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Professional Appointments

  • Professor, Faculty of Biology, 2001 - present
    University of Munich, Munich, Germany
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), 1999-2001
    Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Biology), 1998-1999
    University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Education

Extramural Funding

  • DFG Grant “Rapid evolution of gene regulation”, 2015-2018
    (Project in Priority Program “Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation")
  • DFG Grant "X chromosome inactivation in the Drosophila male germline" (renewal), 2013-2016
  • DFG Grant "Gene expression variation in natural populations of Drosophila", 2011-2014.
    (Renewal of the Research Unit Natural Selection in Structured Populations)
  • DFG Grant "X chromosome inactivation in the Drosophila male germline, 2011-2014
  • BaCaTeC grant "Genome-wide analysis of sex-specific alternative splicing", 2010.
    (Collaboration with Prof. Lauren McIntyre, University of Florida)
  • DFG International Research Training Program
    "RECESS - Regulation and Evolution of Cellular Systems", 2009-2013.
    (Collaboration between LMU, TUM, and Moscow State University)
  • DFG Grant "Gene expression variation in natural populations of Drosophila", 2008-2011.
    (Project in the Research Unit Natural Selection in Structured Populations)
  • DFG Grant "Resurrecting Ancestral Kinesins", 2007-2010.
    (Collaboration with M. Schliwa, G. Woehlke, and M. Kollmar)
  • DFG Grant "Evolution of Drosophila genes with sex-biased expression", 2007-2010.
  • DFG Grant "Evolutionary and functional genomics of Drosophila gene expression", 2004-2007.
  • DFG Grant "Molecular evolution of reproductive genes in Drosophila", 2004-2007.

Teaching

  • Molecular and Experimental Evolution
  • Evolutionary Genetics
  • Basic Evolutionary Genomics
  • Advanced Evolutionary Genomics
  • Molecular Biology and Biochemistry for Bioinformaticians
  • Transcriptomic Analysis in Evolution
  • Biology for non-majors

Editorial Boards

Molecular Biology and Evolution - associate editor

BMC Genomics - associate editor

Journal Referee

  • American Naturalist
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
  • Biochemical Genetics
  • Biochemical Journal
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biology Letters
  • BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • BMC Genomics
  • Current Biology
  • Development
  • Evolutiontop
  • G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
  • Genetics
  • Genetics Research
  • Genome Biology
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Genome Research
  • Heredity
  • Human Molecular Genetics
  • Insect Molecular Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology
  • Journal of Molecular Evolution
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Naturwissenschaften
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • PLoS Biology
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
  • Procedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences
  • Science
  • Trends in Genetics

Professional Society Memberships

  • Genetics Society of America
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution