My research focuses on the evolutionary genomics of arthropod populations. At CBGP, I am responsible for analysing high-throughput sequencing data from three species of leaf-rolling moths of the genus Ostrinia in Europe and Asia. In Europe, I am seeking to identify genomic regions involved in the divergence between the two species associated with maize on the one hand and a range of wild dicotyledons on the other, and to measure variations in this divergence across Western Europe. I am also producing a new ‘long-read’ genome assembly for one of the species and conducting a comparative analysis of divergence and convergence between Europe and Asia, where two species of the genus have independently colonised maize, a plant introduced into these two geographical regions around 500 years ago.

Keywords: evolutionary genomics, adaptation, speciation, bioinformatics