Professor Dr. Nikola-Michael Prpic-Schäper

Address Universität Gießen
Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie und Entwicklungsbiologie
Abteilung für Zoologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Molekulare Entwicklungsbiologie
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38
35392 Gießen

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Identification of key players of the ecdysteroid pathway and detection of ecdysteroid-producing tissues in tardigrades, onychophorans and chelicerates: Insights into the evolution of molting in Panarthropoda (Research Grants)
  - Gene and genome duplication and phenotypic novelties – Insights from spiders and insects (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Vergleichende Studien zur Rolle von Egfr, Wingless und Dpp bei der proximal-distalen Achsenbildung in den Gliedmaßen von Arthropoden (Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups)
  - Untersuchung der Beinentwicklung von Pholcus phalangioides als Beispiel für Laufbeindiversität bei Spinnen (Research Grants)
  - Developmental genetic studies of the embryonic development and metamorphosis of the pedipalp using the spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum (C. L. Koch, 1841) (Research Grants)
  - Arthropod appendages: a prime example for the evolution of diversity, adaptation and innovation (Heisenberg Fellowships)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Molecular analysis of spinneret diversification in spiders (Research Grants)