1 January 2025 – Dr Nicola Nadeau New Committee Member

Nicola Nadeau Ordinary Committee member for Evolutionary, Ecological and Population Genetics

The Genetics Society is proud to welcome Dr Nicola Nadeau as a member of the committee as a representative of Evolutionary, Ecological and Population Genetics, beginning her four-year term in January 2025.

Biography:

I graduated with a BSc in zoology from Newcastle University in 2002. I went on to do a PhD in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, on the genetics of sexually selected plumage colour in the galliform birds, supervised by Nick Mundy, graduating in 2006. I stayed in Cambridge as a postdoc, first with Nick Mundy, continuing my PhD work, and then with Chris Jiggins on colour-pattern gene evolution in Heliconius butterflies, ending up working on speciation genomics. In 2014 I was award a NERC Independent Research Fellowship, which I took to the University of Sheffield, and started my own lab working on the genetic basis of quantitive and complex traits, including iridescent structural colour and thermal adaptation to altitude. I am now a senior lecturer and Head of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biosciences.