Diala ABU AWAD

 last updated 21/02/2023 -   -  1128
 diala.abu-awad@universite-paris-saclay.fr
 Diversity, Evolution and Adaptation of Populations
 UPSay, Assistant professor
 Evolution, selection, mathematical models, population genetics, quantitative genetics, demography, life-history strategies, plant species, self-fertilisation, seed-dormancy
 publications - orcid 

Positions and education

• 2021 - present: Associate professor at UMR GQE-Le Moulon , team DEAP
• 2018 - 2021: TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan   , as part of the Population Genetics Group  
  • 2020 - 2021 as a Humboldt Fellow  
  • 2019 as a Postdoctoral fellow
  • 2018 - 2019 as TU Foundation Fellow  
• 2018: Postdoctoral fellow at Station Biologique de Roscoff   as part of the group Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Algae  
• 2015 - 2017: Post-doctoral fellow at UMR AGAP   as part of the GE2pop   research group
• 2014 - 2015: Temporary Lecturer and Research Assistant at UMR EEP  
• 2014: Awarded Ph.D. in Evolution and Ecology by the Université de Lille   , work funded by La Chaire de Modélisation Mathématique et Biodiversité   . Advisors: Sylvain Billiard   ( UMR EEP   ) and Viet Chi Tran   ( UMR LAMA   )

Research interests

I am a theoretical biologist working to develop models that account for complex genetic processes impacting the trajectories of species evolution. I am also interested in explicitly integrating life-history traits (self-fertilisation, seed-dormancy, life-span, etc.) to understand how such traits affect selection and adaptation.

Publications

see ORCID  

Publications

• Abu-Awad D., Waller D.. (2023) Conditions for maintaining and eroding pseudo-overdominance and its contribution to inbreeding depression. Peer Community Journal, (3) e8
• Korfmann K., Abu Awad D., Tellier A.. (2023) Weak seed banks influence the signature and detectability of selective sweeps. J of Evolutionary Biology, 9 (36) 1282-1294
• Sellinger TPP., Abu‐Awad D., Tellier A.. (2021) Limits and convergence properties of the sequentially Markovian coalescent. Molecular Ecology Resources, 7 (21) 2231-2248