Field of work
Insect comparative genomics
Steering committee DFG SPP 2349 (GEvol)
NEWS:
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11.04.2022: our ant supergene introgression paper got published by Nature Communications
Recurring adaptive introgression of a supergene variant that determines social organization. (Stolle E, Pracana R, et al., Wurm Y). Nature Communications 13: 1180. Altmetric
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JAN 2022: paper submitted , preprint posted for a collaboration on bee venoms
Bee core venom genes predominantly originated before aculeate stingers evolved. (Koludarov I, et al., Stolle E, von Reumont BM). bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.21.477203 , submitted
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Dec 2021 paper accepted in Science Advances on the origin of the honeybee
Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee
Dogantzis K, et al., Stolle E, et al., Zayed A). Science Advances 7 (49) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj2151
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Research interests
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member of the steering committee of the DFG Priority Programme “Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)” (SPP 2349).
Associated member of DFG research unit So-Long (FOR2281/2) between Freiburg, Mainz, Münster, Regensburg, Halle, Frankfurt, Groningen and Friborg.
I am interested in understanding evolutionary processes shaping genomes and chromosomes leading to phenotypic innovation and hence biodiversity. In particular I focus on bees and wasps, including social species. For my research, I’m combining aspects of biodiversity, phylogenetics, population genetics, molecular ecology and genetics with state-of-the-art genomics and bioinformatics approaches, including third generation sequencing, optical and genetic mapping.
Memberships
International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Entomologenvereinigung Sachsen-Anhalt (EVSA)
Awards
2019 SMBE Young Investigator Award, 2019 EASI Genomics grant, 2015-2017 Marie-Curie Intra European Fellowship, 2020 DFG grant (sequencing in projects, 2021 EASI Genomics Grant, 2020 DFG standard grant
Further information
thanks to our funders: DAAD, DFG, Marie-Curie-Actions, EASI-Genomics, Erasmus, CAPES (Brazil), Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, and the German and European Tax Payers!
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