Alexander Van Nynatten
I study how evolutionary, environmental, ecological factors impact protein function by integrating field work, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and experimental assays of protein structure and function.
I conducted my PhD research at the University of Toronto in the Chang and Lovejoy labs. My thesis focussed on the molecular evolution of rhodopsin in fishes making marine to freshwater transitions. I am now a postdoctoral researcher in the Mandrak lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough studying visual evolution in deepwater fishes inhabiting post-glacial lakes and developing methods for monitoring natural variation using DNA-metabarcoding.
I study how evolutionary, environmental, ecological factors impact protein function by integrating field work, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and experimental assays of protein structure and function.
I conducted my PhD research at the University of Toronto in the Chang and Lovejoy labs. My thesis focussed on the molecular evolution of rhodopsin in fishes making marine to freshwater transitions. I am now a postdoctoral researcher in the Mandrak lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough studying visual evolution in deepwater fishes inhabiting post-glacial lakes and developing methods for monitoring natural variation using DNA-metabarcoding.