STN Members

STRiVE is structured in several working groups addressing the different objectives of the network. Each member contributes to one or several of them, favouring the dynamism of our community. If you want to join the STN as a contributor, please use this link and indicate the working group you would be interested in joining (or additional initiative you would like to suggest) link coming soon.

If you just want to be informed of our activities you may also sign up for the info mailing list link coming soon.

Management committee

The committee handles administrative and funding aspects of the network:

Claire Mérot (co-lead) - Kay Lucek (co-lead) - Petr Nguyen (financial aspects) - Marcial Escudero - Aurora Ruiz-Herrera - Thomas Aubier - Rishi De-Kayne - Marina Rafajlovic - Rui Faria - Marta Farré

WG Communication

This group manages the website, the mailing lists, youtube channel and social media:

Rishi De-Kayne (lead) - Marcial Escudero - Aurora Ruiz-Herrera - Benjamin Dauphin - Katarina Stuart - Maren Wellenreuther - Marius Roesti - Petr Nguyen

WG Seminars

This group organises the seminar series:

Marina Rafajlovic (lead) - Katie Peichel - Anna Tigano - Marius Roesti - Maren Welenreuther - Claire Mérot

WG Portugal 2026 Conference

This group organises the first scientific meeting in Portugal 2026:

Rui Faria (lead) - Marina Rafajlovic - Jenn Coughlan - Aurora Ruiz-Herrera - Marius Roesti - Zach Gompert - Petr Nguyen - Maren Wellenreuther - Claire Mérot - Benjamin Dauphin

WG JEB Special Issue

This group co-edits a special issue in JEB link coming soon:

Marcial Escudero (lead) - Kay Lucek - Petr Nguyen - Claire Mérot - Aurora Ruiz-Herrera - Rui Faria

WG JEB Review

A group-written review is foreseen for 2027. This group is leading this initiative:

Marta Farré - Marius Roesti - Maren Wellenreuther - Zach Gompert - Alexander Suh - Jenn Coughlan - Katarina Stuart - Benjamin Dauphin - Aurora Ruiz-Herrera - Greg Owens - Marina Rafajlovic - Petr Nguyen - Rui Faria - Rebekah Oomen - Anna Tigano - Marcial Escudero

WG Methods workshops

Several methodological workshops are foreseen for 2027 and later about diverse technical issues with SVs (detection, characterisation, analysis, with different types of data such as short-reads, long-reads, pangenomes, etc). link coming soon

This group is preparing thse workshops:

Marta Farré - Benjamin Dauphin - Claire Mérot - Clément Goubert - Zach Gompert - Paul Battlay - Petr Nguyen - Filip Kolar - Alexander Suh

WG Comparative analysis

This group aims to join datasets and analyses towards a broader-scale understanding of SVs in evolution:

Paul Battlay (lead for RepAdapt) - Marta Farré - Benjamin Dauphin - Claire Mérot - Marcial Escudero - Zach Gompert - Petr Nguyen - Filip Kolar - Alexander Suh - Maren Wellenreuther - Anna Tigano - Rui Faria - Rebekah Oomen - Aurora Ruiz-Herrera

All Members

Full member list coming soon