Curriculum Vitae

Since September 2002

Professor, Department of Biology, University of Lille 1, at the Laboratoire de Génétique et Evolution des Populations Végétales (GEPV)

1994-2002

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), at the Laboratoire de Génétique et Ecologie Végétales

1992-1994

Postdoc at the University of Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, in M. Slatkin's lab.

1992

PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium): "Evolution of plant breeding systems: Armeria maritima Mill. (Willd.) as a study case".

1986

Diploma of "Ingénieur Agronome", Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Selected Publications

V. Castric, J. Bechsgaard, MH. Schierup & X. Vekemans, 2008 "Repeated adaptive introgression at a gene under multiallelic balancing selection", Plos Genetics, 4(8): e1000168.

V. Llaurens, S. Billiard, J.B. Leducq, V. Castric, E.K. Klein & X. Vekemans, 2008 "Does frequency-dependent selection with complex dominance interactions accurately predict allelic frequencies at the self-incompatibility locus in Arabidopsis halleri?". Evolution, DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00469.x.

M.H. Schierup & X. Vekemans, 2008: "Genomic consequences of selection on self-incompatibility genes". Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 11:116-122.

S. Stoeckel, V. Castric, S. Mariette & X. Vekemans, 2008: "Unequal allelic frequencies at the self-incompatibility locus within local populations of Prunus avium L. : an effect of population structure?". Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21:889-899.

M. V. Ruggiero, B. Jacquemin, V. Castric & X. Vekemans, 2008: "Hitch-hiking to a locus under balancing selection: high sequence diversity and low population subdivision at the S-locus genomic region in Arabidopsis halleri". Genetics Research, 90: 37-46.

V. Castric & X. Vekemans, 2007: "Evolution under strong balancing selection: how many codons determine specificity at the female self-incompatibility gene SRK in Brassicaceae?". BMC Evol. Biol., 7: 132.

S. Billiard, V. Castric & X. Vekemans, 2007: "A general model to explore complex dominance patterns in plant sporophytic self-incompatibility systems". Genetics, 175: 1351-1369.

D. Charlesworth & X. Vekemans, 2005: "How and when did A. thaliana become highly self-fertilising". BioEssays, 27: 472-476.

V. Castric & X. Vekemans, 2004 : "Plant self-incompatibility in natural populations: a critical assessment of recent theoretical and empirical advances". Molecular Ecology, 13: 2873-2889.

X. Vekemans, O. J. Hardy, 2004 : "New insights from fine-scale spatial genetic structure analyses in plant populations". Molecular Ecology, 13: 921-935.

M. Heuertz, J.-F. Hausman, O. J. Hardy, G. G. Vendramin, N. Frascaria-Lacoste & X. Vekemans, 2004 : "Nuclear microsatellites reveal contrasting patterns of genetic structure between western and southeastern European populations of the common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.)". Evolution, 58: 976-988.

G. May, F.K. Shaw, H. Badrane & X. Vekemans, 1999: "The Signature of Balancing Selection: Fungal Mating Compatibility Gene Evolution". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 96: 9172-9177.

X. Vekemans & M. Slatkin, 1994: "Gene and allelic genealogies at a gametophytic self-incompatibility locus". Genetics, 137: 1157-1165.