I am a PhD student in evolutionary biology at the University of Basel.

My PhD is supervised by Dieter Ebert and co-supervised by Peter D. Fields, and I am affiliated with the Department of Environmental Sciences, Zoology.

My research focusses on the evolution of metapopulations, i.e., interconnected populations with extinction-(re)colonization dynamics. Specifically, I am interested in the genomic consequences of metapopulation dynamics.

My undergraduate research involved examining and disentangling the effects of population structure, demographic history, geophylogeny, transmission mode, and host-parasite interactions on the genomic diversity of microsporidia, obligate intracellular parasites phylogenetically associated with the fungi.

Selected Publications

Angst, Pascal, Haag, Christoph R, Ben-Ami, Frida, Fields, Peter D, & Ebert, Dieter. (2024). Genome-Wide Allele Frequency Changes Reveal That Dynamic Metapopulations Evolve Differently [Journal-article]. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 41(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae128

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Angst, Pascal, & Ebert, Dieter. (2024). Mikrosporidien-Genome als Fenster zu deren Evolution. BioSpektrum, 30, 49–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-024-2080-6

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Angst, Pascal, Ameline, Camille, Haag, Christoph R., Ben-Ami, Frida, Ebert, Dieter, & Fields, Peter D. (2023). Genetic Drift Shapes the Evolution of a Highly Dynamic Metapopulation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(12), msac264. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac264

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Angst, Pascal, Ebert, Dieter, & Fields, Peter D. (2022). Demographic history shapes genomic variation in an intracellular parasite with a wide geographical distribution. Molecular Ecology, 31(9), 2528–2544. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16419

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