Sacha Laurent
Research interests
I am currently working on the modeling of speciation and extinction events, relating them with changes at the genomic scale. In particular, I am studying the impact of whole-genome duplication events in fishes and plants on the speciation and extinction rates of the species.
Curriculum vitae
2011-
PhD student at Marc Robinson-Rechavi and Nicolas Salamin groups, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, subject : Modeling genomes and the origin of species
Early 2011
Master thesis at Structural Bioinformatics Group, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, subject : Construction of a psychrophilic protein structure database
Fall 2010
Exchange program at Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summer 2010
Internship at LBBE (Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive) in the Bioinformatics and Genomic Evolution team, subject : Phylogeny of completely sequenced genomes
2008-2011
Studies in bioinformatics and modeling sciences at INSA de Lyon-Section BIM
2006-2008
Studies in general science at the engineering school INSA de Lyon (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées)
Office room: 3220
Phone: +41 21 692 4221
Fax: +4121 692 4165
Sacha.Laurent[@]unil.ch
Member of
Robinson-Rechavi group
Member of
Salamin group
