Population Genomics
Welcome!
We are interested in the effect of environmental change on populations and ecosystems, and use the ecological aquatic keystone organism Daphnia, the water flea, as our model system. We study rapid adaptative processes induced by changing biotic or abiotic factors, which often have an anthropogenic origin. We analyze the genome as well as the phenotype of organisms and combine population genomics, experimental evolution, molecular tools, high-throughput phenotyping with machine learning and evolutionary simulations.
With our research, we want to answer questions like:
-
Why are Daphnia evolving so rapidly?
-
How do zooplankton communities rapidly adapt to salt stress?
-
What are the molecular mechanisms underlying rapid adaptation to toxic cyanobacteria?
-
How can we study adaptive trait evolution with high-throughput phenotyping and machine learning?
We supervise bachelor and master theses in the following programs: BSc Biology, BSc Molecular Life Sciences, MSc Biology and BSc/MSc Biology for teachers. We are very happy if you are interested in our research, please contact(kathrin.otte"AT"uni-hamburg.de) us!
