Our team applies genetic and genomic methods as a tool to enable a better understanding and management of natural populations, particularly with regard to biodiversity conservation, population dynamics and invasive species management in a wide variety of freshwater species.

We are investigating the evolution of interspecific interactions, biodiversity and ecological communities of freshwaters under anthropogenic influence. One of our main focuses is to study evolutionary and ecological processes mediated by parasitism and host-pathogen coevolution in aquatic ecosystems. We are also investigating the functional consequences of evolutionary changes at different biological levels, from cell to organism to ecosystems.

Our research focuses mainly on freshwater crayfish and the european pond turtle.