Judith Risse

Judith Risse is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Bioinformatics (BIF) department at Wageningen University & Research. Her work focuses on genomic and evolutionary studies, including phylogenomic analysis of plant development, insect adaptation, and microalgal biotechnology. She has contributed to projects involving genome sequencing, transcriptome analysis, and nanopore technologies.

Education: Completed her PhD in Bioinformatics (2014) under Prof. Bisseling and Dr. Leunissen, focusing on text-mining for metabolic pathway reconstruction.

Research Interests: Floral development in Asteraceae, evolutionary adaptation in insects (e.g., field crickets), and genomic mechanisms of stress tolerance in microalgae. Her work integrates computational biology with experimental genomics.

Publications: Key contributions include studies on dandelion floral genetics (2023), great tit genome inversion analysis (2023), and microalgal thermotolerance (2022). She has also published on cricket genomics (2020) and viral photosynthesis interactions (2022).

Projects: Led a PhD project on text-mining applications in metabolic pathway analysis. Currently involved in collaborative projects on plant and animal genomics.

Labs/Teams: Active in the BIF group at Wageningen, collaborating with institutions like St Andrews University and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology.