Stuart J.E. Baird Ph.D.

Position full-time researcher
Direction evolutionary biology, population genetics

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Research interests

  • evolutionary biology,
  • spatial genetics,
  • population genetics,
  • bioinformatics,
  • hybrid zones.

Finished projects

Genotypes and phenotypes associated with Y chromosome introgression in the European house mouse hybrid zone: comparison among transects (2017–2019)
High resolution genomic analysis of introgression across a species barrier (2015–2017)

Education

  • 1990: BSc Ord Computer Science (non graduating) – The University of Edinburgh.
  • 1991: BSc Hons (Zoology) – The University of Edinburgh, (class medallist).
  • 1995: Ph.D. – The University of Edinburgh, Population genetics.
  • 2005-present: Chargé de Recherche (première class) INRA, Paris (Med ed disponibilité 2008).

Employment

  • 2012-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of Population Biology Studenec – researcher.
  • 2012-present: University of Antwerpen, Belgium – affiliate researcher.
  • 2008-present: Universidade do Porto, Portugal – Associate Professor.
  • 2003-2008: Chargé de Recherche (1st class), INRA. CBGP Montpellier, France.
  • 2001-2003: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, USA – associate research.
  • 1999-2001: University of Queensland, Australia – ARC associate research.
  • 1999-1999: Université de Montpellier II, France – CNRS visiting fellowship.
  • 1997-1999: University of Indiana, USA – NSF Postdoctoral fellowship.
  • 1995-1996: The University of Edinburgh, UK – NERC Post-Doctoral Research Assistant.
  • 1995-1995: Université de Montpellier II, France – ESF Short Visiting Fellowship.

Recent Invited Contribution

  • March-April 2012: Frontiers of Speciation (FroSpects) summer school, European Science Foundation (ESF), Pruhonice, Czech Republic.
  • March-April 2012: Programming for Evolutionary Biology Workshop, funding: VolkswagenStiftung, Leipzig, Germany.
  • January 2011: International Conference of Landscape Genetics, plenary: Spatial Coalescent Methods and Phylogeography, Bialowieza, Poland.
  • January 2010: International Biogeography Society (IBS) Conference, talk: Spatial Coalescent Methods and Phylogeography, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
  • October 2010: European Science Foundation (ESF) Frontiers of Speciation (FroSpects) one-day symposium, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • January 2010: Marie Curie Initial Training Network: Speciation. Workshop: Genetics and Genomics of Speciation, Losehill Hall, UK.
  • May 2009: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket): Conservation genetics workshop – Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 2008: ESF Conservation genetics summer school – Liblice, Czech Republic.
  • 2008: ARC workshop Modelling cane toad invasion dynamics – TERF, NT, Australia.
  • 2007: ARC Research Network: Understanding recent evolutionary history of Australian Biota: Phylogeography and Coalescence Workshop – Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
  • 2007: DNA Sampling workshop – Design of geographic sampling strategies – Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France.

Academic service

  • reviewer – Evolution, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Heredity, Current Biology, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics, Conservation Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Avian Biology.

Publications and Applied outputs

2025

Ebdon S, Laetsch D, Vila R, Baird SJE, Lohse K (2025). Genomic regions of current low hybridisation mark long-term barriers to gene flow in scarce swallowtail butterflies. PLoS Genetics, 21: e1011655.

2024

Gaczorek T, Dudek K, Fritz U, Bahri-Sfar L, Baird SJE, Bonhomme F, Dufresnes C, Gvoždík V, Irwin D, Kotlík P, Marková S, McGinnity P, Migalska M, Moravec J, Natola L, Pabijan M, Phillips KP, Schöneberg Y, Souissi A, Radwan J, Babik W (2024). Widespread adaptive introgression of major histocompatibility complex genes across vertebrate hybrid zones. Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae201.
Goüy de Bellocq J, Baird SJE, Fornůsková A (2024). Use of zoo mice in study of lymphocytic choriomeningitis mammarenavirus, Germany.. Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Macholán M, Baird SJE, Fornůsková A, Ďureje Ľ, Burgstaller JP, Goüy de Bellocq J, Heitlinger E, Klusáčková P, Koshev Y, Piálek J (2024). A reappraisal of mitochondrial DNA introgression in the Mus musculus musculus/Mus musculus domesticus hybrid zone suggests ancient North-European associations between mice and humans. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae110.

2023

Baird SJE, Petružela J, Jaroň I, Škrabánek P, Martínková N (2023). Genome polarisation for detecting barriers to geneflow. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Baird SJE, Hiadlovská Z, Daniszová K, Piálek J, Macholán M (2023). A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier. Evolution.
Cuypers LN, Gryseels S, Van Houtte N, Baird SJE, Sabuni CA, Katakweba AS, van den Burg SRM, Bryja J, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J (2023). Subspecific rodent taxa as the relevant host taxonomic level for mammarenavirus host specificity. Virology.
Giakoumis M, Pinilla-Buitrago GE, Musher LJ, Wares JP, Baird SJE, Hickerson MJ (2023). Evidence of introgression, ecological divergence and adaptation in Asterias sea stars. Molecular Ecology.
Hánová A, Bryja J, Goüy de Bellocq J, Baird SJE, Cuypers L, Konečný A, Mikula O (2023). Historical demography and climatic niches of the Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) in the Zambezian region. Mammalian Biology.

