Research Skills

Wet lab
• DNA extraction techniques from tissue, saliva and bulk DNA
• Primerdesign, PCR, Gel electrophoresis, Tapestation, Bioanalyzer, Qsep
• NGS library construction
• Sanger sequencing and NGS
• Lab cultivation of zooplankton species (Rotifers)
• Morphological species determination of zooplankton species

Dry lab
• Basic scripting using programming languages: R, bash, python
• NGS data analysis: FASTP, cutadapt, STACKS, BWA, freebayes, BLAST, bcftools, vcftools, SAMtools, plink
• Population genetic analyses: RaxML, MrBayes, Geneious, Arlequin, PAUP, STRUCTURE, Admixture, PopArt, plink, R
• Landscape genetic analyses: R
• Metacommunity/community ecology analyses: R
• Statistical analyses based on parametric and non-parametric tests: R