Mitarbeiter im Fachbereich Biologie
| Acquisti, Claudia, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. |  |
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| Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Evolutionary Functional Genomics Hüfferstr. 1 48149 Münster Tel: + 49 - 251 - 83 21089 Fax: + 49 - 251 - 83 24668 E-mail: Claudia.Acquisti  net: http://ieb.uni-muenster.de/groups |
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| wissenschaftlicher Werdegang | |||||
| Professional Appointments - 2010-present Junior Professor for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, WWU Münster, Germany - 2006-2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA - 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany - 2004-2005 Visiting Scientist, Institute for Molecular Biology, Free University, Berlin, Germany Education - 2005 Ph.D. Complex Systems, University of Pisa, Italy - 2004 M.Sc. Applied Bioinformatics, University of Cologne, Germany - 1999 M.Sc. Molecular Biology, University of Florence, Italy |
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| Lehrschwerpunkte | |||||
| - Bioinformatics, Molecular Evolution - Ecological genetics - Evolutionary ecology |
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| Forschungsschwerpunkte | |||||
| - Comparative genomics - Moelcular evolution - Evolutionary ecology - Biological stoichiometry |
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| ausgewählte Projekte | |||||
| - Comparative genomics of autotrophic species - Material costs of evolutionary change in natural populations - Stoichiogenomics of insect species - Mathematical modelling of nitrogen fluxes in tropical and temperate forests |
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| ausgewählte Publikationen | |||||
| Elser JJ, Acquisti C, Kumar S. 2010. Stoichiogenomics: The evolutionary ecology of macromolecular elemental composition TREE doi:10.1016/j.tree.2010.10.006 He F, Chen WH, Collins S, Acquisti C, Goebel U, Ramos-Onsins S,Lercher MJ, de Meaux J. 2010. Assessing the influence of adjacent gene orientation on the evolution of gene upstream regions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 185, 695-701 Acquisti C, Kumar S, Elser JJ. From elements to biological processes: signatures of nitrogen limitation in the elemental composition of the catabolic apparatus. 2009. Proc. Royal Soc. B 276: 2605-2610 Acquisti C, Elser JJ, Kumar S. Ecological nitrogen limitation has shaped the composition of plant genomes. 2009. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26: 953-956 Acquisti C, Poste G, Curtiss D, Kumar S. 2007. Nullomers: really a matter of natural selection? PLoS ONE 2(10): e1022.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0001022 Collins S, de Meaux J, Acquisti C. Adaptive walks towards a moving optimum. 2007. Genetics 176: 1089-1099 Acquisti C, Kleffe J, Collins S. 2007. Oxygen limitation of transmembrane protein composition over macroevolutionary time scales, Nature 445: 47-52 Acquisti C, Allegrini P, Bogani P, Buiatti M, Catanese E, Fronzoni L, Grigolini P, Mersi G, Palatella L. 2004. In search of low-complexity sequences in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes: how to derive a coherent picture from global and local entropy measures. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 20: 127-137
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