Dr. Malin Ah-King
Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies
Biological and related sciences, Environment
Natural Resources
Evolutionary biology
Ramón y Cajal Starting Grant, 2018
Marie Curie IF Fellowship, 2017
Beatriú de Pinós Postdoctoral fellowship, 2017
Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Postdoctoral fellowship, 2016
Ramón Areces Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship, 2012
Caja Madrid Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship, 2012
Universidad Complutense Predoctoral fellowship, 2007
Associate Editor, Systematics and Biodiversity
Recommender, PCI Genomics
Coordinator, Diversity Committee, Institute of Evolutionary Biology
Project Evaluator, Spanish Research Agency, Croatian Science Foundation, National Agency of Research and Innovation of Chile, Chilean Antarctic Institute, National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation of Kazakhstan
Reviewer for 23 scientific journals, including Molecular Biology and Evolution, Systematic Biology, BMC Genomics, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, PLoS ONE, Heredity,...
Coordinator & Instructor, Summer Workshop on Phylogenomics & Population Genomics, University of Barcelona, Spain
Catalan, English, French, Spanish
Fernández R, Gabaldón T. 2020. Gene gain and loss across the Metazoa Tree of Life. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1069-x.
Fernández R, Marcet-Houben M, Legeai F, Richard G, Robin S, Wucher V, Pegueroles C, Gabaldón T, Tagu D. 2020. Selection following gene duplication shapes recent genome evolution in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Fernández R, Gabaldón T, Dessimoz C. 2020. Orthology inference: definitions, prediction and impact on species phylogeny inference. Book chapter in: Scornavacca C, Délsuc F, Gaultier N. 2020. Phylogenetics in the genomics era. Free online book: https://hal.inria.fr/PGE/
Marchán DF, Marta Novo, Nuria Sánchez, Jorge Domínguez, Darío Díaz Cosín, Fernández R. 2020. Local adaptation fuels cryptic speciation in terrestrial annelids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106767.
Fernández R, Kallal RJ, Dimitrov D, Ballesteros JA, Arnedo MA, Giribet G, Hormiga G. 2018. Phylogenomics, diversification dynamics, and comparative transcriptomics across the spider tree of life. Current Biology 28 (9), 1489-1497. e5.
Fernández R, Edgecombe GE, Giribet G. 2018. Phylogenomics illuminates the backbone of the Myriapoda Tree of Life and reconciles morphological and molecular phylogenies. Scientific Reports 8 (1), 83.
Fernández R, Sharma PP, Tourinho AL, Giribet G. 2017. The Opiliones tree of life: shedding light on harvestmen relationships through transcriptomics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1849), 20162340.
Fernández R, Edgecombe GE, Giribet G. 2016. Exploring phylogenetic relationships within Myriapoda and the effects of matrix composition and occupancy on phylogenomic reconstruction. Systematic Biology 65 (5), 871-889.
Fernández R, Giribet G. 2015. Unnoticed in the tropics: phylogenomic resolution of the poorly known arachnid order Ricinulei (Arachnida). Royal Society open science 2 (6), 150065.
Fernández R, Hormiga G, Giribet G. 2014. Phylogenomic analysis of spiders reveals nonmonophyly of orb weavers. Current Biology 24 (15), 1772-1777.
Fernández R, Laumer CE, Vahtera V, Libro S, Kaluziak S, Sharma PP, Edgecombe GE, Giribet G. 2014. Evaluating topological conflict in centipede phylogeny using transcriptomic data sets. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31 (6), 1500-1513.
Phylogenomics sensu species tree reconstruction: how are animals related to each other?
Phylogenomics sensu gene repertoire evolution: how old are animal genes, how did they originate and how did they change to adapt to new environments?
Understanding the genomic basis of terrestrialization in animals: is there a terrestrialization genetic toolkit?
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
European Society for Evolutionary Biology
Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology
Catalan Society of Evolutionary Biology
International Society of Arachnology
Society for the Study of Evolution
Panel member, Swedish Research Council, 2018 – 2020
Spider phylogenomics: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/science/spider-web-evolution.html
Lab blog: https://rmfernandezgarcia0.wixsite.com/metazomics/lab-phylosophy
Certificate of Undergraduate mentoring in Life Sciences, Harvard University, 2014
Training in leadership and communication skills
My husband and baby daughter travel with me to all conferences. Lucky to have a very supportive partner.
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Biological and related sciences, Evolutionary biology, Animal behaviour, Gender studies, Science studies
Biological and related sciences, Microbial bioelectrochemistry, Microbial electrophysiology
Biological and related sciences, Environment, Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology, Landscape Genomics
Biological and related sciences, Molecular biology, molecular microbiology, biochemistry, membrane protein biochemistry