Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Director
Chair "Systematic Zoology"

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology

Tel: +49 228 9122-200

Fax: +49 228 9122-202

Mail: b.misof [at] leibniz-lib.de

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Profile

Research interests

Molecular systematics, analysis of speciation processes, evolution of rRNA molecules, rare genomic changes as phylogenetic markers, the evolution of basal hexapods and pterygote insects, phylogenomics, bioinformatics, evolutionary genomics.

I am interested in all aspects of molecular biodiversity research from molecular taxonomy to evolutionary genomics. It is particularly important for me to integrate theoretical, bioinformatic and empirical approaches as this combination allows to explore the potential of molecular biodiversity research

My research is focused on aspects of bioinformatics, phylogenomics, speciation research and theory of phylogenetics. See my project descriptions and publications for details.

Projects

2021

Hybrid swarm evolution in minnows

In biodiversity research, little is known so far about how hybridizations of a native and a non-native species can lead to the evolution of an invasive hybrid. A group of researchers led by Dr Madlen Stange is now studying this aspect in a project at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig – Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity (ZFMK). The group is investigating the spread of Phoxinus, an ecologically important schooling fish, in the River Sieg, a 155 km tributary of the River Rhine.

Unit:

Junior Research Group (Minnow), Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology (ztm), Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Metabarcoding, Ichthyology, Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Comparative Vertebrate Genomics

Project lead:

Dr. Madlen Stange

Funding:

Leibniz Association

Genomic technology for the Caucasus

It is planned to undertake 1) a comprehensive upgrade of researchinfrastructure in the molecular ecology laboratory at ISU, and 2) ajoint research investigation of biodiversity and refugial areas in the Caucasus region. Improvements to research infrastructure will providemodern biotechnology to researchers in the Caucasus region, including next generation sequencing (NGS) and real time PCR.

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Administration

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

2020

CaBOL - Caucasus Barcode of Life

A Georgian-Armenian-German initiative to build research infrastructures and to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Department Arthropoda, Biodiversity Informatics, Diptera, Administration

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

GBOL III: Dark Taxa

The BMBF-funded GBOL, the German Barcode of Life initiative, has been run successfully over the last eight years. It delivered an operative DNA barcode reference library for German animals, fungi and plants. However, a significant proportion of insect taxa has so far been excluded from GBOL and merely all biodiversity research, because no or only very insufficient expertise and information are available that allow to get a grip on them. They are called “Dark Taxa”.

Unit:

Hymenoptera, Diptera, Chair Systematic Zoology, Mammalogy, Biobank, Biodiversity Informatics, Directorate, Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science (zbm), Administration, ZFMK International Graduate School, Metabarcoding, Department Arthropoda, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2019

FOGS - Forensic Genetics for Species Protection

The FOGS project develops DNA-based tools to combat illegal trade in protected animal species.

Unit:

Biobank, Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Experimental and Applied Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, Herpetology, Administration, Computational Genomics, Department Arthropoda

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2018

Establishing a standardized and universally applicable set of nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation of metazoans

Methods for delimiting species based on multi-gene nucleotide information are well established and provide the means to complement the classical COI barcoding approach, whose limitations are well known. Our research project aims at establishing a standardized set of single-copy nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation by exploiting comparative genomic data and applying target DNA enrichment. Candidate markers are so-called Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (USCOs).

Unit:

Coleoptera, Arachnids, Statistical Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics, Staff Council, Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Molecular Laboratory, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Myriapoda, Diptera

Project lead:

Dr. Dirk Ahrens

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2017

GGBC: Assessment, Monitoring and Management of Caucasian Biodiversity

A Georgian-German initiative to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus area

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Department Arthropoda, Coleoptera, Mammalogy, Lepidoptera, Herpetology, Administration, ZFMK International Graduate School, Biodiversity Informatics, Metabarcoding, Myriapoda, Arachnids, Staff Council, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Comparative Insect Genomics

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

AG RICEFISH

The focus of the proposed research group is to study the link between genotype and phenotype of evolutionary adaptive traits, a vital question of evolutionary biology in the postgenomic era. The group will study the morphological and genomic basis of a unique reproduction strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes (Actinopterygii: Adrianichthyidae) called “pelvic brooding”. In pelvic brooding species, females carry the eggs in an abdominal concavity until they hatch, which is assumed to be an adaptation to a predominantly pelagic lifestyle.

