Author Archives: Katja Nowick

We are organizing an international programming school for Biologists (or related scientists). The focus will be on teaching how to solve questions related to evolution in a computational way. The school will take place at the University Leipzig from March 17th … Continue reading →

Together with Rui Faria’s group from CIBIO (Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal) we got awarded our grant to study chromosomal speciation. We will investigate the “Genomic distribution of sequence and gene expression differences … Continue reading →

Rosalina, Stefano, and Lia presented their latest research results at the annual Fall seminar in Bioinformatics in Vysoka Lipa (Decin), in the Czech Republic. We also enjoyed the company of all of our colleagues while playing games, hiking, and drinking … Continue reading →

In this paper we describe the genome of a German individual for which we independently sequenced both haplotype sequences of each chromosome. We revealed that most genes and their regulatory regions have different sequences on the two chromosomes. This means … Continue reading →

On August 2nd we had our lab warming party. Together with Dr. Yvonne Böttcher’s junior research group (“Genetics of Adipositas”) we celebrated the start of our wet lab activities. We want to thank everybody of the former Interdisciplinary Center for … Continue reading →

Nadine Rastig now supports our group as a student assistant. Nadine currently studies Biology in the 5th semester. She is helping our group in the lab by participating in various experiments. Welcome, Nadine!

Our paper describing the content and evolution of Krüppel-type zinc finger (KZNF) genes in primates is accepted for publication in PLoS One: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021553. Data from this project are contained in our Primate KZNF catalog (http://znf.igb.uiuc.edu/). The work was performed in … Continue reading →

Rui Faria from CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversidade and Genetic Resources) at the University of Porto, Portugal, visited our lab from May 15th to May 22nd. He gave a talk on “Chromosomal speciation revisited: rearranging theory with pieces of evidence”.

Luz Rosalina Tincopa Marca from Peru joined our lab on May 10th as our second PhD student. Welcome Rosalina!

Lia Abbasi Moheb joined our group on April 1st as a postdoc. Welcome Lia!