Curriculum Vitae Alexander Kalinka Personal • • • • • Date and place of birth: 08/02/1980, Manchester, UK. Citizenship: British. Address: Institut für Populationsgenetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Veterinärplatz 1, A-1210 Wien, Austria. Phone: +43 1 250774334; Fax: +43-1-25077-4390 Email: [email protected] Education • 2002: Bsc Genetics with First Class Honours, York University, UK. • 2002 – 2007: PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK, supervised by Nick Barton. Positions • 2007 – 2008: Science Editor for BioMed Central (BMC) biology core journals, London, UK. • 2008 – 2013: Postdoc in Pavel Tomancak's lab at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany. • 2013 – present: Group Leader, Institut für Populationsgenetik, Vetmeduni, Vienna. Extramural Funding • 2012: Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator’s Grant (Renewed). Quantitative modeling of expression pattern evolution in insect development. First renewed grant in HFSP history. Talks and Workshops • 2013: IST, Vienna, Austria. Invited seminar organised by Nick Barton. • 2011: University of Manchester, UK. Invited seminar organised by Casey M. Bergman. • 2010: 51st Drosophila Research Conference, Washington, DC. Evolution and Quantitative Genetics I session. • 2009: University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. Invited seminar organised by Marc Robinson-Rechavi. • 2009: 21st European Drosophila Research Conference, Nice, France. Evolution & Population Genetics session. • 2009: Drosophila Species Workshop, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Organised by T. Markow and P. O’Grady. Teaching • 2013 – present: Lecturer Darwinian Medicine Master's BioMedicine course. • 2010 – 2013: Supervised PhD student Asli Kayserili at MPI-CBG. • 2011 – 2012: Supervised Christopher Todd’s BSc thesis (University of York, UK): Sequence Heterochrony in Drosophila strains (Hosted at MPI-CBG, Dresden). • 2005 – 2006: Teaching Assistant, Bio-statistics course, Edinburgh University, UK. Five most important publications 1. P. Heyn, M. Kircher, A. Dahl, J. Kelso, P. Tomancak, A.T. Kalinka and K.M. Neugebauer: The Earliest Transcribed Zygotic Genes Are Short, Newly Evolved, and Different across Species. Cell Rep 6, 285292 (2014) 2. M.A. Kayserili, D.T. Gerrard, P. Tomancak and A.T. Kalinka: An Excess of Gene Expression Divergence on the X Chromosome in Drosophila Embryos: Implications for the Faster-X Hypothesis. Plos Genetics 8 (2012) 3. A.T. Kalinka and P. Tomancak: The evolution of early animal embryos: conservation or divergence? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27, 385-393 (2012) 4. A.T. Kalinka, K.M. Varga, D.T. Gerrard, S. Preibisch, D.L. Corcoran, J. Jarrells, U. Ohler, C.M. Bergman and P. Tomancak: Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model. Nature 468, 811-U102 (2010) 5. Gardner and A.T. Kalinka: Recombination and the evolution of mutational robustness. Journal of Theoretical Biology 241, 707-715 (2006) Research interests Evo-devo, experimental evolution, life-history evolution, ecological genetics.
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