Research project:
RNA interference (RNAi) as a tool for testing the role of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) as an evolutionary capacitor in the model insect Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz, Prof. Dr. Eva Liebau
Research project:
Immunogenic mating: the link between mating and immunity in Drosophila melanogaster
Supervisors:
Dr. Claudia Fricke, Dr. Sophie Armitage, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schlatt
Research project:
Study of the regulation and function of pathogenicity island-encoded integrases in
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz
Research project:
Social environments and parasite infection influence stickleback shoaling behaviours
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, Dr. Jörn Scharsack
Research project:
The power of ancient retroposed sequences to resolve problematic mammalian evolutionary questions
Supervisors:
PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Francesco Catania
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Experimental Pathology, University of Münster
Research project:
Evolution of antioxidant system genes in eukaryotes
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz, Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Santovito
Current position:
Research Consultant, Kansas City, United States
Research project:
Immune priming in Tribolium castaneum: Evolutionary significance and underlying mechanisms
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schulenburg, Prof. Dr. Alexander Mellmann
Current position:
Scientist, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States
Research project:
Parasite-host interaction in a cestode-fish system: Schistocephalus solidus and its obligatory second intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Monika Stoll, Dr. Jörn Scharsack
Current position:
Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft (LWF), Freising, Germany
Research project:
Insect responses to environmental stressors – canalization, plasticity and evolution
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherber, Dr. Claudia Fricke, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centro de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional de Colombia
Research project:
The impact of the pAA plasmid on virulence in the EHEC O104:H4 outbreak strain
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Mellmann, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. M. Alexander Schmidt
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Research project:
The impact of nitrogen deprivation on genome evolution in Escherichia coli
Supervisors:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Acquisti, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Research project:
Of anxious males and angry females: How genes related to serotonergic neurotransmission, social experience, and the female reproductive cycle affect anxiety-like and social behaviour in mice
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster
Research project:
Sporophyte development in Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii, an Early Devonian vascular land plant from the Rhynie chert, Aberdeenshire, UK
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Hans Kerp, Prof. Dr. Ralph Thomas Becker, Prof. Dr. Kai Müller
Research project:
Genome comparison of pathogenic Escherichia coli
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Dag Harmsen
Current position:
Product and Customer Manager at Qubeto GmbH, Münster
Research project:
Cryptic mutations in protein evolution
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Leidel, Prof. Dr. Joachim Jose
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Medicine - Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Research project:
Host immune strategies: remembering, resisting and tolerating
Supervisors:
Dr. Sophie Armitage, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt
Current position:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vale lab, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Research project:
Bioinformatic tools and strategies for the study of translation regulation during neuronal cell differentiation using ribosome profiling
Supervisors:
Dr. Sebastian Leidel, Dr. Juanma Vaquerizas, Prof. Dr. Claudia Acquisti
Research project:
Evolution of gene architecture in Eukaryotes
Supervisors:
Dr. Francesco Catania, PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz, Prof. Dr. Juliette de Meaux
Current position:
Postdoctoral researcher, Korn Lab, Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich
Research project:
The effects of serotonin transporter genotype and social experience during adolescence on anxiety-like behavior and aggressiveness in male mice
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, Prof. Dr. Monika Stoll, Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Osnabrück
Research project:
In the face of change - How behavioural and endocrine phenotypes are shaped and reshaped by social experiences beyond adolescence
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, Prof. Dr. Oliver Krüger, Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Behavioural Biology, WWU Münster
Research project:
Computational tools and their application in Retrogenomics
Supervisors:
PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz, Prof. Dr. Stephan Ludwig, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Current position:
Postdoctoral researcher, Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen
Research project:
Genotypic characterization and genomic evolution of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus from sub-Saharan Africa
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Mellmann, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Acquisti
Current position:
Biologisch-Medizinisches Forschungszentrum (BMFZ), University of Düsseldorf
Research Project:
The extinction of life: an inquiry into the metaphysics of disease
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Krohs, Prof. Dr. Niko Strobach
Research project:
On the evolution of modularity in gene regulatory networks affecting complex diseases
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Monika Stoll, Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Current position:
Professor at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Hochschule Landshut
Research project:
Age-dependent changes in male reproductive traits determining pre-and post-copulatory success in Drosophila melanogaster
Supervisors:
Dr. Claudia Fricke, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser
Current position:
Wissenschaftliche Volontärin, LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Münster
Research project:
The adaptive significance of shaping behavioral and endocrine phenotypes to the early social environment
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, Prof. Dr. Caroline Müller
Current position:
International Affairs and Integrative Activities Office, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Research project:
The role of nucleic acid methylating enzymes in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, PD Dr. Jürgen Schmitz
Current position:
Postdoctoral researcher, Tate lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Research project:
Sex-specific contributions of sexual selection and sexual conflict to male-female coevolution in Drosophila melanogaster
Supervisors:
Dr. Claudia Fricke, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau
Current position:
Coordinator of the MGSE and RTG 2220 EvoPAD
Research project:
Shaping of behavioural phenotypes by social experiences during adolescence: Neuroendocrine mechanisms and adaptive significance
Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser, Prof. Dr. Fritz Trillmich
Current position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster