CV
Academic Education
- Dr. rer. nat. (Complex Systems), University of Pisa
- Doctoral studies, University of Pisa (Italy) and Freie Universität Berlin
- Master in Applied Bioinformatics, University of Cologne
- Studies in Applied Bioinformatics, University of Cologne
- Studies in Biology, University of Florence (Italy)
- Master (Laurea) in Biology, University of Florence
Positions
- Junior Professor, University of Münster
- Research Associate, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne
External Functions
- Member of the Faculty of 1000, Biology
- Member of the Society for Evolutionary Biology and Evolution
Projects
- Münster Graduate School of Evolution - Unterstützung des Evolution Think Tank – MGSE ()
Individual Granted Project: Santander Consumer Bank AG - Molecular evolution in natural ecosystems: linking comparative genomics and biological stoichiometry ()
Individual Granted Project: VolkswagenStiftung - Evolutionsbiologie | Project Number: 85 373-1
Articles
- Elser, JJ, Acquisti, C, and Kumar, S. . “Stoichiogenomics: the evolutionary ecology of macromolecular elemental composition.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26 (1): 38–44. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.10.006.
- He, F, Chen, WH, Collins, S, Acquisti, C, Goebel, U, Ramos-Onsins, S, Lercher, MJ, and de, Meaux J. . “Assessing the Influence of Adjacent Gene Orientation on the Evolution of Gene Upstream Regions in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Genetics 185 (2): 695–701. doi: 10.1534/genetics.110.114629.
- Acquisti, C, Kumar, S, and Elser, JJ. . “Signatures of nitrogen limitation in the elemental composition of the proteins involved in the metabolic apparatus.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1667): 2605–2610. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1960.
- Acquisti, C, Elser, JJ, and Kumar, S. . “Ecological nitrogen limitation shapes the DNA composition of plant genomes.” Molecular Biology and Evolution 26 (5): 953–6. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp038.
- Acquisti, C, Poste, G, Curtiss, D, and Kumar, S. . “Nullomers: Really a Matter of Natural Selection?” PloS one 2 (10). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001022.
- Collins, S, de, Meaux J, and Acquisti, C. . “Adaptive walks toward a moving optimum.” Genetics 176 (2): 1089–1099. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.072926.
- Acquisti, C, Kleffe, J, and Collins, S. . “Oxygen content of transmembrane proteins over macroevolutionary time scales.” Nature 445 (7123): 47–52. doi: 10.1038/nature05450.
- Acquisti, C, Allegrini, P, Bogani, P, Buiatti, M, Catanese, E, Fronzoni, L, Grigolini, P, Mersi, G, and Palatella, L. . “In the search for the low-complexity sequences in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes: how to derive a coherent picture from global and local entropy measures.” Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 20 (1): 127–137. doi: 10.1016/S0960-0779(03)00435-1.
- Buiatti, M., Acquisti, C., Mersi, G., Bogani, P., and Fronzoni, L. . “The living state of matter: between noise and homeorrhetic constraints.” in Non-extensive entropy interdisciplinary applications., edited by M. Gell-Mann and C. Tsallis. Oxford.
- Acquisti, C., Mersi, G., and Buiatti, M. . “A computational model of a developing tumor cord.” in Mathematical Modeling & Computing in Biology and Medicine., edited by V. Capasso. Bologna.
- Buiatti, M., Acquisti, C., Mersi, G., Bogani, P., and Buiatti, M.jr. . “The biological meaning of DNA correlations.” in Fractals in Biology and Medicine., edited by Losa G.A., Merlini D., Nonnenmacher T.F., Weibel and E.R.. Basel.
Supervised Doctoral Studies
- Henze, Stefanie: The role of nutrient limitation in shaping genome composition in prokaryotes: an experimental evolution approach
- Henze, Stefanie (): The impact of nitrogen deprivation on genome evolution in Escherichia coli
- Further Supervisor
- Dobrindt, Ulrich
- Preuss, Christoph (): On the evolution of complex genetic diseases
- Further Supervisors
- Stoll, Monika
- Bornberg-Bauer, Erich