Lisandra Benitez Alvarez

Enthusiastic biologist and nature lover. Previous experience in population genetics studies on crocodiles and shrimp, besides genetic selection of honeybees. PhD in Genetics by the University of Barcelona working on phylogeny and evolution of freshwater planarians using transcriptomic and genomic data. Currently working on the genomic footprints of terrestrialization in Platyhelminthes and phylogenomic methods at Metazoa Phylogenomics Lab (IBE-UPF)