Research topics
Our research covers a number of fields: phylogenetics, Holocene and Pleistocene animal population dynamics, the genetic basis of adaptions to changing environments, museomics, and integrative taxonomy. Since we work mostly with non-model organisms, we also develop and improve approaches for DNA sequence analyses, especially from degraded DNA. More details are available on these pages:
Collaborations
We collaborate with a variety of research groups all around the world, including:
Robert Asher, University of Cambridge, UK
Axel Barlow & Johanna Paijmans, Bangor University, UK
Faysal Bibi, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany
Colossal Biosciences, USA
Josef Bryja, Czech Academy of Science, Brno, Czech Republic
Love Dalen, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Sweden
Frank Glaw, Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany
Jennifer Leonard, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain
Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Yoshan Moodley, University of Venda, South Africa
Christian Roos, German Primate Centre, Göttingen, Germany
Mark-Oliver Rödel, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany
Wilfried Rosendahl, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany
Mark Scherz, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Guilian Sheng, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Sebastian Steinfartz, University of Leipzig, Germany
Nicolas Straube, Department of Natural History, University of Bergen, Norway
Miguel Vences, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
Mick Westbury, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Funding
Selected projects:
- ERC grant 310763: GeneFlow
- DFG grant HO 349213-1: The Effects of Pleistocene Climatic Cycles on African Mammal Evolution: The Case of Hippotragin Antelopes
- Klaus Tschira foundation project 00.298.2016: The upper Rhine valley as a window to the Ice Age: climate and environment in south-west Germany during the Middle and Late Pleistocene
- EFRE grant 85000932: Improving the capabilities for genome sequencing and the identification of economically interesting genes and genotypes
A number of additional agencies also fund our research:
