Ilaria Coscia

My main field of research is population genetics/genomics of marine fishes.

I am interested in using population genomics to answer ecological questions. The field of population genetics has been transforming over the last few years, and is now able to use the genome as a whole instead of the few tens of markers that were routinely employed before.

The amount of data produced is astounding, and can be used to investigate several questions, from speciation, adaptation, hybridisation and seascape genetics to stock identification and management. Importantly, these new techniques involve the use of new bioinformatics analysis techniques.