2025/08 – present: Research Associate in the Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Group, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Germany
2024 – 2025: Associate, University of Nottingham, UK
2021 - 2024: Research Fellow in Evolutionary Genomics, University of Nottingham, UK
2020 - 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics, University of Tehran, Iran
2018 - 2019: Visiting Researcher, Gothenburg University, Sweden
2015 - 2020: Ph.D. in Evolutionary biology (Animal biosystematics), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Research Interest
Evolutionary Genomics
Adaptation
Transposon elements
De novo genes
Population genomics
Phylogenomics
Publications
Abdilzadeh, R., Hämälä, T., Yant, L. (2025) "Genetic load can mean opportunity: parallel reversion to a diploid ancestral ecotype by autotetraploid Cochlearia officinalis." (In Preparation for Molecular Ecology)
Almira MJ, da Silva A., Abdilzadeh R., Escolà G., Llugany M., Poschenrieder C., Busoms S., Yant L. (2025). Local-scale genetic diversity patterns involved in adaptive flowering time variation of A. thaliana natural populations. (In preparation for Plant Communications)
Busoms, S., da Silva, A., Escolà, G., Curran, E., Abdilzadeh, R., Bollmann-Giolai, A., Wilson, M., Bray, S., Poschenrieder, C., Yant, L. (2024) "Cryptic diversity in salinity responses in the context of coastal adaptation in an outcrossing brassica." PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407821121
Abdilzadeh, R.*, Prost, S., Aliabadian, M., Shafaeipour, A., Lei, F., Ahmed Khan, A., & Olsson, U. (2023). "Admixture and introgression obscure evolutionary patterns in lesser whitethroat complex (Curruca curruca; Passeriformes; Aves)." Journal of Avian Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03045
Abdilzadeh, R., Aliabadian, M. & Olsson, U. (2020). "Molecular assessment of the distribution and taxonomy of the Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca complex in Iran, with particular emphasis on the identity of the contentious taxon, zagrossiensis Sarudny, 1911". Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-020-01772-x
Bameri, F., Pourreza, H. R., Taherinia, A. H., Aliabadian, M., Mortezapour, H. R., & Abdilzadeh, R. (2020). "TMTCPT: The Tree Method based on the Taxonomic Categorization and the Phylogenetic Tree for fine-grained categorization". Biosystems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104137
Abdilzadeh, R., Aliabadian, M., & Olsson, U. (2019). "A Molecular Assessment of the Taxonomy of Iranian Sylvia Warblers (Aves; Sylviidae) ". Journal of Genetic Resources, 5 (2), 149-162. https://doi.org/10.22080/jgr.2019.2434
Manaffar R., Abdilzadeh R., Akbarialmajough T., Eskandari A, Ebrahimi S., Saygi Y. (2018). "Population Analysis of some of Turkish and Iranian Parthenogenetic Artemia using Biometric Components". Taxonomy and Biosystematics, NO.35: p. 57-68
R. Abdilzadeh, R. Manaffar, S. Zaree, S. Ebrahimi, A. Eskandari, Y. Saygi (2012). "A Comparison of survival, growth in Artemia populations from Turkey and Iran in laboratory conditions". Journal of Experimental Biology, 5: 41-50
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