Projects
Candidates for PhD positions (see PhD1 topics): please send applications exclusively via the advertisment portal at http://obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/Index/74570. Please indicate your preferred project(s) in your motivation letter.
Project A1: Comparative analyses of genome evolution in sexual and asexual cirratulid annelids across time and space (Christoph Bleidorn; cbleido@gwdg.de). Department Animal Evolution and Biodiversity link.
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Project A2: Sexual and asexual genome evolution in flowering plants (Elvira Hörandl; ehoeran@gwdg.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 (Stefanie Pöggeler; Stefanie.Poeggeler@biologie.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 (Jochen Rink; jochen.rink@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 (Rolf Daniel; rdaniel@gwdg.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 (Ines Friedrich; ines.friedrich@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 (Jan de Vries; devries.jan@uni-goettingen.de). Dept. of Applied Bioinformatics link.
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Project B4: Evolutionary consequences of inheritance-coupled symbiont transmission (Sophie de Vries; sophie.devries@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) (Stefan Scheu, Mark Maraun; sscheu@gwdg.de; Mark.Maraun@biologie.uni-goettingen.de). Deptartment Animal Ecology link.
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Project C1: Leveraging Hi-C to map regulatory chromosomal 3D architectures (Argyris Papantonis; argyris.papantonis@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 (Johannes Söding; soeding@mpinat.mpg.de). Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Dept. of Computational Biology link.
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