Subject Area
Biological Oceanography
Marine Ecology
Activities
- Evolution of marine species
- Marine ecology
- Population genetics / Phylogeography / Phylogeny
- Reproduction cycle
- Characterization of cryptic species
Skills
- Molecular Biology: PCR, RACE, IPCR, vectorette, electrophoresis, DNA & RNA extraction, cloning, cDNA synthesis, RFLP, microsatellites analysis, sequencing
- Flow Cytometry, DNA contain measurement, karyotyping
- Histology
- Morphometry
- Taxonomical identification, Biodiversity characterization,
- Sampling techniques (Ninskin bottle, Plankton nets (WP2, IOSN), dredge, trawl, grab sampler, core drilling)
- aquarium maintenance
- ADCP, CTD
- Phylogeography & population genetics analysis; Maximum Likelihood & Bayesian Methods; software for sequence analysis (Bioedit, Mega, Arlequin, TCS, Network, DnaSP, Modeltest, PhyML, MrBayes, SeqState, PAML, BEAST) & fragment length analysis (STRand, Genemapper, Genetix, Genepop, structure).
- Statistics: notions on Statistica & R.
- Office: Microsoft (word, excel, xlstat, powerpoint, access),
Illustrator, HTML code (notions).