Eugenio López-Cortegano

Eugenio López-Cortegano

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Edinburgh

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. My main research interest is to better understand the evolution of populations of small effective size, under forces such as drift, selection and mutation, using both quantitative and genomic approaches. Specifically, I want to study the evolution and architecture of the mutational load under inbreeding, and how evolutionary forces shape diversity and survivability in small populations.

During my PhD and following postdoc, I have used both computational and experimental approaches to study processes like inbreeding depression and genetic purging, as well as management strategies for fragmented populations. Currently, I am using genomic data to study the nature and evolution of de novo mutations and structural variation. My aim is to combine all this learnt knowledge to pursue my own research projects.

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Interests
  • Population and Quantitative genetics
  • Genome architecture
  • Evolutionary theory
  • Conservation genetics
  • Computational biology
Education
  • PhD in Population Genetics, 2017

    Complutense University of Madrid

  • MSc in Agroforestal Biotechnology, 2012

    Technical University of Madrid

  • BSc in Biology, 2011

    Complutense University of Madrid

Software

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purgeR

purgeR

Estimation of inbreeding-purging genetic parameters in pedigreed populations.

GWEHS

GWEHS

A genome-wide effect sizes and heritability screener using data from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.

Metapop2

Metapop2

Analysis of gene and allelic diversity in subdivided populations, as well as a tool for management in conservation programs.

PURGd

PURGd

A software to detect purging and to estimate inbreeding-purging genetic parameters in pedigreed populations.