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.baird
gmail.com
Research interests
- evolutionary biology,
- spatial genetics,
- population genetics,
- bioinformatics,
- hybrid zones.
Running Projects
Genotypes and phenotypes associated with Y chromosome introgression in the European house mouse hybrid zone: comparison among transects (2017-2019)
Finished Projects
High resolution genomic analysis of introgression across a species barrier (2015-2017)
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
2018
Čížková D., Baird Stuart J. E., Těšíková J., Voigt S., Ďureje Ľ., Piálek J., Goüy de Bellocq J.: Host subspecific viral strains in European house mice: Murine cytomegalovirus in the Eastern (Mus musculus musculus) and Western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus), Virology 521 (2018) 92-98.
2017
Baird Stuart J. E.: The impact of high-throughput sequencing technology on speciation research: maintaining perspective, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30 (2017) 1482-1487.
Gryseels S., Baird Stuart J. E., Borremans B., Makundi R., Leirs H., Goüy de Bellocq J.: When viruses don’t go viral: the importance of host phylogeographic structure in the spatial spread of arenaviruses, PLoS Pathogens 13 (2017) .
2016
Dufresnes C., Majtyka T., Baird Stuart J. E., Gerchen J. F., Borzée A., Savary R., Ogielska M., Perrin N., Stöck M.: Empirical evidence for large X-effects in animals with undifferentiated sex chromosomes, Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 21029.
Gryseels S., Goüy de Bellocq J., Makundi R., Vanmechelen K., Broeckhove J., Mazoch V., Šumbera R., Zima Jr. J., Leirs H., Baird Stuart J. E.: Genetic distinction between contiguous urban and rural multimammate mice in Tanzania despite gene flow, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29 (2016) 1952-1967.
Wasimuddin W., Bryja J., Ribas A., Baird Stuart J. E., Piálek J., Goüy de Bellocq J.: Testing parasite "intimacy": the whipworm Trichuris muris in the European house mouse hybrid zone, Ecology and Evolution 6 (2016) 2688-2701.
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.
