{"id":348,"date":"2020-11-15T22:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T11:27:19","slug":"sanne-ruyts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/team\/sanne-ruyts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanne Ruyts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Fascinated by nature and biodiversity, I was bound to study biology and get involved in several ecological projects and research activities. My life as an ecologist started with a Bsc project on evolutionary ecology of three-spined sticklebacks at KULeuven in Belgium and has evolved to include many different species and ecosystems in different countries. For my PhD at the Forest & Nature Lab at Ghent University, Belgium, I studied the effect of different forest types and mammal and bird community compositions on disease risk. During this time, I co-founded Wild Naliboki, a non-profit organization supporting large carnivore research and conservation in Belarus, and recently contributed to the publication of a book on the ecology of Eurasian lynx. After my PhD, I started working as a research fellow at Ghent University College on a multidisciplinary project investigating the health benefits of biodiversity in urban contexts.<\/p>\n

My research interests are focused on evolutionary ecology, biodiversity & conservation, wildlife ecology and community dynamics. To enhance my competence in population and landscape genetics, I assisted in the development of the \u2018Bilberry Bear\u2019 project which investigates the effect of directed endozoochory by brown bears on the genetic variation of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus<\/em> L.) and the subsequent ecosystem functioning and services of both bear and bilberry. For this project, I work together with Joost Raeymaekers and Sam Steyaert (Nord University, Norway) and Shane Frank (University of South-Eastern Norway, B\u00f8, Norway) in the framework of a STSM of the G-BIKE programme (COST Action CA18134). I use genomic resources to develop molecular markers for the study of genetic variation of natural populations of bilberry and perform population genetic analyses.<\/p>\n

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Fascinated by nature and biodiversity, I was bound to study biology and get involved in several ecological projects and research activities. My life as an ecologist started with a Bsc project on evolutionary ecology of three-spined sticklebacks at KULeuven in Belgium and has evolved to include many different species and ecosystems in different countries. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"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":[7],"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions\/615"}],"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=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/landscapegenomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}