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Jelmer Poelstra

Postdoc in Evolutionary Genomics

Duke University

I am a computational evolutionary biologist, currently using genomic data to study diversification of Madagascar's mouse lemurs in Anne Yoder's lab at Duke University. Previously, I've worked on sympatric speciation and admixture in Cameroon crater lake cichlids, and on coloration genetics and speciation genomics in European crows. See my Research and Publications pages for more details.

In my free time, I like to head outside to play soccer and most of all to go birding — locally and all across the world (see my Birding page).

Interests

  • Speciation
  • Population genetics and genomics
  • Demographic modeling, admixture
  • Scripting in bash, R, and Python
  • Data visualization
  • Birding

Education

  • PhD in Evolutionary Genetics

    Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

  • MSc in Evolutionary Biology

    Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

  • BSc in Biology

    Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands