Dr Iliana Bista, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alumni
This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.
I am working on the Vertebrates Genomes Project (VGP) and Darwin Tree of Life at the Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge, sequencing reference quality genomes across vertebrate species with particular focus on fish. Additionally I am investigating the genome evolution of the Antarctic Notothenioid fish radiation.
Past and continuous activities involve exploring biodiversity of freshwater and marine ecosystems using High Throughput Sequencing applications like metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDNA) and metagenomics.
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Did you know that the #VGP aims to sequence all 71,657 named vertebrate species? Excited for this special issue (including work from our @ilianaBista )! https://twitter.com/SangerVGP/status/1387465594296053761
Today we are celebrating the official release @nature of the special issue on the #VGP project. Thanks to all combined efforts by @genomeark @mpicbg @SangerToL @SangerVGP @Genome10K @bat1kgenomes @EBPgenome and many others
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-021-00001-6/index.html
Spatiotemporal resolution of biodiversity in Welsh river through eDNA with @MatSeymour and team @MEFGL @SiCreerProf, mark debruyn, Gary Carvalho, @Dr_H_Glanville, et al. #edna #metabarcoding #biodiversity
@MatSeymour @ilianaBista et al. compared eDNA with traditional biodiversity metrics in a Wales river basin, finding that eDNA generated greater biodiversity resolution and reliably detect spatio-temporal changes in community & functional diversity.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02031-2
New preprint on domestication of fighting fish Betta splendens with new reference genome assembly from @SangerVGP @genomeark #fishgenomics
Happy to share a new preprint from the lab on the genetics of domestication of betta fish, one of the most popular pet fish. A fun collaboration with @HannesSvardal and @richard_durbin labs, with many others, led by the wonderful Young Mi Kwon. 🧵 1/13
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.29.442030v1