Dr. Ana-Hermina Ghenu

I am broadly interested in how organisms are shaped by their environments and applying a mechanistic understanding of these processes to forecast future biodiversity. Ecological and evolutionary predictions could help us mitigate the impacts of climate change, particularly through microbial communities. In my current research, I focus on how extreme heat stress affects the composition and interactions of soil microbes. Understanding these dynamics is essential in a changing climate because we rely on soil microbes for fundamental ecosystem services, like food production and carbon sequestration.

Publications

A.-H. Ghenu, A. Amado, I. Gordo, and C. Bank. 2023. Epistasis decreases with increasing antibiotic pressure but not temperature Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378: 20220058. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0058

A.-H. Ghenu*, A. Blanckaert*, R.K. Butlin, J. Kulmuni, and C. Bank. 2018 Conflict between heterozygote advantage and hybrid incompatibility in haplodiploids (and sex chromosomes) Molecular Ecology, 27(19): 3935-49. doi: 10.1111/mec.14482 2016

A.-H. Ghenu, B.M. Bolker, D.J. Melnick, and B.J. Evans. 2016. Multicopy gene family evolution on primate Y chromosomes. BMC Genomics, 17: 157. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-2187-8

S. Matuszewski*, M.E. Hildebrandt*, A.-H. Ghenu, J.D. Jensen, and C. Bank. 2016. A statistical guide to the design of deep mutational scanning experiments. Genetics. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.190462 2015

R.K. Schott, J. Müller, C.G.Y. Yang, N. Bhattacharyya, N. Chan, M. Xu, J.M. Morrow, A.-H. Ghenu, E.R. Loew, V. Tropepe, and B.S.W. Chang. 2015. Evolutionary transformation of rod photoreceptors in the all-cone retina of a diurnal garter snake PNAS, 113(2):356-61. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513284113