Berteloot Olivier

Berteloot Olivier - Postdoctoral fellow

Career path

Olivier graduated with a Master in Biology degree in 2012 at Ghent University. Later, in 2024 he obtained his PhD at the faculty of Bioscience Engineering at his Alma Mater investigating the genetic diversity and molecular gut content of Halyomorpha halys, an invasive stink bug in fruit agriculture. His acquired skills in bioinformatics and data science led him to a postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Biology at VIB, Steven Maere Lab on the GC SOY 2.0 project.

Modeling the evolution of transcriptional systems in silico

Winner's curse

For the past few decades, the field of molecular evolution has largely focused on the evolution of individual gene families and overall genome structure. Analogous to the transition from reductionist to system-scale approaches in molecular biology, the logical next step in molecular evolution research is to study the evolution of genes in the context of the systems in which they function. One way to study how systems of interacting components evolve is to simulate the evolution of suitably abstracted system models in silico.

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