Master/Bachelor projects
Please find more about our open Master and Bachelor projects:
Master/IRT3 PROJECT "Firefly karyotype and genome size evolution."
Supervisor and Contact: Dr. Ana Catalán (Catalan@bio.lmu.de)
Master/IRT3 PROJECT: "Imaging and morphometrics of sexually dimorphic
fireflies."
Supervisor and Contact: Dr. Ana Catalán (Catalan@bio.lmu.de)
Master/IRT3 PROJECT "Firefly genomics and transcriptomics."
Supervisor and Contact: Dr. Ana Catalán (Catalan@bio.lmu.de)
Master/IRT3 PROJECT "ATAC-seq and gene expression in crows."
Supervisor and Contact: Dr. Ana Catalán (Catalan@bio.lmu.de)
Master/IRT3 PROJECT "How inversions can aid adaptation. Experimental evolution of artificial inversions in fission yeast".
Supervisor and Contact: Cristina Berenguer Millanes (berenguer@bio.lmu.de) or Bart Nieuwenhuis (nieuwenhuis@bio.lmu.de).
Master’s thesis (+IRT3) projects available on Evolutionary Genomics
Supervisor: Dr. Ricardo J Pereira (pereira@bio.lmu.de)
Project 1: "What are the genetic consequences of near extinction?"
Project 2: "New genomic approaches to study population genomics in giant genomes."
Project 3: "Repeatable patterns of introgression during the speciation continuum."
Master's thesis (+IRT3) projects available in the Speciation Behaviour Group
Project 1. "Using CRISPR to test the role of Regucalcin in Heliconius mate choice."
Supervisor: Prof. Richard Merrill (merrill@bio.lmu.de) and Matteo Rossi
Project 2. "Larval adaptations contributing to reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies." Supervisor: Prof. Richard Merrill (merrill@bio.lmu.de) and Dr. Lucie Queste
Project 3. "Evolutionary genetics of visual adaptation in Heliconius butterflies." Supervisor: Prof. Richard Merrill (merrill@bio.lmu.de) and Dr. Shane Wright
Master's thesis (+IRT3) projects available on mating-system evolution
Supervisor: Dr. Bart Nieuwenhuis (nieuwenhuis@bio.lmu.de)
"23 000 sexes? Evolutionary genomics of sexual types in fungi." Project description
"The many costs of self-(in)compatibility." Project description
Master’s thesis (+IRT3) projects available in the Evolutionary and Pathogen Genomics Groups
Supervisor: Dr. Susanne Franssen (franssen@bio.lmu.de)
Project 1: "Phylogenetics and comparative genomics of the Leishmania genus."
Project 2: "Evaluation of single cell sequencing technologies for aneuploidy estimation in Leishmania."
Project 3: "Role of mosaic aneuploidy for short term adaptation in Leishmania."