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    Dr. Robert Peuß
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    Dr. Robert Peuß
    Research Group Animal Evolutionary Ecology (Prof. Kurtz)
    Room 110
    Hüfferstrasse 1
    48149 Münster
    Tel: +49 251 83-32550
    robertpeuss@uni-muenster.de
    Consultation hours: Wed.-Fr.: 9.00-10.00 a.m.
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    • Research Areas

      • Evolutionary Physiology
      • Eco-Immunology
    • CV

      Education

      2009 - 2016
      Dissertation
      2006 - 2009
      M.Sc. Biology
      2003 - 2006
      B.Sc. Biology

      Positions

      since 2020
      Senior Lecturer
      2016 - 2020
      Senior Research Associate
    • Teaching

      Summer Term 2023

      • Projektveranstaltung: *+) Animal Evolutionary Ecology [132174]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas, Dr. Nora Schulz)
      • Praktikum/Seminar: *) Meditterranean fauna [132211]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas)
        [n. V. | Dr. Robert Peuß]
      • Praktikum: *+) Ecological Immunology and Host-Parasite Coevolution [132176]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas, Dr. Nora Schulz)
        [n. V. | Dr. Robert Peuß]

      Winter Term 2022/23

      • Projektveranstaltung: *+) Animal Evolutionary Ecology [130110]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas)
      • Übung: *) Laboratory course: Animal evolution and biodiversity [130107]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau, Dr. Lukas Schrader, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas, Dr. Jan Büllesbach, Jürgen Schmitz)
        [12.12.2022 - 30.01.2023 | 08:00 - 12:00 | wöchentlich | Mo. | MB K8 | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau]
        [13.12.2022 - 31.01.2023 | 08:00 - 12:00 | wöchentlich | Di. | MB K8 | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau]
        [14.12.2022 - 01.02.2023 | 08:00 - 12:00 | wöchentlich | Mi. | MB K8 | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau]
        [15.12.2022 - 02.02.2023 | 08:00 - 12:00 | wöchentlich | Do. | MB K8 | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau]
        [16.12.2022 - 03.02.2023 | 08:00 - 12:00 | wöchentlich | Fr. | MB K8 | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau]
      • Blockpraktikum: *) Animal Evolutionary Ecology [130109]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau, Dr. Lukas Schrader, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Mark Lammers, Dr. Francesco Catania, Dr. Jan Büllesbach)
        [24.10.2022 - 16.12.2022 | 10:00 - 18:00 | Blockveranstaltung (Mo-Fr) | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau]
      • Praktikum/Seminar: *) Integrative Biology [130183]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas, Dr. Mark Harrison, apl. Prof. Sylvia Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Bodo Philipp, Dr. Carsten Kemena, Prof. Dr. Ivan Berg, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Markus Schwarzländer, Priv.-Doz. Maik Bartelheimer, Dr. Mark Lammers, Julia Göhner, Prof. Dr. Karin Busch, Prof. Dr. Till Ischebeck, Prof. Dr. Martin Bähler, Dr. Peter Czuppon, Prof. Dr. Iris Finkemeier, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau, Dr. Lukas Schrader, Prof. Dr. Ralf Stanewsky, Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Prof. Dr. Melanie Dammhahn, Prof. Dr. Helene Richter, Dr. Jürgen Eirich)
        [Mo., 24.10.2022, 10:00 - 18:00 | Festsaal | Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler]
        [Di., 25.10.2022, 10:00 - 18:00 | Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler]
        [Mi., 26.10.2022, 10:00 - 18:00 | Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler]
        [Do., 27.10.2022, 10:00 - 18:00 | Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler]
        [Fr., 28.10.2022, 10:00 - 18:00 | HHü | Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler]
        [Fr., 18.11.2022, 10:00 - 18:00 | HHü | Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler]
      • Praktikum/Seminar: *) Host-Parasite-Coevolution [130111]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas)
        [06.02.2023 - 03.03.2023 | 10:00 - 18:00 | Blockveranstaltung (Mo-Fr) | HHü | Dr. Robert Peuß]
      • Praktikum: *+) Ecological Immunology and Host-Parasite Coevolution [130112]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas)
        [n. V. | Dr. Robert Peuß]

      Summer Term 2022

      • Projektveranstaltung: *+) Animal Evolutionary Ecology [138151]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas)
      • Praktikum: *+) Ecological Immunology and Host-Parasite Coevolution [138153]
        (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Jaime Anaya-Rojas)
    • Current Projects

      in process
      • The influence of parasite diversity on the evolution and function of the immune system of the Mexcian Cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus (since 2020)
        Own resources project
      • CRC TRR 212 B06 - Genetic and phenotypic characterisation of immunological niche conformance in cavefish (2022 - 2025)
        Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted outside WWU: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre | Project Number: TRR 212/2
      finished
      • SPP 1399 - Work package: Coevulution between Tribolium castaneum and Bacillus thuringiensis: On the evolutionary significance of genetic specificity and specific immunity. (2009 - 2012)
        Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at WWU: DFG - Priority Programme | Project Number: KU 1929/4-1:1
    • Publications

      2023

      • Olsen, Luke; Levy, Michaella; Medley, Kyle J; Hassan, Huzaifa; Miller, Brandon; Alexander, Richard; Wilcock, Emma; Yi, Kexi; Florens, Laurence; Weaver, Kyle; McKinney, Sean A; Peuß, Robert; Persons, Jenna; Kenzior, Alexander; Maldonado, Ernesto; Delventhal, Kym; Gluesenkamp, Andrew; Mager, Edward; Coughlin, David; Rohner, Nicolas. 2023. ‘Metabolic reprogramming underlies cavefish muscular endurance despite loss of muscle mass and contractility.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120, No. 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2204427120.

      2022

      • Xiong S, Wang W, Kenzior A, Olsen L, Krishnan J, Persons J, Medley K, Peuß R, Wang Y, Chen S, Zhang N, Thomas N, Miles JM, Alvarado AS, Rohner N. 2022. ‘Enhanced lipogenesis through Pparγ helps cavefish adapt to food scarcity.’ Current biology . doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.038.
      • Krishnan, Jaya; Seidel, Chris W.; Zhang, Ning; Singh, Narendra P.; VanCampen, Jake; Peuß, Robert; Xiong, Shaolei; Kenzior, Alexander; Li, Hua; Conaway, Joan W.; Rohner, Nicolas. 2022. ‘Genome-wide analysis of cis-regulatory changes underlying metabolic adaptation of cavefish.’ Nature Genetics 54: 684–693. doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01049-4.
      • Medley, Kyle J; Persons, Jenna; Biswas, Tathagata; Olsen, Luke; Peuß, Robert; Krishnan, Jaya; Xiong, Shaolei; Rohner, Nicolas. 2022. ‘The metabolome of Mexican cavefish shows a convergent signature highlighting sugar, antioxidant, and Ageing-Related metabolites.’ eLife 11, No. e74539. doi: 10.7554/eLife.74539.
      • Krishnan, Jaya; Wang, Yan; Kenzior, Olga; Hassan, Huzaifa; Olsen, Luke; Tsuchiya, Dai; Kenzior, Alexander; Peuß, Robert; Xiong, Shaolei; Wang, Yongfu; Zhao, Chongbei; Rohner, Nicolas. 2022. ‘Liver-derived cell lines from cavefish Astyanax mexicanus as an in vitro model for studying metabolic adaptation.’ Scientific Reports 12, No. 10115. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14507-0.
      • Schulz, Nora K. E.; Mohamed, Fakry F.; Lo, Lai Ka; Peuß, Robert; de Buhr, Maike F.; Kurtz, Joachim. 2022. ‘Paternal knockdown of tRNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase (Dnmt2 ) increases offspring susceptibility to infection in red flour beetles.’ Insect Molecular Biology 2022. doi: 10.1111/imb.12798.

      2021

      • Accorsi A, Box AC, Peuß R, Wood C, Sánchez Alvarado A, Rohner N. 2021. ‘Image3C, a multimodal image-based and label-independent integrative method for single-cell analysis.’ eLife 10: e65372C1 - eLife 2021;10:e65372DO - 10.7554/eLife.65372. doi: 10.7554/eLife.65372.
      • Warren WC, Boggs TE, Borowsky R, Carlson BM, Ferrufino E, Gross JB, Hillier L, Hu Z, Keene AC, Kenzior A, Kowalko JE, Tomlinson C, Kremitzki M, Lemieux ME, Graves-Lindsay T, McGaugh SE, Miller JT, Mommersteeg MTM, Moran RL, Peuß R, Rice ES, Riddle MR, Sifuentes-Romero I, Stanhope BA, Tabin CJ, Thakur S, Yamamoto Y, Rohner N. 2021. ‘A chromosome-level genome of Astyanax mexicanus surface fish for comparing population-specific genetic differences contributing to trait evolution.’ Nature Communications 12, No. 1: 1447. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21733-zDO-10.1038/s41467-021-21733-z.

