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Doris Bachtrog

Doris Bachtrog PhD, MSc

Genetics
Berkeley, California, United States of America

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Dr. Doris Bachtrog, is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centers on a broad range of topics in functional evolutionary genomics. Ongoing research includes Investigating the causes of Y chromosome degeneration. She Studying the evolution of gene expression and dosage compensation in Drosophila and the formation of heterochromatin on evolving Y chromosomes. Comparative genomics in Diptera species, the evolution of chromatin structure in Drosophila. Investigating modes of speciation in several Drosophila species. the evolution of sex-based genes on newly formed sex chromosomes. Transitions between sex determination systems. Most of her research uses Drosophila as a model, combing whole-genome experimental and computational analyses.
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