Professional Preparation

 

Assistant professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology (EBC), Uppsala University, Sweden. 2016 – present

 

Researcher, Ellegren Lab, Department of Evolutionary Biology (EBC), Uppsala University, Sweden. 2014 – 2016

 

Postdoctoral researcher, Ellegren Lab, Department of Evolutionary Biology (EBC), Uppsala University, Sweden. 2012 – 2014

 

Postdoctoral research assistant, Brosius Lab, Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Germany. 2012

 

PhD; Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Germany; supervisor Prof. Jürgen Brosius. 2012

 

Doctoral research assistant, Brosius Lab, Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Germany, 2009 – 2012

Student teaching assistant, Institute of Zoology, Free University of Berlin, Germany. 2006-2009

 

Undergraduate and graduate studies in Biology at Free University of Berlin, Germany. 2004-2009

 

 

 
Selected Publications

 

Weissensteiner, M. H., Pang, A. W. C., Bunikis, I., Höijer, I., Vinnere-Petterson, O., Suh, A.*, Wolf, J. B. W.* (2017) Combination of short-read, long-read and optical mapping assemblies reveals large-scale tandem repeat arrays with population genetic implications. Genome Research 27, 697–708.

 

Kapusta, A., Suh, A., Feschotte, C. (2017) Dynamics of genome size evolution in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, E1460–E1469.

 

Sotero-Caio, C., Platt II, R. N., Suh, A., Ray, D. A. (2017) Evolution and diversity of transposable elements in vertebrate genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution 9, 161–177.

 

Vijay, N., Bossu, C. M., Poelstra, J. W., Weissensteiner, M. W., Suh, A., Kryukov, A., Wolf, J. B. W. (2016) Evolution of heterogeneous genome differentiation across multiple contact zones in a crow species complex. Nature Communications 7, 13195

 

Suh, A., Witt, C. C., Menger, J., Sadanandan, K. R., Podsiadlowski, L., Gerth, M., Weigert, A., McGuire, J. A., Mudge, J., Edwards, S. V., Rheindt, F. E. (2016) Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes. Nature Communications 7, 11396.

 

Suh, A. (2015) The specific requirements for CR1 retrotransposition explain the scarcity of retrogenes in birds. Journal of Molecular Evolution 81, 18–20.

 

Suh, A., Smeds, L., Ellegren, H. (2015) The dynamics of incomplete lineage sorting across the ancient adaptive radiation of neoavian birds. PLoS Biology 13, e1002224.

 

Smeds, L., Warmuth, V., Bolivar, P., Uebbing, S., Burri, R., Suh, A., Nater, A., Bureš, S., Garamszegi, L. Z., Hogner, S., Moreno, J., Qvarnström, A., Ružić, M., Sæther S.-A., Sætre, G.-P., Török, J., Ellegren, H. (2015) Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome. Nature Communications 6, 7330.

 

Platt II, R. N., Zhang, Y., Witherspoon, D. J., Xing, J., Suh, A., Keith, M. S., Jorde, L. B., Stevens, R. D., Ray, D.A. (2015) Targeted capture of phylogenetically-informative Ves SINE insertions in genus Myotis. Genome Biology and Evolution 7, 1664–1675.

 

Jarvis, E. D., Mirarab, S., Aberer, A. J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., Ho, S. Y. W., Faircloth, B. C., Nabholz, B., Howard, J.T., Suh, A., Weber, C. C., da Fonseca, R. R., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Narula, N., Liu, L., Burt, D., Ellegren, H., Edwards, S. V., Stamatakis, A., Mindell, D. P., Cracraft, J., Braun, E. L., Warnow, T., Jun, W., Gilbert, M. T. P., Zhang, G., The Avian Phylogenomics Consortium. (2015) Phylogenomic analyses data of the Avian Phylogenomics Project. GigaScience 4, 4.

 

Suh, A., Churakov, G., Ramakodi, M. P., Platt II, R. N., Jurka, J., Kojima, K. K., Caballero, J., Smit, A., Vliet, K., Hoffmann, F. G., Brosius, J., Green, R. E., Braun, E. L., Ray, D. A., Schmitz, J. (2015) Multiple lineages of ancient CR1 retroposons shaped the early genome evolution of amniotes. Genome Biology and Evolution 7, 205–217.

 

Suh, A., Weber, C. C., Kehlmaier, C., Braun, E. L., Green, R. E., Fritz, U., Ray, D. A., Ellegren, H. (2014) Early Mesozoic coexistence of amniotes and Hepadnaviridae. PLoS Genetics 10, e1004559.

 

Green, R. E., Braun, E. L., Armstrong, J., Earl, D., Nguyen, N., Hickey, G., Vandewege, M. W., St John, J. A., Capella-Gutiérrez, S., Castoe, T. A., Kern, C., Fujita, M. K., Opazo, J. C., Jurka, J., Kojima, K. K., Caballero, J., Hubley, R. M., Smit, A. F., Platt II, R. N., Lavoie, C. A., Finger Jr., J. W., Suh, A., and 33 additional authors (2014) Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs. Science 346, 1335.

 

Jarvis, E. D., Mirarab, S., Aberer, A. J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., Ho, S. Y. W., Faircloth, B. C., Nabholz, B., Howard, J.T., Suh, A., and 92 additional authors (2014) Whole genome analyses resolve the early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science 346, 1320–1331.

Suh, A., Brosius, J., Schmitz, J., Kriegs, J. O. (2013) The genome of a Mesozoic paleovirus reveals the evolution of hepatitis B viruses. Nature Communications 4, 1791.

 

Suh, A., Kriegs, J. O., Donnellan, S., Brosius, J., Schmitz, J. (2012) A universal method for the study of CR1 retroposons in nonmodel bird genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29, 2899–2903.

 

Suh, A., Paus, M., Kiefmann, M., Churakov, G., Franke, F. A., Brosius, J., Kriegs, J. O., Schmitz, J. (2011) Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of passerine birds. Nature Communications 2, 443.

 

Suh, A., Kriegs, J. O., Brosius, J., Schmitz, J. (2011) Retroposon insertions and the chronology of avian sex chromosome evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28, 2993–2997.