Author Archives: Katja Nowick

We got our grant proposal on “Long Non-Coding RNAs in Primate Brain Evolution” awarded. It is funded within the framework of the SPP 1738 “Emerging Roles of Non-coding RNAs in Nervous System Development, Plasticity and Disease”.

Sabina finished her thesis on the “Role of random monoallelically expressed genes in the development of Alzheimer’s disease”. Congratulations to an excellent thesis work!

Our school on Programming for Evolutionary Biology will take place again in Spring 2014! It’s the perfect opportunity to learn programming and the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data in two and a half weeks. Check out our website. Applications … Continue reading →

Stefano presented his work at the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Chicago in July 2013. The title of his talk was “Evolution of a Co-expression Network Involved in Primate Brain Functions and Cognitive Abilities”.

Our Programming for Evolutionary Biology course sparked interest in the German news service. The radio station MDR-Info did an interview with me, which was broadcasted on April 3rd 2013. In the interview I describe the content and philosophy of the … Continue reading →

Chris Balakrishnan and me are organizing a symposium on  “Evolution of behavior: Comparative genomics and transcriptomics” for the SMBE meeting this year. We invited three excellent speakers: David Clayton, Todd Preuss, and Suzy Renn The Meeting will take place in Chicago … Continue reading →

Registration now open! After the great success of our course last year, there will be a 2013 edition: http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/ We have again excellent teachers and speakers for you to learn how to program and analyze large datasets to answer evolutionary … Continue reading →

Stefano presented his work on the evolution of a transcription factor network in primate brains at the Trends in Biology and Evolution conference. This conference is an annual, international meeting organized by CIBIO in Portugal.

To be published in Trends in Genetics: Katja Nowick, Miguel Carneiro and Rui Faria (2012) A prominent role of  KRAB-ZNF  transcription factors  in  mammalian speciation? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168952512001916 In this paper we suggest that members of the family of KRAB-ZNF transcription factors … Continue reading →

Our research group is among the first groups that got awarded a research project within the newly founded German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). In this project we are going to investigate the role chromosomal rearrangements and accompanying sequence … Continue reading →