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Education

• Ph.D. and M.S. in Population Biology, University of California at Davis, 2002
  Title: The Population Genetics and Functional Analysis of the Pto Disease Resistance Gene in Lycopersicon spp. and the RPP13 Gene in Arabidopsis thaliana
• B.S. Biology, Duke University, 1995, summa cum laude.
• B.A. German, Duke University, 1995, summa cum laude.

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor (Wiss. Assistentin - C1) LMU-Munich, 2002 until present
• Research Assistant, University of California, Davis, USA, 1999 - 2002
• Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, USA, 1996 - 1999
• Teaching Assistant, Duke University, 1994

Extramural Funding

Awards / Honors

• Therese von Bayern Award for Excellent Women Scientists 2009
• Summer Research Fellowship from U.C. Davis, 2000
• ARCS Foundation Fellowship, 1999
• Jastro Shields Research Grant from U.C. Davis, 1997-2000
• Center for Population Biology Research Grant from U.C. Davis, 1996-2000
• Organization for Tropical Studies Graduate Fellowship, 1996
• Smithsonian Undergraduate Research Training Program, awarded to study plant systematics at the Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, 1995
• Young Botanist Award, Botanical Society of America, 1995
• Duke University Department of Botany Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 1995
• Graduation with Distinction in Biology, Duke University, 1995
• National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates, awarded to study plant-pathogen interactions at Mountain Lake Biological Station, Virginia, 1993
• Congress Bundestag Scholar (exchange student in Germany), 1989-1990

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Department of Biology, University of Munich - LMU

• Introduction to Evolution and Ecology (Lecture and Lab) Summer Semester 2009
• Introduction to Evolution and Ecology (Lecture and Lab) Summer Semesters 2005, 2006
• Molecular methods for Bioinformatics (Lecture and Lab) Winter Semesters 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
• Scientific Writing and Criticism (Lecture and Seminar) Winter Semesters 2005, 2006, 2008
• Phylogenetic Theory and Methods (Seminar) Summer Semester 2006
• Advanced methods in molecular evolution (Lecture and Lab) Summer Semesters 2002, 2003, 2004
• The concept of effective population size (Seminar) Winter Semester 2004
• Evolutionary Biology (Lab) Winter Semester 2003
• Plant parasite coevolution (Seminar) Summer Semester 2002
• Coevolution (Seminar) Winter Semester 2002

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis

• Animal Diversity (Lab) Winter and Fall Semesters 1996
• Evolutionary Biology (Lab) Spring Semesters 1998, 1999

Teaching Assistant, Duke University

Graduate Student Supervision

• Lisha Naduvilezhath, PhD student
• Jasmin Gossmann, PhD student
• Anja Hoerger, PhD student; Diplom (MS) completed February 2007
• Lukasz Grzeskowiak, PhD student, completed December 2009
• Florian Clemente, Diplom (MS) completed September 2007
• Martina Jugl, Diplom (MS) completed June 2006
• Julia Meitz, visiting PhD student 2004, University of Warwick, UK
• Aura Navarro-Quezada, visiting graduate student 2003, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena
• Martin Groth, Diplom (MS) completed July 2003

Editorial Boards

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