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Postdoctoral positions
2024 - present Postdoctoral Researcher, Sudmant Lab - University of California Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology - "The role of structural variants in somatic evolution and aging"
2023 - 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Kelley Lab - University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - "Convergent adaptation to extreme environments in Poeciliid fishes"
2021 - 2023 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Evolutionary Biology - "The evolution and maintenance of wing-pattern supergenes in Danaus butterflies" Funded by SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
Education
2016 - 2020 PhD, Eawag, dept. Fish Ecology & Evolution and University of Bern, Institute of Ecology & Evolution - pass with honours insigni cum laude
2015 - 2016 Tropical Forest Ecology (MRes), Imperial College London - Pass with Distinction
2012 - 2015 Biology (BSc), Imperial College London - 1st Class Honours
Publications
You can find my Google Scholar page HERE - * indicates shared first authorship/equal contribution
15. M.R. Sandoval, R. De-Kayne, S. Shank, S. Pirro, A. Ko’ou et al. (in press) Ecological diversification of sea catfishes is accompanied by genome-wide signatures of positive selection. Nature Communications
14. R. De-Kayne, I. Gordon, R. Terblanche, S. H. Martin Extensive haplotype diversity in a butterfly wing pattern supergene is fuelled by incomplete recombination suppression. Biorxiv. HERE
13. R. Greenway, R. De-Kayne, A. Brown, H. Camarillo, C. Delich et al. (2024) Integrative analyses of convergent adaptation in sympatric extremophile fishes. Current Biology. HERE
12. R. De-Kayne, B. Perry, K. McGowan, J. Landers, L. Arias-Rodriguez, R. Greenway, C.M. Rodríguez Peña, M. Tobler, J.L. Kelley (2024) Evolutionary rate shifts in coding and regulatory regions underpin repeated adaptation to sulfidic streams in poeciliid fishes. Genome Biology and Evolution. HERE
11. R. De-Kayne, R. Schley, J.M.I. Barth, L.C. Campillo, C. Chaparro-Pedraza et al. (2024) Why do some lineages radiate while others do not? Perspectives for future research on adaptive radiations. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. HERE
10. J. Cerca, D.D. Cotoras, V.C. Bieker, R. De-Kayne, et al. (2023) Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. HERE
9. R. De-Kayne, O.M. Selz, D. Marques, D. Frei, O. Seehausen, P.G.D. Feulner (2022) Genomic architecture of adaptive radiation and hybridization in Alpine whitefish. Nature Communications 13, 4479 HERE
8. K-W Kim*, R. De-Kayne*, I.J. Gordon, K.S. Omufwoko, D.J. Martins, R. ffrench-Constant, S.H. Martin (2022) Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377, 20210207 HERE
7. D. Frei , R. De-Kayne, O.M. Selz, O. Seehausen, P.G.D. Feulner (2022) Genomic variation from an extinct species is retained in the extant radiation following speciation reversal. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6, 461-468 HERE
6. K.S. Singh*, R. De-Kayne*, K.S. Omufwoko, D.J. Martins, C. Bass, R. ffrench-Constant, S.H. Martin (2022) Genome assembly of Danaus chrysippus and comparison with the Monarch Danaus plexippus. G3 12, jkab449 HERE
5. R. De-Kayne*, D. Frei*, R. Greenway, S.L. Mendes, C. Retel, P.G.D. Feulner (2021) Sequencing platform shifts provide opportunities but pose challenges for combining genomic datasets. Molecular Ecology Resources 21, 653–660 HERE
4. R. De-Kayne, S. Zoller, P.G.D. Feulner (2020) A de novo chromosome-level genome assembly of Coregonus sp. “Balchen”: one representative of the Swiss Alpine whitefish radiation. Molecular Ecology Resources 20, 1093-1109 HERE
3. R. De-Kayne, P.G.D. Feulner (2018) A European whitefish linkage map and its implications for understanding genome-wide synteny between salmonids following whole genome duplication. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 8, 3745-3755 HERE
2. O.G. Osborne*, R. De-Kayne*, M.I. Bidartondo, I. Hutton, W.J. Baker, C.G.N. Turnbull, V. Savolainen (2017) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi promote coexistence and niche divergence of sympatric palm species on a remote oceanic island. New Phytologist 217, 1254-1266 HERE
1. P.G.D. Feulner, R. De-Kayne (2017) Genome evolution, structural rearrangements and speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30, 1488-1490 HERE