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We found that chinchillas and sandgrouse have independently evolved single amino-acid insertions in the same region of their sodium-potassium pump...

The Na,K-ATPase is a vital ion transporter and ubiquitously expressed in all animal cells. The enzyme is composed of two functionally diverse subunits...

Marlena Herbertz was awarded the doctorate after her successfully presented disputation. We congratulate and wish her all the best for her future!

Shab's protein engineering experiments in our lab helped to dissect the evolutionary path that enabled toad-feeding frogs to become resistant to their...

The articles  "Next-generation sequencing of DNA from resting eggs: signatures of eutrophication in a lake’s sediment" , "Four new mitogenomes for the...

The paper  "Insights into the genetic basis of predator-induced response in Daphnia galeata" is online on  Ecology & Evolution. Congratulate to...

A warm welcome to our new doctoral student Nikolaos Deligiorgis! He is a new researcher on the exciting topic of the adaptation of Longitarsus flea...

Paulina Kowalski studies in her doctoral thesis how the leaf beetle Chrysochus auratus manages to absorb toxic cardiac glycosides from its host plants...

From our longtime cooperation with Prof. Johanna Mappes at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, two further publications are online:  Burdfield-Steel...

Sha Lu just arrived to start her PhD with a fellowship from the Chinese Scholarship Council. She will focus on the role of ABCB transporters in...

Alena Krüger has successfully completed her PhD in AG Burmester and will be a successor of Kim Rohlfing as a research assistant for us next year. The...

Dr. Shabnam Mohammadi just arrived for the forth time in our lab, founed for two years by her own NIH fellowship. You can find her most of the time in...

Als neue Doktorandin verstärkt Cäcilia Plate das Team der Forscher*innen an ABCB-Transportern und wird bei Chrysochus-Arten vergleichen,  inwiefern...

Die Arbeitsgruppe von Noah Whitemann an der UCA Berkley hat es geschafft Crispr/Cas modifizierte Fliegen mit den von uns untersuchten Substitutionen...

Fee Meinzer und Jennifer Lohr beschreiben für unsere 'Laborratte', die Milchkrautwanze Oncopeltus fasciatus, die erfolgreiche Suche nach stabilen...

Die farbenprächtigen Pyrgomorphiden (Heuschrecken) können wie einige andere Insekten Herzglykoside tolerieren und im Körper speichern. Die molekularen...

The Biology Department has a new server for the analysis of large datasets, such as proteomic data and high throughput sequencing. This server is...

Mit einer weiteren Doktorandenstelle und neuem Geld kann die Suche nach den Anpassungen von Insekten an Cardenolide neue Fahrt aufnehmen!

A warm welcome to our new doctoral studen Alina Sanke! She is a new researcher in the field of hybridization and she analyses reproductive anomalies...