Javier Tabima |
I'm a Colombian evolutionary biologist and fungal geneticist.
I'm a postdoctoral scholar interested in identifying the patterns of genomic evolution of fungal and oomycete species and populations. Mainly, my goal is to evaluate the evolution of fungal genomes as consequence of the interactions of selection/adaptation, drift, gene flow and recombination, with an emphasis on host adaptation in fungal plant pathogens. I use a multidisciplinary approach of integrating tools and concepts from evolutionary theory, computational biology, genomics, genetics and plant pathology/mycology in order to study these phenomena, as well as to create computational and molecular tools for the rapid identification of species, populations, genes of interest and molecular patterns of fungal evolution. |