Kirsten Bomblies

She has studied processes related to speciation and hybrid incompatibility, and currently focuses on the adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to climate and genome change.

She examined how these plants as well as organisms in general develop to their extant form and function due to the influence of their component genes, proteins and other intrinsic and extrinsic forces.

As a postdoc with Detlef Weigel at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, she began to study how individuals interact with other organisms and to examine selection forces within and across species boundaries, accessions, chronological gradients and other delineations.

The work has an experimental component but the theoretical implications of the discoveries Bomblies and her colleagues made have received much attention.

At ETH Zürich Bomblies studies the evolution of meiosis, particularly recombination and chromosome segregation.