Professor MOMIGLIANO Paolo
Assistant Professor , School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
BSc (James Cook University); PhD (Macquarie University)
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Teaching area
- Marine Biology
- Phylogenetics and population genetics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Marine Conservation
Research Interests
- Speciation genomics
- Genomics of local adaptation
- Demographic modelling from genetic data
- Seascape genetics
- Conservation genetics of marine fauna
Current Research
- Speciation genomics of flatfish and whitefish
- Seascape and conservation genetics of elasmobranchs
- Reconstructing demographic history from genetic data
- Local adaptation and conservation genetics of marine mammals
- The role of demographic history in constraining or fueling local adaptation
Fellowships
- Juan de la Cierva Incorporacion Fellowship (01/2022-08/2022), Universidade de Vigo
- Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellowship (09/2018-09/2021), University of Helsinki
- Finnish Cultural Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (08/2017-08/2018), University of Helsinki.
Publications and news
- Walsh, Cameron J*.; Momigliano, Paolo*; Boussarie, Germain; Robbins, William D.; Bonnin, Lucas; Favelot, Cecile; Kiszka, Jeremy J.; Mouillot, David; Vigliola, Laurent; Manel, Stepèhanie (2022- in Press). Genomic insights into the historical and contemporary demographics of the grey reef shark. Heredity , 128 (4): 225-235. Listen to the Heredity podcast about this paper here.
*THESE AUTHORS CONTRIBUTED EQUALLY
- Dahms, Carolin; Kemppainen, Petri; Zanella, Linda; Zanella, Davor; Carosi, Antonella; Merilä, Juha and Momigliano, Paolo (2021). Cast away in the Adriatic: low degree of parallel genetic divergence in three-spined sticklebacks. Molecular Ecology 31 (4): 1234-1253
- Fang, Bohao*; Kemppainen, Petri*; Momigliano, Paolo* and Merilä, Juha (2021). Population structure limits parallel evolution in stickleback. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38 (10): 4205–4221.
*THESE AUTHORS CONTRIBUTED EQUALLY - Momigliano, Paolo; Florin, Ann-Britt, and Merilä, Juha (2021). Biases in demographic modelling affect our understanding of the process of speciation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38 (7): 2967-2985
- Fang, Bohao; Kemppainen, Petri; Momigliano, Paolo; Feng, Xueyun, and Merilä, Juha (2020). On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks. Nature Ecology Evolution 4: 1105–1114.
- Fang, Bohao; Merilä, Juha; Matschiner, Michael, and Momigliano, Paolo (2020). Estimating uncertainty in divergence times among three-spined stickleback clades using the multispecies coalescent. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 142,: 106646.
- Momigliano, Paolo; Jokinen, Henri; Calboli, Federico; Aro, Eero, and Merilä, Juha (2019). Cryptic temporal changes in stock composition explain the decline of a flounder(Platichthysspp.) assemblage. Evolutionary Applications 12 (3),: 549–559.
- Fang, Bohao; Merilä, Juha; Ribeiro, Filipe; Alexandre, Carlos M, and Momigliano, Paolo (2018). Worldwide phylogeny of three-spined sticklebacks. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 613–625.
- Momigliano, Paolo; Harcourt, Robert; Robbins, William D; Jaiteh, Vanessa; Mahardika, Gusti N; Sembiring, Andrianus, and Stow, Adam (2017). Genetic structure and signatures of selection in grey reef sharks(Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos). Heredity 119 (3):142–153.
- Momigliano, Paolo; Jokinen, Henri; Fraimout, Antoine; Florin, Ann-Britt; Norkko, Alf, and Merilä, Juha (2017). Extraordinarily rapid speciation in a marine fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.23, pp. 6074–6079.
