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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This has been so overdue. I started to work on cod when I moved to @CEESUiO in 2013 but never finished this project until now. Here it is: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.28.433253v1 Cod has four massive supergenes that are all based on inversions. 1/6
I just crossed paths with the running pangolin, running for #WorldPangolinDay!
Tomorrow is World Pangolin Day & we are super proud of our PhD student @CEmogor who will be running around Cambridge for 8 hrs in a pangolin suit to raise awareness & funds for this threatened species. Give him a 👋if you see him! Or donate here: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/runforpangolins #WPD2021
Okay, I admit it. I'm hitting a wall. Feel like I'm constantly apologizing for things I haven't done or got done late. Gotta keep taking care of others. Would love crowdsourced advice on tricks for staying positive while drowning in to-dos. Silly pet pix also welcome.
