Dr Damien Crestel

Having grown up in a farming community in Brittany, I trained as an agronomist engineer, specialising in fisheries and aquaculture sciences. I then completed a PhD on the genetic basis of temperature adaptation in European sea bass, a major aquaculture species in Europe. This path reflects my interest in biodiversity and the life sciences, and my wish to improve knowledge of how biodiversity evolves in the face of current global change.

My experience has developed my skills from setting up and running experiments and collecting data to analysing them with biostatistical and genomic tools. Thanks to this background, I can adapt to a range of projects that require the processing of phenotypic and genomic data. In my analyses, I have used various bioinformatics tools and languages to address questions in population genetics and quantitative genetics. I have also managed large phenotypic datasets requiring modelling skills to build models of varying complexity.

At LDgenX, my knowledge of evolutionary biology and of bioinformatic and statistical analysis helps answer a wide range of study questions, from the use of eDNA to the evolution of natural populations.