@c-lacroix.bsky.social

Claudia Lacroix is a PhD student at the University of Agder 🇳🇴 developing #bioacoustics tools to study reproductive #behaviour of 2 sympatric #AtlanticCod populations

She utilises #AI tools to investigate #ecoevo drivers of acoustic communication & signal variation on naturally selected behaviours

@irisvalle.bsky.social

Researcher standing next to a freshly caught Atlantic bluefin tuna at a wharf

Researcher sitting in a genetics la, using a multi-channel pipette to transfer DNA to new tubes

Researcher in a genetics lab, preparing to cut 96 samples of tuna muscle tissue for DNA extraction

Iris Jia (Valle) is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick Saint John 🇨🇦 exploring #genomic differences in #AtlanticBluefinTuna populations.

She uses recently developed tools like #haplotagging to investigate how #genes are affecting recovery and migratory behavior.

Remy Durocher is an MSc student at the University of New Brunswick Saint John 🇨🇦

Her research focuses on population genomics of adaptive variation in supergenes of Atlantic cod. She is developing DNA primers that target four megascale chromosomal inversions within the cod genome.

PhD student Simon Henriksson looking into a microscope, counting cod eggs.

An adult Atlantic cod, swimming in a saltwater pond at the Flødevigen research station, Arendal, Norway.

A microscope image of an Atlantic cod egg, in developmental stage 4.

Simon Henriksson is a PhD student at the Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪
His research focuses on two Atlantic cod ecotypes in Scandinavian waters, and the eco-evolutionary mechanisms that maintain them as genetically distinct units.

Four lab members next to a large Atlantic bluefin tuna

Four lab members in a boat on a semi-frozen pond

Five lab members wearing lab coats in a genetics lab

We use interdisciplinary experimental, genomic, and modeling approaches to understand how genome structure influences phenotypic responses to changing environments and vice versa.

Our research focuses on natural populations of two transatlantic fishes: Atlantic cod and Atlantic bluefin tuna 🐟