Projects
Project A1: Comparative analyses of genome evolution in sexual and asexual cirratulid annelids across time and space (PI: Prof. Christoph Bleidorn; cbleido@gwdg.de; PhD student: Thilo Schulze, thilo.schulze@uni-goettingen.de). Department Animal Evolution and Biodiversity link.
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Project A2: Sexual and asexual genome evolution in flowering plants (PI: Prof. Elvira Hörandl; ehoeran@gwdg.de; PhD student Smriti Rathee, smriti.rathee@uni-goettingen.de). Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium) link.
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Project A3: Heterothallic and homothallic genome evolution in the fungal genus Sordaria (PI: Prof. Stefanie Pöggeler; Stefanie.Poeggeler@biologie.uni-goettingen.de; PhD student: Chi Ting Chung, chi-ting.chung@uni-goettingen.de).
Department of Genetics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms link.
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Project A4: Genomic causes and consequences of asexuality in the planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea (PI: Prof. Jochen Rink; jochen.rink@mpinat.mpg.de; PhD student Marina Lorenzo, marina.lorenzo@mpinat.mpg.de). Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration link.
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Project B1: Role of different phage types as drivers of host pangenome structure and evolution (PI: Prof. Rolf Daniel; rdaniel@gwdg.de; PhD student: Vasundhara Karthikeyan, vasundhara.karthikeyan@uni-goettingen.de). Dept. of Genomic and Applied Microbiology & Göttingen Genomics Laboratory link.
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Project B2: Investigation of the interaction between phages, bacteria and plants (PI: Dr. Ines Friedrich; ines.friedrich@uni-goettingen.de; PhD student: Jana Wagner, jana.wagner1@uni-goettingen.de). Dept. of Genomic and Applied Microbiology & Göttingen Genomics Laboratory. link.
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Project B3: Consequences of endosymbiotic gene transfer and mosaicism in embryophyte pathways (PI: Prof. Jan de Vries; devries.jan@uni-goettingen.de; PhD student: Erika Endriulaitytè, erika.endriulaityte@uni-goettingen.de). Dept. of Applied Bioinformatics link.
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Project B4: Evolutionary consequences of inheritance-coupled symbiont transmission (PI: Dr. Sophie de Vries; sophie.devries@uni-goettingen.de; PhD student Ellen Sigourney Lorberg; ellensigourney.lorberg@uni-goettingen.de). Dept. of Applied Bioinformatics link.
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Project B5: Genomic consequences of sexual and parthenogenetic reproduction for the co-evolutionary patterns of the mito-nuclear complex in oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) (PIs: Prof. Stefan Scheu, Prof. Mark Maraun; sscheu@gwdg.de; Prof. Mark.Maraun@biologie.uni-goettingen.de; PhD student: Finn Luca Klemp, finnluca.klemp@uni-goettingen.de). Department Animal Ecology link.
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Project C1: Leveraging Hi-C to map regulatory chromosomal 3D architectures (PI: Prof. Argyris Papantonis; argyris.papantonis@med.uni-goettingen.de; PhD student: Pengfei Yin, pengfei.yin@med.uni-goettingen.de). University Medical Center Göttingen, Transnational Epigenetics link.
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Project C2: Novel methods for analysis of selection using mutation-selection (PI: Prof. Johannes Söding; soeding@mpinat.mpg.de; PhD student: Lasse Reifenrath, lasse.reifenrath@mpinat.mpg.de). Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Dept. of Computational Biology link.
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