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Lila Maladesky

Doctoral student

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My main interest in Biology are sex chromosomes and the evolution of genes connected to sex determination. I want to understand the dynamics of this particular region of the genome in a broader phylogenetic perspective. 

For my PhD, I am studying sex determination in Hawaiian plant species of genus Wikstroemia. More specifically, their genetic basis and evolution.

 

Short biography

I am originally from Argentina, where I studied Biology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). During my time there, I worked on cytogenetics of New World Monkeys and became first interested in sex chromosomes.

After graduating, I moved to Europe with a scholarship to study in the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME). As part of the programme, I studied and worked both in France and Sweden. In Montpellier, France, I worked on evolutionary strata of the sex chromosomes of Asian Artemia sp. In Uppsala, Sweden, I worked on the X chromosome of different species of seed beetles.

I moved to Lund in mid-2024 to start my PhD on the Genetic Basis of Sex Determination in the Hawaiian Wikstroemia.

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Genetics and Genomics
  • Botany

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