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Name Yann Bourgeois
Label Researcher at the French National Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD). Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (2025)
Email yann.bourgeois@ird.fr
Phone (33) 4 67 41 63 80
Url https://YannBourgeois.github.io
Summary A molecular ecologist interested in the dynamics of Transposable Elements and conservation

Work

  • 2022.01 - Present
    Chargé de Recherches (Permanent Researcher)
    French National Institute of Research for Sustainable Development
    Permanent resercher at IRD, I focus on date palm genomics and transposable elements
    • Date palm and transposons
  • 2020.01 - 2022.12
    Lecturer in Bioinformatics (Permanent position)
    University of Portsmouth
    Lecturer in the UK, I start developing projects on transposons and conservation genomics
    • Lectures and genomics
  • 2016.09 - 2019.12
    Post-doctoral Researcher
    New-York University Abu Dhabi
    I develop my expertise in population genetics, with an increasing focus on the population dynamics of transposons
    • Ethiopia, population genomics
  • 2013.09 - 2016.08
    Post-doctoral Researcher
    University of Basel
    My first project dealing with whole genome resequencing data, I focus on the dynamics of host-parasite interaction in the crustacean Daphnia magna
    • Red Queen dynamics, population genomics
  • 2009.09 - 2013.08
    PhD student
    University of Toulouse
    During my PhD, I investigated the genetic bases of colour variation in an endemic passerine from Réunion
    • Réunion island, population genomics, speciation

Education

  • 2006.09 - 2009.08

    Lyon, France

    Master
    Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
    Molecular Biology
    • Molecular and Cell Biology, Evo-Devo, Virology, Biostatistics

Languages

French
Native speaker
English
Fluent
German
Intermediate (B1)
Romanian
Beginner (A2)

Interests

Evolutionary Biology
Transposable elements
Conservation genetics
Host-parasite coevolution