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: Volkswagen Foundation - Evolutionary Biology | Project Number: 85 373-1
- Münster Graduate School of Evolution - Unterstützung des Evolution Think Tank – MGSE ()
Publications
- 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 Preuss, Christoph On the evolution of complex genetic diseases
Juniorprofessor Dr. Claudia Acquisti
