Universität Münster
Institut für Evolution und Biodiversität (IEB)
Address
Hüfferstraße 1
48149 Münster
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
48149 Münster
Projects
Research Grants
Current projects
Comparative evolutionary genomics of slave-making ants and their hosts
(Applicants
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
;
Feldmeyer, Barbara
;
Foitzik, Susanne
;
Heinze, Jürgen
)
Establishing Tribolium castaneum as a new model for studying individual variation and evolution of circadian rhythms
(Applicants
Kurtz, Joachim
;
Stanewsky, Ralf
)
Evolutionary constraints on de novo emergence of new protein coding genes
(Applicant
Ravi, Bharat
)
Evolution of Complex Social Behaviours: the Underlying Mechanisms
(Applicant
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
)
Transposable elements as genetic innovators in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior
(Applicant
Schrader, Lukas
)
Completed projects
Carnivory in Lamiales: understanding character evolution, substitution rate plasticity, and genome miniaturization
(Applicant
Müller, Kai
)
Comparative genomics of slave-making ants and their hosts
(Applicants
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
;
Foitzik, Susanne
;
Heinze, Jürgen
)
Dimerizing Eukaryotic Transcription Factor Family Evolution and Biological Complexity
(Applicant
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
)
Evolutionary Analysis of Domain ArrangeMents (EVADAM); Evolutionäre Analyse von Domänenarrangements
(Applicant
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
)
Evolutionary Ecology of Mnemiopsis leidyi invasion into North and Baltic Sea
(Applicants
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
;
Reusch, Ph.D., Thorsten
)
Genetic, chemical and behavioral investigation of sexual signaling evolution in parasitoid wasps
(Applicant
Büllesbach, Jan
)
Genomic innovations underlying the evolution of termite sociality
(Applicants
Harrison, Mark C.
;
McMahon, Dino
)
Kolonie- und Populationsstruktur der asiatischen Treiberameise Dorylus laevigatus
(Applicant
Gadau, Jürgen
)
Longevity and phenotypic plasticity in ants: a functional genomic approach based on genome sequencing and oligonucleotide microarrays
(Applicant
Heinze, Jürgen
)
Molecular systematic investigations of co-evolutionary processes in the South-East-Asian ant-plant mutualistic system of Crematogaster and Macaranga.
(Applicant
Weising, Kurt
)
The life cycles of parasitic worms, from macroevolutionary patterns to the genetics of adaptation
(Applicant
Benesh, Daniel
)
Ursachen und Folgen genetischer Variabilität für Hymenopteren-Kolonien
(Applicant
Gadau, Jürgen
)
Priority Programmes
Current projects
Emergence, loss and regulation of de novo genes
(Applicants
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
;
Parsch, John
)
Evolutionary Genomic of Sociality in Beetles
(Applicants
Biedermann, Peter
;
Harrison, Mark C.
;
Nehring, Ph.D., Volker
;
Steiger, Sandra
)
Evolution of biophysical carbon concentrating mechanisms from green algae to hornworts
(Applicants
Szovenyi, Peter
;
Wicke, Susann
)
Evolution of epigenetic regulation in beetles (Coleoptera)
(Applicants
Kurtz, Joachim
;
Prohaska, Sonja J.
)
Gene and genome duplication and phenotypic novelties – Insights from spiders and insects
(Applicants
Pechmann, Matthias
;
Posnien, Nico
;
Prpic-Schäper, Nikola-Michael
;
Turetzek, Natascha
)
Genomic and gene regulatory basis of rapid evolutionary diversification of a multifunctional trait
(Applicants
Büllesbach, Jan
;
Feldmeyer, Barbara
;
Menzel, Florian
;
Nehring, Ph.D., Volker
;
Niehuis, Oliver
;
Schmitt, Thomas
)
Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)
(Applicant
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
)
Global patterns of genomic innovations underlying insect evolution
(Applicants
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
;
Feldmeyer, Barbara
)
Recurrent genomic dynamics linked to parallel evolution of secondary phytophagy in Hymenoptera
(Applicants
Lammers, Mark
;
Sann, Manuela
)
SPP 2349: Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)
(Spokesperson
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
)
The Diptera’s solution to the end-replication problem – selfish genetic elements as an insect innovation?
(Applicants
Czuppon, Peter
;
Wilfert, Lena
)
The evolution of genome compartmentalization in the ant genus Cardiocondyla
(Applicants
Makalowski, Ph.D., Wojciech
;
Schrader, Lukas
)
Completed projects
Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses
(Applicant
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
)
Coevolution between Tribolium Castaneum and Bacillus Thuringiensis: On the Evolutionary Significance of Genetic Specificity and Specific Immunity. CLUSTER: "Experimental Evolution and Natural Variation of Bacillus-Invertebrate Interactions"
(Applicant
Kurtz, Joachim
)
Experimental host-parasite coevolution in a changing environment
(Applicants
Berendonk, Thomas U.