      2020

      • Peuß R, Box AC, Chen S, Wang Y, Tsuchiya D, Persons JL, Kenzior A, Maldonado E, Krishnan J, Scharsack JP, Slaughter BD, Rohner N. 2020. ‘Adaptation to low parasite abundance affects immune investment and immunopathological responses of cavefish.’ Nature Ecology and Evolution 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1234-2.
      • Krishnan J, Persons JL, Peuß R, Hassan H, Kenzior A, Xiong S, Olsen L, Maldonado E, Kowalko JE, Rohner N. 2020. ‘Comparative transcriptome analysis of wild and lab populations of Astyanax mexicanus uncovers differential effects of environment and morphotype on gene expression.’ Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 1-10. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22933.

      2019

      • Ferro K, Peuß R, Yang W, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg H, Kurtz J. 2019. ‘Experimental evolution of immunological specificity.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1904828116.
      • Loomis C, Peuß R, Jaggard JB, Wang Y, McKinney SA, Raftopoulos SC, Raftopoulos A, Whu D, Green M, McGaugh SE, Rohner N, Keene AC, Duboue ER. 2019. ‘An Adult Brain Atlas Reveals Broad Neuroanatomical Changes in Independently Evolved Populations of Mexican Cavefish.’ Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 13: 88. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2019.00088.
      • Peuß R, Zakibe Z, Krishnan J, Merryman MS, Baumann DP, Rohner N. 2019. ‘Gamete Collection and In Vitro Fertilization of Astyanax mexicanus.’ Journal of Visualized Experiments 2019, No. 147: e59334.
      • Stahl BA, Peuß R, McDole B, Kenzior A, Jaggard JB, Gaudenz K, Krishnan J, McGaugh SE, Duboue ER, Keene AC. 2019. ‘Stable transgenesis in Astyanax mexicanus using the Tol2 transposase system.’ Developmental Dynamics 248, No. 8: 679–687. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.32.

      2018

      • Xiong S, Krishnan J, Peuß R, Rohner N. 2018. ‘Early adipogenesis contributes to excess fat accumulation in cave populations of Astyanax mexicanus.’ Developmental Biology 441, No. 2: 297–304. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.06.003.
      • Riddle MR, Aspiras AC, Gaudenz K, Peuß R, Sung JY, Martineau B, Peavey M, Box AC, Tabin JA, McGaugh S. 2018. ‘Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment.’ Nature 555, No. 7698: 647–651. doi: 10.1038/nature26136.

      2017

      • Greenwood JM, Milutinović B, Peuß R, Behrens S, Esser D, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg H, Kurtz J. 2017. ‘Oral immune priming with Bacillus thuringiensis induces a shift in the gene expression of Tribolium castaneum larvae.’ BMC Genomics 18, No. 1: 329.

      2016

      • Milutinovic B, Peuß R, Ferro K, Kurtz J. 2016. ‘Immune priming in arthropods: an update focusing on the red flour beetle.’ Zoology 119. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.006.
      • Peuß R, Wensing KU, Woestmann L, Eggert H, Milutinović B, Sroka MGU, Scharsack JP, Kurtz J, Armitage SAO. 2016. ‘Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule 1: testing for a role in insect immunity, behaviour and reproduction.’ Royal Society Open Science 3, No. 4: 160138.

      2015

      • Peuß R, Eggert H, Armitage SAO, Kurtz J. 2015. ‘Downregulation of the evolutionary capacitor Hsp90 is mediated by social cues.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2041.
      • Armitage SAO, Peuß R, Kurtz J,. 2015. ‘Dscam and pancrustacean immune memory - A review of the evidence.’ Developmental and Comparative Immunology 48. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2014.03.004.

      2014

      • Behrens S, Peuß R, Milutinović B, Eggert H, Esser D, Rosenstiel P, Schulenburg H, Bornberg-Bauer E, Kurtz J. 2014. ‘Infection routes matter in population-specific responses of the red flour beetle to the entomopathogen Bacillus thuringiensis.’ BMC Genomics 16, No. 1: 445.

      2013

      • Milutinovic B, Stolpe C, Peuß R, Armitage SAO, Kurtz J. 2013. ‘The red flour beetle as a model for bacterial oral infections.’ PLoS ONE 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064638.
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    • Teaching and Education
      • Research Training group 2220 EvoPAD
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      • Special Study Program (SSP) - Evolution & Biocomplexity

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