Stuart J.E. Baird

Stuart J.E. Baird, Ph.D.

Position: full-time researcher
Research topics: evolutionary biology, population genetics
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 590 613
E-mail: stuartj.e.bairdgmail.com

Personal webpage

Research interests

• evolutionary biology,
• spatial genetics,
• population genetics,
• bioinformatics,
• hybrid zones.

Running Projects

High resolution genomic analysis of introgression across a species barrier

Education

• 1990: BSc Ord Computer Science (non graduating) - The University of Edinburgh.
• 1991: BSc Hons (Zoology) - The University of Edinburgh, (class medallist).
• 1995: Ph.D. - The University of Edinburgh, Population genetics.
• 2005-present: Chargé de Recherche (première class) INRA, Paris (Med ed disponibilité 2008).

Employment

• 2012-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of Population Biology Studenec - researcher.
• 2012-present: University of Antwerpen, Belgium - affiliate researcher.
• 2008-present: Universidade do Porto, Portugal - Associate Professor.
• 2003-2008: Chargé de Recherche (1st class), INRA. CBGP Montpellier, France.
• 2001-2003: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, USA - associate research.
• 1999-2001: University of Queensland, Australia - ARC associate research.
• 1999-1999: Université de Montpellier II, France - CNRS visiting fellowship.
• 1997-1999: University of Indiana, USA - NSF Postdoctoral fellowship.
• 1995-1996: The University of Edinburgh, UK - NERC Post-Doctoral Research Assistant.
• 1995-1995: Université de Montpellier II, France - ESF Short Visiting Fellowship.

Recent Invited Contribution

• March-April 2012: Frontiers of Speciation (FroSpects) summer school, European Science Foundation (ESF), Pruhonice, Czech Republic.
• March-April 2012: Programming for Evolutionary Biology Workshop, funding: VolkswagenStiftung, Leipzig, Germany.
• January 2011: International Conference of Landscape Genetics, plenary: Spatial Coalescent Methods and Phylogeography, Bialowieza, Poland.
• January 2010: International Biogeography Society (IBS) Conference, talk: Spatial Coalescent Methods and Phylogeography, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
• October 2010: European Science Foundation (ESF) Frontiers of Speciation (FroSpects) one-day symposium, Prague, Czech Republic.
• January 2010: Marie Curie Initial Training Network: Speciation. Workshop: Genetics and Genomics of Speciation, Losehill Hall, UK.
• May 2009: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket): Conservation genetics workshop - Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2008: ESF Conservation genetics summer school - Liblice, Czech Republic.
• 2008: ARC workshop Modelling cane toad invasion dynamics - TERF, NT, Australia.
• 2007: ARC Research Network: Understanding recent evolutionary history of Australian Biota: Phylogeography and Coalescence Workshop - Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
• 2007: DNA Sampling workshop - Design of geographic sampling strategies - Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France.

Academic service

• reviewer - Evolution, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Heredity, Current Biology, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics, Conservation Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Avian Biology.

  Publications
  

  2015
  

  Baird Stuart J. E.: Exploring linkage disequilibrium, Molecular Ecology Resources 15 (2015) 1017-1019.

  Goüy de Bellocq J., Baird Stuart J. E., Albrechtová J., Sobeková K., Piálek J.: Murine cytomegalovirus is not restricted to the house mouse Mus musculus domesticus: prevalence and genetic diversity in the European house mouse hybrid zone, Journal of Virology 89 (2015) 406-414.

  Kubelová M., Papoušek I., Bělohlávek T., Goüy de Bellocq J., Baird Stuart J. E., Široký P.: Spotted fever group rickettsiae detected in immature stages of ticks parasitizing on Iberian endemic lizard Lacerta schreiberi Bedriaga, 1878, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 6 (2015) 711-714.

  Phillips B. L., Baird Stuart J. E.: Spatial sorting unlikely to promote maladaptive hybridization: response to Lowe, Muhlfeld, and Allendorf, Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30 (2015) 564-565.

  
  2012
  

  Baird Stuart J. E., Ribas A., Macholán M., Albrecht T., Piálek J., Goüy de Bellocq J.: Where are the wormy mice? A re-examination of hybrid parasitism in the European house mouse hybrid zone, Evolution 66 (2012) 2757-2772.

  Ďureje Ľ., Macholán M., Baird Stuart J. E., Piálek J.: The mouse hybrid zone in Central Europe: from morphology to molecules, Folia zoologica 61 (2012) 308-318.