phone: +32 (0)2 650 45 11
e-mail: Laura.Albreht@ulb.be
Research interests
Taxonomy – Evolutionary Biology – Genomics – Species Conservation
PhD research project
Species delimitation and evolution of threatened African rosewood species of the genus Pterocarpus
Supervisor: Olivier Hardy (ebe)
Co-supervisor: Nils Bourland (RMCA, CITES)
Driven by my enthusiasm for plant taxonomy, my current research project focuses on species delimitation of African tree genus Pterocarpus (Papilionoideae, Fabaceae). Employing a multidisciplinary approach, I integrate genetic, morphological, and ecological data to tackle species delimitation complexities within the genus, which includes several important timber species.
Publications
Albreht L, Bourland N, Klitgård B, Schley R, Janssens SB, Hardy OJ (2024) Species delimitation and phylogenomics of economically important African Pterocarpus trees, with an implication for the development of DNA-based species identification tools.
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.47612494 (preprint)
Demenou BB, Migliore J, Heuertz M, Monthe FK, Ojeda DI, Wiering JJ, Dauby G, Albreht L, Boom A, Hardy OJ (2020) Plastome phylogeography in two African rain forest legume trees reveals that Dahomey Gap populations originate from the Cameroon volcanic line. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 150, 106854.
doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106854
Communications
The 6th European Conference of Tropical Ecology (poster) | Czech Republic 2023
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