Margherita Colucci

Overview:

I am a visiting postdoctoral researcher in the Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, and postdoctoral researcher in the Pan-African Evolution Research Group (Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology):

- Studying human local adaptation using bioinformatic models to reconstruct evolution of traits under selection (e.g. migraine, malaria spread/resistance), integrating past climate, environment, human demographies and genetics;

- Focusing on tools and methods to determine biogeographical ancestry, phenotypes and kinship estimates from DNA data for both genealogical and forensic applications.

Links:

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margherita-colucci-8a3b56127

- Pan-Ev: https://www.shh.mpg.de/person/123019/1143811

- The Genetics Society: https://genetics.org.uk/our-journals/newsletters/

- UoL: https://le.ac.uk/forensic-science/alec-jeffreys-forensic-genomics-unit

Research

Keywords

Population genetics, Bioinformatics, Local adaptation, Kinship and Ancestry determination.

Publications

Key publications:

Kjelgaard Brustad, H., Colucci, M., Jobling, M.A., Sheehan, N., and Egeland, T. (2021) Strategies of pairwise searches in forensic kinship analysis. Forensic Sci. Internat. Genet. 54 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102562)

Other publications:

https://genetics.org.uk/our-journals/newsletters/

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching:

NST Part II BBS Bioinformatics (Sequence alignement) teaching assistant - University of Cambridge (2022)

Other Professional Activities

Committee member, Newsletter Editor at The Genetics Society (UK)
Ancestry DNA testing company “DNA Worldwide group” (Frome, UK)
Affiliate member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, International Society for Forensic Genetics

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