I am a postdoctoral researcher in the field of molecular ecology. My interests focus on the application of molecular tools to better understand the biology and ecology of species. I have mainly worked with population genetics using microsatellites markers and phylogenetics using both mitochondrial and nuclear sequences.

Here is a brief summary of my professional experience:

During my PhD, I shared my time between the Laboratoire d´Ecologie Alpine, Grenoble, France (http://www-leca.ujf-grenoble.fr) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway (http://www.umb.no), under the supervision of Dr Pierre Taberlet and Pr. Jon E. Swenson. I studied the genetics of the Scandinavian brown bear and the implications for biology and conservation of the brown bear.

I then joigned the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (http://stri.org), Panama city, Panama, as a postdoctoral researcher, under the supervision of Elredge Bermingham and Robert E. Ricklefs. I investigated the phylogeography and population genetics of land birds in the West Indies.

I currently have a postdoctoral position at the National Center for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum of Oslo, Norway (http://www.nhm.uio.no/ncb/). Here, I work on the phylogeny of bryophytes and vascular plants to test the hypothesis of glacial survival during the last glacial maximum, in Scandinavia.

Please feel free to contact me at:

Natural History Museum,
University of Oslo,
P.O. Box 1172 Blindern
NO-0318 Oslo, NORWAY

Tel : + 47 22 85 18 08; Fax : + 47 22 85 17 09

http://evabellemain.objectis.net

Eva Bellemain