2022

Cuypers LN, Sabuni C, Šumbera R, Aghová T, Lišková E, Leirs H, Baird SJE, Goüy de Bellocq J, Bryja J (2022). Biogeographical importance of the Livingstone Mountains in southern Tanzania: comparative genetic structure of small non-volant mammals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 742851.
Jaron KS, Hodson CN, Ellers J, Baird SJE, Ross L (2022). Genomic evidence of paternal genome elimination in the globular springtail Allacma fusca. Genetics, iyac117.

2021

Nürnberger B, Baird SJE, Čížková D, Bryjová A, Mudd AB, Blaxter ML, Szymura JM (2021). A dense linkage map for a large repetitive genome: discovery of the sex-determining region in hybridizing fire-bellied toads (Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata). G3-Genes, Genomes, Genetics, jkab286.

2020

Balard A, Jarquín-Díaz VH, Jost J, Martincová I, Ďureje Ľ, Piálek J, Macholán M, Goüy de Bellocq J, Baird SJE, Heitlinger E (2020). Intensity of infection with intracellular Eimeria spp. and pinworms is reduced in hybrid mice compared to parental subspecies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Bisschop G, Setter D, Rafajlović M, Baird SJE, Lohse K (2020). The impact of global selection on local adaptation and reproductive isolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 20190531.
Cuypers LN, Baird SJE, Hánová A, Locus T, Katakweba AS, Gryseels S, Bryja J, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J (2020). Three arenaviruses in three subspecific natal multimammate mouse taxa in Tanzania: same host specificity, but different spatial genetic structure?. Virus Evolution, 6: veaa039.
Martínková N, Baird SJE, Káňa V, Zima J (2020). Bat population recoveries give insight into clustering strategies during hibernation. Frontiers in Zoology, 26.

2019

Baird SJE, Goüy de Bellocq J (2019). Shifting paradigms for studying parasitism in hybridising hosts: response to Theodosopoulos, Hund, and Taylor. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
Petružela J, Bryja J, Bryjová A, Katakweba A, Sabuni C, Baird SJE, Goüy de Bellocq J (2019). Evolutionary history of Pneumocystis fungi in their African rodent hosts. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 103934.

2018

Čížková D, Baird SJE, Těšíková J, Voigt S, Ďureje Ľ, Piálek J, Goüy de Bellocq J (2018). Host subspecific viral strains in European house mice: Murine cytomegalovirus in the Eastern (Mus musculus musculus) and Western house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus). Virology.
Goüy de Bellocq J, Wasimuddin W, Ribas A, Bryja J, Piálek J, Baird SJE (2018). Holobiont suture zones: Parasite evidence across the European house mouse hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology.

2017

Baird SJE (2017). The impact of high-throughput sequencing technology on speciation research: maintaining perspective. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Gryseels S, Baird SJE, Borremans B, Makundi R, Leirs H, Goüy de Bellocq J (2017). When viruses don’t go viral: the importance of host phylogeographic structure in the spatial spread of arenaviruses. PLoS Pathogens, e1006073.

2016

Dufresnes C, Majtyka T, Baird SJE, Gerchen JF, Borzée A, Savary R, Ogielska M, Perrin N, Stöck M (2016). Empirical evidence for large X-effects in animals with undifferentiated sex chromosomes. Scientific Reports.
Gryseels S, Goüy de Bellocq J, Makundi R, Vanmechelen K, Broeckhove J, Mazoch V, Šumbera R, Zima Jr. J, Leirs H, Baird SJE (2016). Genetic distinction between contiguous urban and rural multimammate mice in Tanzania despite gene flow. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Wasimuddin W, Bryja J, Ribas A, Baird SJE, Piálek J, Goüy de Bellocq J (2016). Testing parasite "intimacy": the whipworm Trichuris muris in the European house mouse hybrid zone. Ecology and Evolution.

2015

Baird SJE (2015). Exploring linkage disequilibrium. Molecular Ecology Resources.
Goüy de Bellocq J, Baird SJE, Albrechtová J, Sobeková K, Piálek J (2015). Murine cytomegalovirus is not restricted to the house mouse Mus musculus domesticus: prevalence and genetic diversity in the European house mouse hybrid zone. Journal of Virology.
Kubelová M, Papoušek I, Bělohlávek T, Goüy de Bellocq J, Baird SJE, Široký P (2015). Spotted fever group rickettsiae detected in immature stages of ticks parasitizing on Iberian endemic lizard Lacerta schreiberi Bedriaga, 1878. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.
Phillips BL, Baird SJE (2015). Spatial sorting unlikely to promote maladaptive hybridization: response to Lowe, Muhlfeld, and Allendorf. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

2012

Baird SJE, Ribas A, Macholán M, Albrecht T, Piálek J, Goüy de Bellocq J (2012). Where are the wormy mice? A re-examination of hybrid parasitism in the European house mouse hybrid zone. Evolution.
Ďureje Ľ, Macholán M, Baird SJE, Piálek J (2012). The mouse hybrid zone in Central Europe: from morphology to molecules. Folia zoologica.
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