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
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.
