Prof. Dr. Jan de Vries

Professor of Applied Bioinformatics

2011 B.Sc. Biology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
2013 M.Sc. Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2016 Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2016-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Canada
2016-2018 DFG Research Fellow
2019 DFG Return Grant, Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
2019-2024 ERC Starting Grant
2019-2021 Junior Professor (tenure track), Department of Applied Bioinformatics at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen
Since 2022 University Professor, Department of Applied Bioinformatics at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen
Since 2024 Speaker of the DFG Priority Program 2237 “MAdLand”

Major Research Interests

Homepage Department/Research Group

https://streptophytes.com
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/613776.html

Selected Recent Publications

Feng X, Zheng J, Irisarri I, [45 co-authors] de Vries J*, Yin Y*. Genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution. Nature Genetics 56: 1018–1031. (2024)

Bierenbroodspot MJ, Darienko T, de Vries S, Fürst-Jansen JMR, Buschmann H, Pröschold T, Irisarri I, de Vries J. Phylogenomic insights into the first multicellular streptophyte. Current Biology 34:670-681.e7

Dadras A, Fürst-Jansen JMR, Darienko T, Krone D, Scholz P, Sun S, Herrfurth C, Rieseberg TP, Irisarri I, Steinkamp R, Hansen M, Buschmann H, Valerius O, Braus GH, Hoecker U, Feussner I, Mutwil M, Ischebeck T, de Vries S, Lorenz M, de Vries J. Environmental gradients reveal stress hubs predating plant terrestrialization. Nature Plants 9:1419-1438. (2023)

Hess S, Williams SK, Busch A, Irisarri I, Delwiche CF, de Vries S, Darienko T, Roger AJ, Archibald JM, Buschmann H, von Schwartzenberg K, de Vries J. A phylogenomically informed five-order system for the closest relatives of land plants. Current Biology 32: 4473-4482 (2022)

Nishiyama T, Sakayama H, de Vries J, [56 co-authors], Rensing SA. The Chara genome: secondary complexity and implications for plant terrestrialization. Cell 174: 448–464. (2018)

de Vries J, Curtis BA, Gould SB, Archibald JM: Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115: E3471-E3480. (2018)