Pär Ingvarsson

Background
2017- Professor in Plant Genomics and Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
2009-2016 Professor in Evolutionary Genetics, Umeå University
2004-2009 Associate Professor, Umeå University, Sweden
2002-2004 Assistant Professor, Umeå University, Sweden.
2000-2002 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
1997-1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1997 Ph.D. in Ecological Botany, Umeå University
1991 B.Sc. in Biology and Mathematics, Lund Univertsity, Sweden
Selected publications
Apuli, R-P., Bernhardsson, C., Schiffthaler, B., Robinson, K.M., Jansson, S., Street, N.R., Ingvarsson, P.K. (2019) Inferring the genomic landscape of recombination rate variation in European aspen (Populus tremula). G3: Genes Genomes Genetics 10, 299-309. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400504
Bernhardsson, C., Wang, X., Vidalis, A., Scofield, D.G., Shiffthaler, B., Basion, J., Street, N.R., Garcia- Gíl, Ingvarsson, P.K. (2019) An ultra-dense haploid genetic map for evaluating the highly fragmented genome assembly of Norway spruce (Picea abies). G3: Genes Genomes Genetics 9, 1623-1632. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200840
Lin, Y-C., Wang, J., Delhomme, N., Shiffthaler, B., Sundström, G., Zuccolo, A., Nystedt, N., Hvidsten, T.R., de la Torre, A., Cossu, R.M., Hoppner, M.P., Lantz, H., Scofield, D.G., Zamani, N., Johansson, A., Mannapperuma, C., Robinson, K.M., Mähler, N., Leitch, I., Pellicer, J., Park, E-J., Van Montaguvan, M., Van de Peer, Y., Grabherr, M., Jansson, S., Ingvarsson, P.K., Street, N.R. (2018) Functional and evolutionary genomic inferences in Populus through genome and population sequencing of American and European aspen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115, E10970-E10978. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801437115
Wang, J., Ding, J., Tan, B., Johansson, A., Nystedt, B., Robinson, K.M., Michelson, I., Scofield, D.G., Nilsson, O., Jansson, S., Street, N.R., Ingvarsson, P.K. (2018) A major locus controls local adaptation and adaptive life history variation in a perennial plant. Genome Biology 19, 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1444-y
Tan, B., Grattapaglia, D., Salgado Martins, G., Zamprogno Ferreira, K., Sundberg, B., Ingvarsson, P.K. (2017) Evaluating the accuracy of genomic prediction of growth and wood traits in two Eucalyptus species and their F1 hybrids. BMC Plant Biology, 17, 110. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-017-1059-6
Mähler, N., Wang, J., Terebieniec, B.K., Ingvarsson, P.K., Street, N.R., Hvidsten, T.R. (2017) Gene co-expression network connectivity is an important determinant of selective constraint. PLoS Genetics, 13, e1006402. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006402
De La Torre, A.R., Li, Z., Van de Peer, Y., Ingvarsson, P.K. (2017) Contrasting rates of molecular evolution and patterns of selection among gymnosperms and flowering plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34, 1363-1377. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx069
Wang, J., Street, N.R., Scofield, D.G., Ingvarsson, P.K. (2016) Variation in linked selection and recombination drive genomic divergence during allopatric speciation of European and American aspens. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33, 1754-1767. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw051
Wang, J., Street, N.R., Scofield, D.G., Ingvarsson, P.K. (2016) Natural selection and recombination rate variation shape nucleotide polymorphism across the genomes of three related Populus species. Genetics, 202, 1185-1200. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.183152
Nystedt, B., Street, N.R., Wetterbom, A., Zuccolo, A., Lin, Y-C., Scofield, D.G., Vezzi, F., Delhomme, N., Alexeyenko, A., Giacomello, S., Vicedomini, R., Sahlin, K., Sherwood, E., Elfstand, M., Gramzow, L., Holmberg, K., Hällman, J., Keech, O., Klasson, L., Koriabine, M., Kucukoglu, M., Käller, M., Luthman, J., Lysholm, F., Niittylä, T., Olson, Å., Rilakovic, N., Ritland, C., Rosselló, J.A., Sena, J., Svensson, T, Talavera-López, C., Theißen, G., Tuominen, H., Vanneste, K., Wu, Z-Q., Zhang, B., Zerbe, P., Arvestad, L., Bhalerao, R., Bohlmann, J., Bousquet, J., Garcia-Gil, R., Hvidsten, T.R., de Jong, P., MacKay, J., Morgante, M., Ritland, K., Sundberg, B., Thompson, S.L., Van de Peer, Y., Andersson, B., Nilsson, O., Ingvarsson, P.K., Lundeberg, J., Jansson, S. (2103) The 20 Gbp Norway spruce genome sheds light on conifer genome evolution. Nature 497, 579-584. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12211