Unit:

Evolutionary Genomics, Centre for Taxonomy and Morphology (ztm), Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Ichthyology, Directorate Staff

Project lead:

Dr. Julia Schwarzer

Funding:

Leibniz Association

2014

Countering Systematic Bias in Phylogenetics

PhyQuart, a new algorithm combining Hennigian logic and Maximum Likelihood estimation, represents a completely new strategy for the evaluation of molecular data based on a site pattern classification for quartets of aligned sequences.

Unit:

Algorithmic Development, Chair Systematic Zoology, Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science (zbm), Directorate, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, European Union

Island speciation within the…

Landsnails of the genus Theba show an endemic radiation on the Canary Islands and the adjacent West African Continent.

Unit:

Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research, Mammalogy

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

The phylogeny of Holometabola

The Holometabola are the insects with complete metamorphosis (larva, pupa, adult) and comprise > 60% of the described animal species. The project aims at solving the open questions in the phylogeny of the group, in order to get a better understanding of t

Unit:

Hymenoptera, Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Directorate Staff

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2013

GFBio

Environmental and biological research is becoming central to major societal challenges related to the Earth’s ecosystems and climate dynamics. To handle the scale and complexity of the scientificquestions being addressed, there is a strong need to integrate knowledge because biological data are currently scattered and difficult to share.

Unit:

Biodiversity Informatics, Directorate, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research

Project lead:

Dr. Peter Grobe

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Gene repertoire Characterization

Comparative genomics is in its infancy. Genome sequencing just now generates the data to compare not only model organisms and vertebrates but to actually assess biodiversity. Explaining biodiversity relies on an understanding of underlying mechanisms of genome evolution, which in turn is based on a thorough knowledge of genomic characters and the driving forces shaping them.

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Graduate School (GBR)

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

AliGROOVE – visualization of heterogeneous sequence divergence

AliGROOVE determines and visualizes the content of potentially randomized sequence similarities and alignment ambiguities in multiple sequence alignments.The AliGROOVE algorithm is an adaptation of the recently published ALISCORE masking algorithm (Misof & Misof, 2009, Kück et al., 2010). AliGROOVE summarizes site scores of profiles of sequence similarity normalized over the whole alignment length from each pairwise comparison and translates the obtained scoring distances between sequences into a similarity Matrix

Unit:

Algorithmic Development, Biodiversity Informatics, Chair Systematic Zoology, Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science (zbm), Directorate, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2012

MARE

In phylogenomics character matrices with extensive missing data are frequently used. These missing data have potentially detrimental effects on the accuracy and robustness of tree inference. Therefore, many investigators select taxa and genes with high data coverage.

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Directorate Staff

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Identification of sources of error in molecular phylogenetic analyses

The aim of our study was to test the robustness and efficiency of maximum likelihood with respect to different long branch effects on multiple-taxon trees.

Unit:

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

1KITE: The evolution of the insects

Insects are one of the most species-rich groups of metazoan organisms. They play a pivotal role in most non-marine ecosystems and many insect species are of enormous economical and medical importance. Unraveling the evolution of insects is essential for understanding how life in terrestrial and limnic environments evolved. The 1KITE (1K Insect Transcriptome Evolution) project aims to study the transcriptomes (that is the entirety of expressed genes) of 1,000 insect species encompassing all recognized insect orders. For each species, so-called ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) will be produced…

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Directorate Staff, Biodiversity Informatics, Computational Genomics, High-performance Computing, Statistical Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics, Staff Council, Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science (zbm), Education, Biobank, Hymenoptera, Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

2011

GBOL- German Barcode of Life

"German Barcode of Life" ( GBOL ) is a project sponsored by the BMBF and includes the creation of inventories for the gentic characterization of the animals, fungi and plants of germany, using DNA-Barcodes.

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. J. Wolfgang Wägele

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

FREDIE - Freshwater Diversity…

Freshwater Diversity Identification for Europe: Barcoding all European freshwater fishes, freshwater molluscs and mayflies.

Unit:

Ichthyology, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Biodiversity Informatics, Mammalogy

Project lead:

PD Dr. Fabian Herder

Funding:

Leibniz Association

Automated masking of AFLP markers

AMARE is designed to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio in AFLP data sets (single or multiple primer combinations). It identifies potentially erroneous AFLP genotyping errors as the number of non-reproducible scored markers between replicated AFLP profiles of single individuals. As a measure of overall data quality, it simultaneously estimates general replicate error rates.

Unit:

Algorithmic Development, Biobank, Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology, Directorate, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb), Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research

Project lead:

Dr. Patrick Kück

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2010

The evolution of…

We try to reconstruct a robust backbone tree of holometabolous insects based on extensive transcriptome/genome data. With our transcriptome data we cover all orders within these group of insects and optimize the procedures of tree inference based on these data. Additionally, Rolf Beutel's group is providing extensive 3D morphological data of head, thorax and abdominal structures. Together we are working on the most extensive morphological and molecular data addressing the above mentioned phylogenetic questions. Within this project we have also started to specifically address the "Strepsiptera…

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Directorate Staff, Hymenoptera, Graduate School (GBR)

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2009

The Atelocerata - a vanishing…

Berlese pitfalls

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Directorate Staff

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

ALISCORE - Masking of Multiple Sequence Alignments

Random similarity of sequences or sequence sections can impede phylogenetic analyses or the identification of gene homologies.

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Algorithmic Development, Directorate Staff, Biodiversity Informatics

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig

2007

Diversification in space and…

Unit:

Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publications

Published in

2018

Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O., Gunkel, S., Bläser, M., Mayer, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Kozlov, A., Donath, A., van Noort, S., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Heraty, J., Krogmann, L., (2018): Transcriptome sequence-based phylogeny of chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reveals a history of rapid radiations, convergence, and evolutionary success. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 120, 286–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.005

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Pauli, T., Burt, T., Meusemann, K, Bayless, K,. Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Kozlov, A., Vasilikopoulos, A., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Yeates, D., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., and Mengual, X. (2018): New data, same story: phylogenomics does not support Syrphoidea (Diptera: Syrphidae, Pipunculidae). Systematic Entomology 43(3), 447–459.

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2018_syrphoidea.pdf

Sann, M., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Mayer, C., Kozlov, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Bank, S., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Bleidorn, C., Ohl, M. (2018): Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18(1), 71. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8

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Rakitov, R., Moysa, A.A., Kopylov, A.T., Moshkovskii, S.A., Peters, R.S., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Dietrich, C.H., Johnson, K.P., Podsiadlowski, L., Walden, K.KO. (2018): Brochosomins and other novel proteins from brochosomes of leafhoppers (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 94, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2018.01.001

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Thomas, G.W.C., Dohmen, E., Hughes, D.S.T., Murali, S.C., Poelchau, M., Glastad, K., Anstead, C.A., Ayoub, N.A., Batterham, P., Bellair, M., Binford, G.J., Chao, H., Chen, Y.H., Childers, C., Dinh, H., Doddapaneni, H., Duan, J.J., Dugan, S., Esposito, L.A., Friedrich, M., Garb, J., Gasser, R.B.B., Goodisman, M.A.D., Gundersen-Rindal, D.E., Han, Y., Handler, A.M., Hatakeyama, M., Hering, L., Hunter, W.B., Ioannidis, P., Jayaseelan, J.C., Kalra, D., Khila, A., Korhonen, P.K., Lee, C.E., Lee, S.L., Li, Y., Lindsey, A.R.I., Mayer, G., McGregor, A.P., McKenna, D.D., Misof, B., Munidasa, M., Munoz-Torres, M., Muzny, D.M., Niehuis, O., Osuji-Lacy, N., Palli, S.R., Panfilio, K.A., Pechmann, M., Perry, T., Peters, R.S., Poynton, H.C., Prpic, N.-M., Qu, J., Rotenberg, D., Schal, C., Schoville, S.D., Scully, E.D., Skinner, E., Sloan, D.B., Stouthamer, R., Strand, M.R., Szucsich, N.U., Wijeratne, A., Young, N.D., Zattara, E.E., Benoit, J.B., Zdobnov, E.M., Pfrender, M.E., Hackett, K.J., Werren, J.H., Worley, K.C., Gibbs, R.A., Chipman, A.D., Waterhouse, R.M., Bornberg-Bauer, E., Hahn, M.W., Richards, S. (2018). The Genomic Basis of Arthropod Diversity. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/382945

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Wilbrandt J, Misof B, Panfilio KA, and Niehuis O: How suitable are automatically inferred gene models for uncovering taxon-specific gene structural differences in gene repertoires? Genome Biology: subm.

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Gillung, J.P., Winterton, S.L., Bayless, K.M., Khouri, Z., Borowiec, M.L., Yeates, D., Kimsey, L.S., Misof, B., Shin, S., Zhou, X., Mayer, C., Petersen, M., Wiegmann, B.M., 2018. Anchored phylogenomics unravels the evolution of spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) and reveals discordance between nucleotides and amino acids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 128, 233–245.

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Johnson, K.P., Dietrich, C.H., Friedrich, F., Beutel, R.G., Wipfler, B., Peters, R.S., Allen, J.M., Petersen, M., Donath, A., Walden, K.K.O., Kozlov, A.M., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Meusemann, K., Vasilikopoulos, A., Waterhouse, R.M., Cameron, S.L., Weirauch, C., Swanson, D.R., Percy, D.M., Hardy, N.B., Terry, I., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Robertson, H.M., Yoshizawa, K., (2018): Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201815820.

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2017

Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Dowling, D., Liu, S., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Vasilikopoulos, A., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2017): Orthograph: a versatile tool for mapping coding nucleotide sequences to clusters of orthologous genes. BMC Bioinformatics. 18(1), 111. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1529-8

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Bank, S., Sann, M., Mayer, C., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Kozlov, A., Petersen, M., Krogmann, L., Meier, R., Rosa, P., Schmitt, T., Wurdack, M., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Peters, R.S., Niehuis, O., (2017): Transcriptome and target DNA enrichment sequence data provide new insights into the phylogeny of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Vespidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 116, 213–226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.08.020

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Wilbrandt J, Misof B, and Niehuis O: COGNATE: comparative gene annotation characterizer. BMC Genomics 18(1): 535

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Li, Y., Zhang, R., Liu, S., Donath, A., Peters, R.S., Ware, J., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Pfrender, M.E., Zhou, X. (2017): The molecular evolutionary dynamics of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) genes in Hymenoptera. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1), 269. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1111-z

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Dowling, D., Pauli, T., Donath, A., Meusemann, K., Podsiadlowski, L., Petersen, M., Peters, R.S., Mayer, C., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2017): Phylogenetic Origin and Diversification of RNAi Pathway Genes in Insects. Genome Biology and Evolution 8(12), 3784-3793. doi:10.1093/gbe/evw281

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Greve, C., Haase, M., Hutterer, R., Rödder, D., Ihlow, F., Misof, B. (2017): Snails in the desert: Species diversification of Theba (Gastropoda: Helicidae) along the Atlantic coast of NW Africa. - Ecology and Evolution (2017) 7: 5524 - 5538; DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3138

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greve_et_al-2017-ecology_and_evolution.pdf

Peters, R.S., Krogmann, L., Mayer, C., Donath, A., Gunkel, S., Meusemann, K., Kozlov, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Petersen, M., Lanfear, R., Diez, P.A., Heraty, J., Kjer, K.M., Klopfstein, S., Meier, R., Polidori, C., Schmitt, T., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2017): Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera. Current Biology. 27, 1013–1018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.027

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2016

Kraaijeveld K, Anvar Y, Frank J, Schmitz A, Bast J, Wilbrandt J, Petersen M, Ziesmann T, Niehuis O, Knijff P de, Dunnen JT den, Ellers J: Decay of sexual trait genes in an asexual parasitoid wasp. Genome Biol Evol: evw273

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Pauli, T., Vedder, L., Dowling, D., Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Donath, A., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Heger, P., Wiehe, T., Hering, L., Mayer, G., Misof, B., Niehuis, O. (2016): Transcriptomic data from panarthropods shed new light on the evolution of insulator binding proteins in insects. BMC Genomics 17, 861. doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3205-1

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Geiger M.F., Astrin J.J., Borsch T., Burkhardt U., Grobe P., Hand R., Hausmann A., Hohberg K., Krogmann L., Lutz M., Monje C., Misof B., Morinière J., Müller K.F., Pietsch S., Quandt D., Rulik R., Scholler M., Traunspurger W., Haszprunar G., Wägele J.W. (2016): How to tackle the molecular species inventory for an industrialized nation – lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative GBOL (2012-2015) Genome 59(9): 661-670, DOI:10.1139/gen-2015-0185

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Mayer, C., Sann, M., Donath, A., Meixner, M., Podsiadlowski, L., Peters, R.S., Petersen, M., Meusemann, K., Liere, K., Wägele, J.-W., Misof, B., Bleidorn, C., Ohl, M., Niehuis, O. (2016): BaitFisher: A software package for multispecies target DNA enrichment probe design. Molecular Biology and Evolution doi:10.1093/molbev/msw056

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2015

Liu S, Wang X, Xie L, Tan M, Li Z, Su X, Zhang H, Misof B, Kjer KM, Tang M, Niehuis O, Jiang H, Zhou X (2015). Mitochondrial capture enriches mito-DNA 100 folds enabling PCR-free mitogenomics biodiversity analysis. Molecular Ecology Resources DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12472

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Teaching

It is really unfortunate that theoretically or bioinformatically working biologists often have a dramatic lack of organismic knowledge and on the other hand empirical biologists lack the bioinformatic basics of proper data analyses.
My teaching therefore aims to interest students in bioinformatics for organismic diversity and students interested in empirical work for basics in bioinformatics. Consequently,

I am involved in Master modules of the "Organisms, Evolution and Paleontology (OEP)" Master program of the University of Bonn with "Basics of Perl Programming for Biologists" and "The Fauna and Flora of the Alps" with excursions.

Additionally, I conduct a Bachelor course at the University of Bonn "Modeling and Simulating biological Systems".

Current position

Director of Research Museum Koenig and
Full Professor of Systematic Zoology at University of Bonn

Academic Degree

2002 Habilitation and venia legendi at the University of Bonn

1995 Doktor rer. nat.at the University of Vienna, Austria, in Evolutionary Biology, November 1995

1991 Magister rer. nat.at the University of Vienna, Austria

1986 Vordiplom in General Biology, 1984-1986

Career

since 2020 Professsor (W3), Chair of Systematic Zoology, University of Bonn, and director of Zool. Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn

2010-2020 Professsor (W3), Head of the Center of Molecular Biodiversity Research, University of Bonn and vice director of Zool. Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn

2009-2010 speaker of the Zoologisches Museum, University of Hamburg

2008-2010 Professsor (W3), Head of the Entomological Department, Biozentrum Grindel &Zoologisches Museum, University of Hamburg

2006 Assistent Professor, University of Copenhagen &Zoological Museum, declined

2001-2008 Curator of Lower Arthropods and Head of the Molecular Lab at the Zool. Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn

1999-2000 Assistant professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn

1998-1999 Schroedinger Post Doctoral fellow, University of Bonn

1995-1997 v.Humboldt Post Doctoral fellow, University of Bonn

1992-1995 Visiting Assistant in Research at the Center of Computational Ecology, Yale

1991-1992 Fullbright-comissioned fellow financed by the ministry of education, Austria, at Yale University

Reviewing, administrative responsibilities and consulting activities

since 2010 vice director of Zool. Forschungsmuseum A. Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn

2001-2004 Editorial board of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution present Editorial board of Entomologischen Abhandlungen

2004-2008 Coordinator for the restructuring of the Department of Biology in Kabul, Afghanistan

2005-2011 Member of the steering group of the SPP 1174 "Deep Metazoan Phylogeny"

Referee scientific journals, DFG, v. Humboldt Foundation, FWF, (inter)national promotions at the academic level

Supervision of PhD students

Currently Supervising 9 PhD and Diploma students in molecular phylogenetics and bioinformatics

Previously Supervised >10 PhD students at the Universities of Bonn and Hamburg

External Second examiner at the Universities of Lepizig, Vienna and Paris

Funding

1999-present Ten DFG grants, including "SPP1174 Deep Metazoan Phylogeny"

1998-1999 Recipient of a Schroedinger Post Doctoral Fellowship

1995-1997 Recipient of a v.Humboldt Post Doc Fellowship

1991-1992 Recipient of a Fullbright comissioned Fellowship to promote dissertational research

Further Grants from DAAD and the Leibniz society (WGL)

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