.
2018: “Predicting deleterious sequence variants”, workshop on The potential of genomics on animal production and health research to promote food security, reduce food poverty and mitigate the environmental impact, Tetatiplan and Guadalajara, Mexico. Talk.
2018: “Simulating genetic data in R: an example with deleterious variants”, EdinbR: The Edinburgh R User Group, Edinburgh, UK. Talk.
2017: “Genetical genomics of domestication in a wild by domestic chicken intercross”, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Groningen, Netherlands. Poster.
2016: “Genomics of feralisation and admixture in the chicken”, Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop, Linköping, Sweden. Talk.
2016: “Genetical genomics of domestication traits in the chicken”, Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseille, Marseille, France. Talk.
2016: “Genetical genomics of chicken domestication traits”, Evolution in Sweden 2016, Lund, Sweden. Poster.
2015: “Signatures of selection in an admixed feral chicken population”, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Lausanne, Switzerland. Talk.
2015: “Genetical genomics of fearful behaviours under chicken domestication”, International Behavior and Neural Genetics Society, Uppsala, Sweden. Poster.
2014: “Quantitative trait genes for open field behaviour under chicken domestication”, Evolution in Sweden 2014, Uppsala, Sweden. Poster.
2014: “Genetical genomics of chicken comb size and pleiotropy with bone allocation”, Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseille, Marseille, France. Talk.
2013: “Quantitative trait genes for fearful behaviour in an intercross of wild and domestic chickens”, Genetics of Adaptation, Uppsala, Sweden. Poster.
2013: “Quantitative trait genes for fearful behaviour under chicken domestication”, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Lisbon, Portugal. Poster.
2012: “QTL mapping of behaviour and gene expression in an advanced intercross of wild and domestic chickens”, International Conference of Quantitative Genetics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Poster.
2011: “Behavioural QTL and brain eQTL mapping in an intercross of wild and domestic chickens”, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Tübingen, Germany. Poster.
Genetics Society. 2018-
American Genetics Society. 2019-
International Society for Animal Genetics. 2021-
European Federation of Animal Science: EAAP. Individual member. 2023-
World’s Poultry Science Association Sverige. 2023-
2021: Data-Driven Breeding and Genetics course, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh. “Day 5 - Population and Quantitative Genetics for Breeding”. Lectures.
2021: The Nordic Forestry, Veterinary and Agricultural University Network course Quantitative genetics, 6 ECTS. “Discovery and characterization of mutations in sequencing data”. Talk.
2020: ChickenStress Genomics and Bioinformatics Workshop. “Genetic mapping of behaviour and gene expression in the chicken.” Talk.
2018: University of Zagreb
“Modern plant and animal applied genomics driven by genotype and
sequence data”, lectures and practical on working with genome
annotation, predicting deleterious variants, and the theory of
deleterious load.
2017: Linköping University
Scripting for Data Analysis (with R), PhD course, 1 credit, which I
designed and was responsible for.
2016: Linköping University
Introduction to R, seminars in PhD course.
2022: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Animalieproduktion – akvakultur, fjäderfä och gris, exercises on pig
genetics
Scientific approach, supervision of writing projects
Clinical Genomics in Veterinary Medicine, lecture and exercise on
population genetics
2021: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Genome Analysis (lectures and exercise on genetic mapping), Animal
Biology 2 – the cell (genetics exercise), Population Medicine (lectures
and exercises on population and quantitative genetics). Animal Genetics
– Health Behaviour and Welfare, supervision of writing project.
2020: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Genome Analysis (lectures and exercise on genetic mapping), Animal
Biology 2 – the cell (genetics exercise), Population Medicine
(quantitative genetics exercises). Animal Genetics – Health Behaviour
and Welfare, supervision of writing project.
2019-2021: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Basic Medical Biology (genetics exercises). Animal Genetics – Health
Behaviour and Welfare, supervision of writing project
2011-2016: Linköping University
Cell biology, laboratory course and lectures (cell structure,
microscopy, basic cell biology concepts, and laboratory practices). (390
hours) Molecular genetics, laboratory course (DNA isolation, PCR, gel
elecrophoresis, transformation). (300 hours)
Gene expression analysis, laboratory course (RNA isolation, quantitative
real time PCR, Northern blot). (110 hours)
Communicating science, seminars and graduation symposium (poster and
oral presentations, scheduling of reviewer sessions, organization of
symposum). (400 hours)
Ethology, lectures on behaviour genetics (19 hours)
2022: Supervisor for MSc project of Julia Hinken.
2022: Supervisor for MSc project of Dolapo Adepoju.
2021-: Co-supervisor for PhD student Sallam Mohammed Abdallah.
2020: Supervisor for MSc project of Gabriela Marfa Fortuna.
2020-2021: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Course in doctoral supervision, 3 weeks
Teaching in higher education, step two, 2 weeks
Betygskurs (course in grading and assessment), 2 days
Introduktion till forskningsanknuten undervisning (introduction to the
research-teaching nexus), 3 days
Examinationsformer (course on examination formats), 1 week
Educating for critical thinking and criticality, 2 weeks
Pedagogisk meritportfölj (pedagogical portfolio course), 1 week
Teaching Active E-learning (3 days)
2015: Linköping University
Science Education for Doctoral Students, 3 credits
Basic management of research projects, 1.5 credits
2022: Reviewed a grant application for the German Research Foundation (DFG).
2022: Reviewed two grant applications for the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
2021-: Member of the scientific committee of the Centre for Reproductive Biology in Uppsala (CRU).
2020: Review panel member Swedish Research Council, NT-12 Ecology, systematics and evolution.
2018: Member of the scientific committee of the Big Data in Agriculture symposium, May 14-15, The Roslin Institute.
2017: Reviewed for Peerage of Science. Awarded Peerage of Science Reviewer Prize 2017.
2016-: Reviewed papers for scientific journals including G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics, Genetics Selection Evolution, PLOS Genetics, Journal of Dairy Science, GigaScience, Frontiers in Genetics, Nature Communications, Journal of Dairy Science, BMC Genomics, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Genome Biology and Evolution, Animal biology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Animal Genetics, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
2020: Participated in March I'm A Scientist, online engagement activity for UK schools, in the Food Zone.
2019: Exhibition at Roslin Institute tent at the Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh.
2018: Exhibition at fair during Roslin Institute Campus Open Day.
2018: Talked to four school classes about livestock genomics and animal breeding through the Skype a Scientist program.
2018: Ran an activity in the at Roslin Institute tent at the Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh.
2017: Exhibition at fair during Roslin Institute Campus Open Day.
2016: During one week, curated the rotating Twitter account @biotweeps.
2015: During one week, curated the rotating Twitter account @sweden, run by the Swedish Institute, wrote about and answered questions about genetics, evolution, and life as a PhD student.
2015: Spoke at Linköping University Library popular science lecture series, "Fängslande forskning".
2011-2016: Exhibition at fair, Populärvetenskapliga veckan, Linköping University, presenting PhD project.