{"id":196,"date":"2020-11-14T19:35:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T18:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T11:27:19","slug":"anja-westram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/team\/anja-westram\/","title":{"rendered":"Anja Westram"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am an evolutionary biologist studying processes generating biological diversity \u2013 adaptation and speciation<\/strong> \u2013 and particularly their genomic basis<\/strong> and spatial patterns. I obtained my PhD from Eawag \/ ETH Z\u00fcrich in Switzerland, and went on to be a postdoc at the University of Sheffield (UK) and IST Austria. I am currently a guest professor at Nord University.<\/p>\n

In my work I combine field surveys, morphological and behavioural phenotyping, analyses of various genomic data sets, and computer simulations \/ theory. I use the marine snail Littorina saxatilis<\/em> as a model system. L. saxatilis<\/em> occurs on rocky shores and in many locations has evolved two distinct ecotypes, adapted to wave-exposed vs. high-predation habitats.<\/p>\n

Currently we are testing whether these ecotypes also occur on the Norwegian coast, and we compare ecotypes in L. saxatilis<\/em> to those in a sister species, L. arcana<\/em>. In the future we will look into physiological adaptations to temperature and other stressors in the extreme rocky shore environment.<\/p>\n

Contact Anja<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am an evolutionary biologist studying processes generating biological diversity \u2013 adaptation and speciation \u2013 and particularly their genomic basis and spatial patterns. I obtained my PhD from Eawag \/ ETH Z\u00fcrich in Switzerland, and went on to be a postdoc at the University of Sheffield (UK) and IST Austria. I am currently a guest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}