Post-doctoral position at UAB (Departament de Biologia Vegetal, Biologia Animal i Ecologia, BABVE) and CREAF
mail: mariona.ferrandiz@uab.cat
tel. : +34 93 581 27 68 Office: C5b/058
Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) Edifici C
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Catalonia)
The conservation of biodiversity is a major concern of international governments. While the three levels of biodiversity (ecosystems, species and genes) have long been described, it was not until 2010 that a focus was placed on genetic diversity. Indeed, it represents the true potential of adaptation and evolution of species.
The aim of my PhD thesis (carried out at Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) was to understand the causes and consequences of genetic diversity in natural populations. To do it, I took advantage of a long-term (25 years) capture-mark-recapture program of a wild population of Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota) in La Sassière (Alps).
Since 2015 I have a postdoctoral position in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I teach (see teaching dossier) in Environmental Biology and Environmental Sciences Bachelor’s degrees and I carry out my research at CREAF, where I take part of a second long-term (10 years) capture-mark-recapture program of a introduced wild population of Alpine marmots in La Cerdanya (Pyrenees). I am particularly interested in understanding the differences between native and introduced populations regarding their population dynamics, population genetics and behaviour. In CREAF I also work with edible dormouse (Glis glis), wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), Herman’s tortoise (Testudo hermanni) and Jackdows (Corvus monedula). My main objectives with these species are to contribute to enhance actual debates in evolutionary ecology.
Acreditations
2020 Profesora Contratada Doctora (PCD: 2019-10876). Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA), Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
2020 Profesora de Universidad Privada (PUP: 2019-10877). ANECA, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
2017 Profesora Ayudante Doctora (PAD: 2017-2344). ANECA, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
2017 Formació Docent en Educació Superior (FDES)
Training courses and diplomas
2018 Postgraduate course: Introduction to next generation sequencing: applications in ecology and evolution. Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 3 ECTS.
2014 Spring school “Landscape genetics in transition to landscape genomics: challenges and opportunities to explore NGS data in a spatially explicit context” in the University Residential Center of Bertinoro (Italy). ConGenOmics – ESF Research network program
2012 Workshop “Analysis of capture-recapture data: Modelling individual histories with state uncertainty” at CEFE in Montpellier (France)
2012 Diploma number R45GRETAF110 for the authorization for experimentation with animals by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at Greta Loiret in Paris (France).
Publications and conferences
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Mariona Ferrandiz 