Im Kontext unserer laufenden Projekte bieten wir Themen für Master- und Bachelor-Arbeiten an, die sich mit dem Optimieren von Labormethoden für alte DNA und/oder mit der bioinformatischen Analyse von (paleo)genomischen Daten beschäftigen. Sprechen Sie uns an!
Abgeschlossene Arbeiten
Master
Luis Victoria Nogales (2022): Assessing the molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the four-toed sengi (Petrodromus) using historical DNA
Flora Uesseler (2021): Investigating gene flow in three Galápagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) populations from the island of San Cristóbal
Jose Ramirez Garcia (2021): Analysing the phylogenetic information in genome-wide transposon presence/absence patterns in Afrotherian mammals
Wiebke Ponick (Sept 2020): Computational identification and analysis of NUMTs in published primate genomes
Sebastian Wieser (Mar 2018): Phylogeny and population characteristics of the straight-tusked elephant at Neumark Nord
Bachelor
Marleen Streicher (ongoing): Evaluating ancestral mitogenome reconstructions across different software packages
Robert Lüdecke (ongoing): Mitogenome reconstruction and phylogeny of the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sophia Schrepel (ongoing): Sequence-based species delimitation in sengis (Macroscelidea)
Stefan Bauermeister (Sept 2020): Variation der Anzahl thorakolumbaler Wirbel innerhalb der Afrotheria – Bioinformatische Analyse von Kandidatengenen
York Hesse (Nov 2020): Gene family evolution in afrotherian mammals
Philipp Jakupovic (Jan 2020): Annotation & phylogenetic analysis of selected digestive enzymes of the newly assembled genome of the carnivorous plant R. gorgonias
Marie Gurke (Feb 2019): Bioinformatic analysis of gene family evolution in stick insects
Achim Klittich (Oct 2018): Tracing loss-of-function intolerant genes in the human genome across the tree of life
Pia Renk (Sept 2018): Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of historical and modern samples from the rinkhals, a Southern African snake
Daria Wilhelm (Sept 2018)- Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial genomes from ancient cave and brown bears
Lisa Trautmann (Aug 2017): Isolation and sequencing of DNA from museum specimens treated with polyethylene glycol
Ferdinand Laubisch (Juli 2017): Comparative analysis of lysozyme c sequences in vertebrate genomes
Anna Kwiatkowski (Juli 2017)
Till Birkner (Jan 2017): Assemblierung und Vergleich von Genomen verschiedener Cyanobakterienstämme der Gattung Aphanizomenon
Ariana Knechel (Sept 2016)
Susanne Butschkau (Sept 2016): Next-Generation Sequencing of historical Mexican wolves
Nikolas Basler (Aug 2016): Reducing the contaminant fraction of DNA obtained from an ancient bone sample
Eva-Maria Priesterjahn (Aug 2016): Molecular approaches for investigating biodiversity processes in Epimeria amphipods
Julia Plinke (Aug 2016): Attempt to use Bst 3.0 polymerase to increase the fragment length of ancient DNA templates by repairing single stranded nicks
Natalia Chadala (März 2015): Dertermining the sex of bears based on unassembled Illumina shotgun sequence data