Amin Ghane
PhD student
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I completed my undergraduate studies in Marine Biology and later pursued a master's degree in Marine Environment and Resources (MER+) through the Erasmus Mundus program in four European universities. For my master's thesis, I worked on the evolution of sex-associated genomic variation of Littorina saxatilis (rough periwinkle) at the University of Gothenburg with Roger Butlin and Kerstin Johannesson. Following this, I joined the Barton group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) as a scientific intern, continuing my MSc thesis project.
In September 2023 I joined the Plant Ecological Genomics group, and I embarked on my PhD on the role of structural variation in the adaptive radiation of the persimmon tree (Diospyros) in the New Caledonia archipelago. In this project, I am investigating the genomic architecture behind Diospyros' diversification and how genomic variation has driven the speciation, adaptation, and radiation of Diospyros.
Biographical information
since Sept 2023: PhD student, University of Vienna and Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, Austria. Project title: The role of structural variation in the adaptive radiation of persimmon trees (Diospyros) in New Caledonia.
2022-2023: scientific intern, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Vienna, Austria.
2020-2022: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Marine Environment and Resources (MER+), University of Bordeaux (FR), University of the Basque Country (SP), University of Liège (BE), University of Gothenburg (SE). MSc thesis: "Sex-associated genomic variation in two ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis on the Swedish coast".
2015-2019: BSc. in Marine Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran.
Awards / Third-party funding
2022: Professor Michael B. Collins Award for the best MSc thesis presentation in Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree of Marine Environment and Resources (MER+).
2020-2022: Fully funded EM+ Scholarship for an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) in Marine Environment and Resources (MER+).
Publications
Reeve J, Ghane A, Barry P, Balmori-de la Puente A, Butlin RK, Choo LQ, Le Moan A, Castillo D G, Tamayo A-MP, Kingston S, Leder E, Stankowski S. 2023. A standard pipeline for processing short-reads sequencing data from Littorina snails. protocols.io.
Conference contributions
Ghane A, Johannesson K, Butlin R. 2022. Sex-associated genomic variation in two ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis on the Swedish West Coast. ESEB 2022. Prague, Czech Republic, 14-19 Aug 2022 [poster presentation].
Ghane A, Barton NH, Reeve J, Johannesson K, Butlin R, Westram A. 2023. Sex-linked genomic variation in various populations of Littorina saxatilis. ISOLBE XIII. Vila do Conde, Portugal, 24-27 July 2023 [oral presentation].