Visit by Assistant Professor Bengt Hansson from Lund University's Department of Animal Ecology

Bengt Hansson's research focuses on the causes and consequences of inbreeding and outbreeding and the genetics underlying simple and complex phenotypes. He combines pedigree, linkage, association and expression analyses on several study species, including the great reed warbler. He received his PhD in 2003 and after a post-doctoral session in 2003-2006 at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK, took up a post as Assistant Professor at the Department of Animal Ecology at Lund University in Sweden.

Bengt's visit to UCT is related to Dr Martim Pinheiro de Melo's research on 'Unravelling the genetics of ecological speciation: adaptive genomics of two avian radiations' which falls within the Systematics and Biogeography Research Programme. He will be at the Fitz until the end of January next year and can be contacted at bengt.hansson@zooekol.lu.se.