;
Rauch, Gisep
)
Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of rapid host adaptation in the aphid parasitoid Aphidius ervi
(Applicants
Gadau, Jürgen
;
Schrader, Lukas
)
Genomics Analysis Platform for the Bacillus-Invertebrate Cluster CLUSTER: "Experimental Evolution and Natural Variation of Bacillus-Invertebrate Interactions"
(Applicants
Rosenstiel, Ph.D., Philip Caspar
;
Schulenburg, Hinrich
)
Global warming and thermal stress tolerance: assessing the physiological and genetic basis through direct transcriptome sequencing
(Applicant
Reusch, Ph.D., Thorsten
)
Host Immune Strategies: Remembering, Resisting, Tolerating, and Being Specific
(Applicant
Armitage, Sophie
)
Host-Parasite Co-Evolution on Infection Networks: Effects of Parasite Sociobiology and Social Immunity
(Applicant
Telschow, Arndt
)
Host-Parasite Coevolution: Programme coordination an meta-analysis of Host-Parasite Coevolution
(Applicant
Kurtz, Joachim
)
Programme Coordination for the Priority Programme SPP 1399 on Host-Parasite Coevolution
(Applicant
Kurtz, Joachim
)
Rapid adaptive change through high recombination rates in eusocial insects
(Applicants
Oettler, Jan
;
Schrader, Lukas
)
SPP 1399: Host-Parasite Coevolution - Rapid Reciprocal Adaptation and its Genetic Basis
(Spokesperson
Kurtz, Joachim
)
The role of phenotypic plasticity for rapid evolutionary adaptation: theoretical and experimental approaches using Tribolium castaneum and Bacillus thuringiensis.
(Applicant
Kurtz, Joachim
)
Transcriptomic Analysis of Resistance and Virulence in Stickleback Host-Parasite Systems CLUSTER: "Evolutionary Genetics of Three-Spined Stickleback - Parasite Interactions"
(Applicants
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
;
Reusch, Ph.D., Thorsten
;
Stoll, Monika
)
Research Units
Completed projects
Differential regulation of genes, isoforms and networks during ageing in social insects
(Applicant
Bornberg-Bauer, Erich
)
FOR 2281: Sociality and the reversal of the fecundity-longevity trade-off
(Spokesperson
Korb, Judith
)
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups
Completed projects
Genetic reconfigurations en route to a holoparasitic lifestyle in plants
(Applicant
Wicke, Susann
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Changes in Small Mammal Trophic Interactions (SMaTI) in response to land-use intensity and biodiversity
(Applicant
Tiede, Julia
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed projects
Evolution und genetische Grundlagen des Paarungsverhaltens in der Gattung Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
(Project Head
Gadau, Jürgen
)
Populationsgenetische Grundlagen der Territorialität und intraspezifischen Sklaverei bei Ameisen
(Project Heads
Gadau, Jürgen
;
Hölldobler, Bert
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
Durchflusszytometer
Gaschromatograph-Massenspektrometer (GC-MS/MS)
Research Fellowships
Completed projects
Approaching “Old Friends” with a new model: How parasite diversity shaped the adaptation of Astyanax mexicanus to the cave
(Applicant
Peuß, Robert
)
Phenotypic evolution and speciation in socially parasitic ants
(Applicant
Schrader, Lukas
)
CRC/Transregios
Current projects
Central tasks of the collaborative research centre
(Project Head
Kurtz, Joachim
)
Challenged (by) parasites - Plastid-mediated acclimation kinetics of plant-plant-pathosystems
(Project Head
Wicke, Susann
)
Genetic and phenotypic characterization of immunological niche conformance in cavefish
(Project Head
Peuß, Robert
)
Niche construction consequences of parasite virulence in eco-evolutionary dynamics
(Project Heads
Anaya-Rojas, Jaime M.
;
Kurtz, Joachim
)
Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of social niche construction during colony founding in the ant P. californicus
(Project Head
Gadau, Jürgen
)
The role of niche construction and evolutionary capacitance for evolvability in the red flour beetle
(Project Head
Kurtz, Joachim
)
TRR 212: A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction (NC3)
(Spokespersons
Krüger, Oliver
;
Kurtz, Joachim
)
WBP Return Grant
Current projects
Rückkehrstipendium
(Applicant
Härer, Andreas
)
Cataloguing and Digitisation
Completed projects
Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: Development of a subject indexing system for collections of the north hemispherical flowering plant genus Campanula
(Applicants
Kilian, Norbert
;
Müller, Kai
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 2220: Evolutionary Processes in Adaptation and Disease (RTG EvoPAD)
(Spokesperson
Kurtz, Joachim
)
