Field experience

• Design and realization of a census study on Zosterops borbonicus populations in highlands from Réunion.
• Capture, morphometric studies and tissue sampling on protected animals (endemic birds from Mascarenes, endangered sea turtles).
• Overall a total of seven months of research in the field.
• Diving: CMAS level 1.

Laboratory skills

• Methods in molecular biology: DNA and RNA extraction, PCR, cloning, restriction, primer design, work with precious samples.
• Preparation of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) libraries and adaptation of RAD-seq protocol to HiSeq2000 chemistry.
• Awareness of techniques for target enrichment and resequencing.

Analytical skills

• Statistics (R)
• Chromatograms interpretation (Sequencher, Geneious)
• Microsatellites preliminary analyses (GeneMapper, Microchecker)
• Population genetics/genomics softwares (GENEPOP, Arlequin, DNAsp, IMa, Migrate-n, MSMC, ARGWeaver, PopGenome, GenABEL…)
• Phylogeny and datations (MrBayes, BEAST, RAxML)
• Aproximate Bayesian Computation (ms, fastsimcoal, package abc in R)
• Bioinformatics (UNIX, regular expressions, shell scripts, classical tools in NGS such as bwa, LastZ, velvet, Picard tools).
• Niche modeling (Maxent, RandomForest package in R, extraction of environmental data, ENMTools).
• Densities estimation (Distance)
• Office, Adobe CS5.