Mr Fabien Burki (PhD Student)
Currently member of Jan Pawlowski's lab
Sciences II, 4078 , ☎ +41 22 379 30 73
Teach in 1 course: Systématique animale et végétale
Latest publications
Pawlowski J, Burki F. Untangling the phylogeny of amoeboid protists. J Eukaryot Microbiol, 2009 Jan, 56, 1, 16-25
A Minge M, Silberman JD, Orr RJ, Cavalier-Smith T, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Burki F, Skjaeveland A, Jakobsen KS. Evolutionary position of breviate amoebae and the primary eukaryote divergence. Proc Biol Sci, 2008 Nov
Burki F, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Pawlowski J. Phylogenomics reveals a new 'megagroup' including most photosynthetic eukaryotes. Biol Lett, 2008 Aug, 4, 4, 366-369
Pennisi E. EVOLUTION: Building the Tree of Life, Genome by Genome. Science, 2008 Jun, 320, 5884, 1716-1717
Burki F, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Minge M, Skjaeveland A, Nikolaev SI, Jakobsen KS, Pawlowski J. Phylogenomics reshuffles the eukaryotic supergroups. PLoS ONE, 2007 Jan, 2, 8, e790
Activities
started September 1, 2004 in Jan Pawlowski's lab
Graduations
A phylogenomic contribution to the eukaryotic tree of life (PhD thesis 2009, Jan Pawlowski's lab)
Position phylogénétique de Gromia oviformis basée sur l’étude du SSU rDNA et de l’actine (diploma 2002, Jan Pawlowski's lab)
About me
Taking advantage of the actual dynamic in phylogenomic, the main aim of my thesis is the use of genomic data to study important questions in eukaryotic evolution. Among eukaryotes, I am particularly interested in Rhizaria which represent a big part of the diversity but are nevertheless missing in most of global phylogenies.
Our current project is to extend our taxa sampling with species specifically chosen for their good micropaleontological records. We are inferring a molecular time-scale for the eukaryotic tree, at the interface between phylogenomics and micropaleontology.
