Christos Palaiokostas
Associate Editor, Fish and Complex Traits section
Christos Palaiokostas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Biosciences at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is working in the field of aquaculture genetics and breeding. He received his PhD from the Institute of Aquaculture at Stirling University in Scotland, while studying the sex determining system of fish with sexual dimorphism. During his postdoc at the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh University he worked on improving disease resistance in farmed fish using genomics. His research is focused in the application of high-throughput sequencing and genotyping technologies for studying complex traits in aquatic organisms.
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New associate editor, Yaniv Brandvain, joins GENETICS
A new associate editor is joining GENETICS in the Empirical Population Genetics section. We’re excited to welcome Yaniv Brandvain to the team.
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