Dr Rose Ruiz Daniels
Email - rose.daniels@roslin.ed.ac.uk
Post-doctoral research
I was previously a BBSRC core-funded scientist within the Macqueen lab, but I have now moved on to a different position in the Roslin Institute.
My work aimed to support the Macqueen group in developing a range of state-of-the-art functional genomics tools (e.g. ATAC-Seq, ChIP-Seq, linked-read sequencing), with a view to understanding genome function, regulation and evolution in salmonids and other aquatic organisms.
Biography and previous work
I did my undergraduate degree in Zoology at the University of Manchester. After that I received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to do a European masters in Applied Ecology which took me to France, Germany and New Zealand (where I worked with Parasites and their co-evolution with their host). I did my PhD under the supervision of Dr Delphine Grivet in the Centre of Forest Research ( INIA-CIFOR) in Madrid – titled “Evolution, Demography and Selection in Conifers” – with most of this work involving the exploration of methodologies for inferring molecular adaptation in different species of conifer. In particular, I focused on untangling the signals of demographic history, random drift and selection at the molecular level in the pine species Pinus Halepensis. Working with conifers has given me a taste for working with complex genomes and a keen interest in learning more about genome evolution.
Publications:
RUIZ DANIELS, R., TAYLOR, RS., SERRA VARELA., MJ, GONZÁLEZ-MARTÍNEZ, S.C., VENDRAMIN and G.G. GRIVET, D.(2018) Inferring selection during long range colonisation: the Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) in the Mediterranean basin. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14786
SERRA-VARELA, MJ., ALÍA, R., RUIZ DANIELS, R., ZIMMERMANN, N.E GONZALO-JIMÉNEZ., J and GRIVET, D. (2017) Assessing vulnerability of two Mediterranean conifers to support genetic conservation management in the face of climate change. Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12544
RUIZ DANIELS, R., BELTRAN, S., POULIN, R., and LAGRUE, C. (2013) Do parasites adopt different strategies in different intermediate hosts? Host size, not host species, influences Coitocaecum parvum (Trematoda) life history strategy, size and egg production. Parasitology, 140, pp 275-283.