| Müller, Kai, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. |  | ||||
| Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Institut für Evolution und Biodiversität AG Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen Hüfferstr. 1 48149 Münster Tel: + 49 - 251 - 83 21645 Fax: + 49 - 251 - 83 24668 E-mail: kaimueller  net: http://ieb.uni-muenster.de/groups | |||||
| wissenschaftlicher Werdegang | |||||
| - 2009 Professur für Botanik, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU Münster - 2006 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Assistent professor) at the Nees Institute (Bonn, Prof. Barthlott), head of the Systematics and Evolution working group and lab. - 2006 Postdoc at the lab of Prof. C. dePamphilis, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA. - 2005 Promotion as Dr. rer. nat. with the thesis „Evolution of Amaranthaceae - A case study integrating molecular phylogenetics and pollen data“, PhD supervisor Prof. W. Barthlott (Universität Bonn), summa cum laude. - 1996- 2001 University course in Biology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. - 2002- 2005 Occupation at the Nees Institute. PhD Student in the DFG project „Phylogeny of the Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae alliance and pollen evolution“ of Dr. T. Borsch; supervisor: Prof. W. Barthlott. - 2001 Graduation from Bonn University (Diploma in Biology); main subject Botany, minor subjects Zoology and Chemistry; Diploma thesis titled „A phylogenetic analysis of Lentibulariaceae based on sequences of matK and adjacent non-coding regions“; grade 1.0, mark of distinction (supervisor: Prof. W. Barthlott). Awards/Honours • 2007 Elected member of the Young Academy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences (Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften). • 2005 Scholarship of the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung. • 2004 Biodiversity Award 2004 of the Academy of Sciences Mainz (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz). • 2001 PhD scholarship of the Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung. • 1996 Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). | |||||
| Lehrschwerpunkte | |||||
| - Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen - Botanische Exkursionen - Molekulare Phylogenetik - Bioinformatik - Phylogenomik | |||||
| Forschungsschwerpunkte | |||||
| - Evolution of angiosperm carnivory - Indel evolution - DNA sequence alignment for phylogenetic analysis - Eudicot evolution - Phylogenetic signal in highly variable chloroplast DNA markers - Bioinformatics: software development - Genome evolution Parasitic plants | |||||
| ausgewählte Projekte | |||||
| - DFG: Carnivory in Lamiales - Understanding character evolution - substitution rate plasticity - genome miniaturization | |||||
| ausgewählte Publikationen | |||||
| Stöver
B, Müller K F (2010) TreeGraph 2: Combining and visualizing evidence
from different phylogenetic analyses. BMC Bioinformatics, 11, 7
(doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-7) Knoop V, Müller K (2008) Gene und Stammbäume - Ein Handbuch zur molekularen Phylogenetik. Zweite, überarbeitete und stark erweiterte Auflage [textbook on molecular phylogenetics, 2nd edtition]. Spektrum, Heidelberg. 398 pp. Jansen R K, Cai Z, Daniell H, Raubeson L, DePamphilis C W, Leebens-Mack J, Müller K F, Guisinger-Bellian M, Haberle R C, Hansen A K, Chumley T W, Lee S-B, Peery R, McNeal J R, Kuehl J V, Boore J L (2007) Analysis of 81 Genes from 64 Chloroplast Genomes Resolves Relationships in Angiosperms and Identifies Genome-Scale Evolutionary Patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, 19369-19374 Wall P K, Leebens-Mack J, Müller K F, Field Dawn, Altman N S, dePamphilis C W (2008) PlantTribes: A gene and gene family resource for comparative genomics in plants. Nucleic Acids Research, 36, D970-D976. Müller K F (2006) Incorporating information from length-mutational events into phylogenetic analysis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 38, 667-676. Aktuelle Liste unter http://ieb.uni-muenster.de/plantsevol/publications
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