Biodiversity Genomics Group

Stefan Prost, Dr.

Assistant Professor

stefan.prost@oulu.fi

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Keywords

Wildlife & Conservation Genomics
Wildlife Forensics
Bioinformatics
aDNA

Current Projects

Cheetah
Cheetah
Flying Squirrel
Flying Squirrel
Baltic Baywatch
Baltic Baywatch
eDNA for Diversity and Nature Awareness
eDNA for Diversity and Nature Awareness
eDNA based Biodiversity Monitoring
eDNA based Biodiversity Monitoring
Local Adaptations in African Mammals
Local Adaptations in African Mammals
Galápagos Giant Tortoise
Galápagos Giant Tortoise
Ptarmigan
Ptarmigan

Grants & Fundings

2024, travel grant, Nordplus
Travel grant for traveling to Svalbard and exploring joint teaching opportunities with UNIS

About me

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Outreach

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Publications

2025

Peer-reviewed Publication: Wehrenberg, G., Kiebler, A., Greve, C., Beltrán-Sanz, N., Ben Hamadou, A., Meißner, R., Winter, S., & Prost, S. (2025). A Prelude to Conservation Genomics: First Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of a Flying Squirrel (Pteromyini: Pteromys volans). Ecology and Evolution, e71905. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71905
Peer-reviewed Publication: Winter, S., Meißner, R., Grethlein, M., Wehrenberg, G., Kiebler, A., Silva, A. X., Escobar, N. R., Quesada Calderón, S. M., Suescún, A. V., Guzman Belmar, L., & Prost, S. (2025). Chromosome-Level genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of the ural owl, Strix uralensis PALLAS, 1771. Journal of Heredity, esaf038. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf038
Peer-reviewed Publication: Prost, S., Elbers, J. P., Slezacek, J., Hykollari, A., Fuselli, S., Smith, S., & Fusani, L. (2025). The unexpected loss of the ‘hunger hormone’ ghrelin in true passerines: a game changer in migration physiology. Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), 242107. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242107
Peer-reviewed Publication: Schöneberg, Y., Audisio, T. L., Ben Hamadou, A., Forman, M., Král, J., Kořínková, T., Líznarová, E., Mayer, C., Prokopcová, L., Krehenwinkel, H., Prost, S., & Kennedy, S. (2025). Three Novel Spider Genomes Unveil Spidroin Diversification and Hox Cluster Architecture: Ryuthela nishihirai (Liphistiidae), Uloborus plumipes (Uloboridae) and Cheiracanthium punctorium (Cheiracanthiidae). Molecular Ecology Resources, 25(1), e14038. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14038

2024

Preprint: da Silva, M. J. F., Colmonero-Costeira, I., Djaló, M., Fernandes, N., Camara, T., Sá, R. M., Minhós, T., Kiebler, A., Grethlein, M., Pikkarainen, N., & Prost, S. (2024). Miniaturised laboratorial equipment as a solution to implement conservation genetics tools and education in West African countries with limited infrastructures: an application to the study of illegal wildlife trade in Guinea-Bissau. bioRxiv, 2024-09. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.30.615830
Preprint: Ito dos Santos, F., Lilley, T., Laine, V. N., Prost, S., Kurhinen, J., Susi, H., Gashev, S., Saveljev, A., Bondarchuk, S., Babina, S., Shishikin, A., Tirski, D., Vasina, A., Karpin, V., & Kekkonen, J. A. (2024). Population structure of the endangered Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) revealed by genomic and mitochondrial data. bioRxiv, 2024-09. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.13.612918
Peer-reviewed Publication: Olli, S., Lam, N. T., Hiljanen, S., Kettunen, T., Haikonen, L., Hyvönen, H. M., Kiebler, A., Köngäs, I., Minkkinen, S., Pöykiö, V., Sannikka, V., Vesa, R., Wehrenberg, G., Prost, S., & Prous, M. (2024). Large mitochondrial genomes in tenthredinid sawflies (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2024.2427206
Peer-reviewed Publication: Fuhrmann, N., Brasseur, M. V., Bakowski, C. E., Podsiadlowski, L., Prost, S., Krehenwinkel, H., & Mayer, C. (2024). Chromosome-level genome assembly of the viviparous eelpout Zoarces viviparus. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(8), evae155. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae155
Peer-reviewed Publication: Blom, M. P., Peona, V., Prost, S., Christidis, L., Benz, B. W., Jønsson, K. A., Suh, A., & Irestedt, M. (2024). Hybridization in birds-of-paradise: Widespread ancestral gene flow despite strong sexual selection in a lek-mating system. Iscience, 27(7). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110300
Peer-reviewed Publication: Gajski, D., Wolff, J. O., Melcher, A., Weber, S., Prost, S., Krehenwinkel, H., & Kennedy, S. R. (2024). Facilitating taxonomy and phylogenetics: An informative and cost-effective protocol integrating long amplicon PCRs and third-generation sequencing. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 192, 107988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107988
Peer-reviewed Publication: Meißner, R., Mokgokong, P., Pretorius, C., Winter, S., Labuschagne, K., Kotze, A., Prost, S., Horin, P., Dalton, D., & Burger, P. A. (2024). Diversity of selected toll-like receptor genes in cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) and African leopards (Panthera pardus pardus). Scientific Reports, 14(1), 3756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54076-y

2023

Peer-reviewed Publication: Winter, S., Meißner, R., Greve, C., Ben Hamadou, A., Horin, P., Prost, S., & Burger, P. A. (2023). A chromosome-scale high-contiguity genome assembly of the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus). Journal of Heredity, 114(3), 271-278. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad015
Peer-reviewed Publication: Mozer, A., & Prost, S. (2023). An introduction to illegal wildlife trade and its effects on biodiversity and society. Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments, 3, 100064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsiae.2023.100064