Name:
Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Status:
Group leader
Email:
ebb.admin [guesswhat] wwu.de (administration)
Tel.:
+49-(0)251-83-21630 (admin), -21011
Room:
100.16
Curriculum
- Full Professor of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, School of Biological Sciences, The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Germany, 2003 - present.
- Guest professor Universite Lyon1, Claude Bernard, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, June 2013 (sabbatical)
- Visiting Scholar EBI, Thornton Group "The Spices", Cambridge, April - July 2009 (sabbatical)
- Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK, 2000-2003
- Project Manager Biochemical Pathways and Databases, EML GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, 1998-2000
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany, 1996-1998
- Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.), Institute of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 1994-1996
- Summer School in Complex Systems, SantaFe Institute 1993
- PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biochemistry, University of Vienna, Austria, 1995
- Diploma (equ. to MSc) in Biochemistry, University of Vienna, Austria, 1992
- Studies in Biochemistry, Physics and Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 1981-1991
- Best school ever! (BRG4, 1973 -- 1981)
Current Teaching:
- BSc: Bioinformatics 2 (Evolutionary sequence analysis of proteins and RNA), Enzymology, optional module on Molecular Evolution.
- MSc: Several specialised courses on molecular evolution and computational biology and modelling of biological systems
- Contact hours: Tuesday 10:30 - 11:30 Room 110.6 (-> contact), please call in advance to secure availability
Research areas:
- P1: Multi-trait fitness landscape: Modelling Evolvability, Epistasis and Molecular Robustness in Molecular Evolution
- P2: Algorithms and Evolutionary Dynamics of Modular Protein Evolution
- P3: Evolutionary Origin, Fixation and Functions of de Novo Protein Coding Genes
- G1: Comparative Genomics and Molecular Mechansims Underlying Sociality, Ageing and Epigenetics in Insects
- G2: Population genomics, transcriptomics, meta-genomics and epi-genomics (ended)
Unified Research and Publication Profiles (... just marvel how little they match ...)
Research Consortia:
- EsCat - Evolutionary Synthetic Biology and Catalysis, EC FP2020 ITN (2016 - 2020)
- DrosEU - European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium
- MGSE - Münster Graduate School of Evolution (2009 -- ongoing)
- EvoPad - Evolutionary Processes in Adaptation and Disease, Graduertenkolleg der DFG 2220/0 (2016 - 2020)
- (T)Race back in Space -- Reconstruction of multi-functional ancestral molecular systems for high-throughput evolutionary selection processes, HFSP Research Grant (2013 - 2017)
- SoLong - DFG FOR 2281, Comparative genomics of the molecular basis of ageing in social insects (2015 -- 2021)
- GBR - Leibniz Graduate School on Genomic Biodiversity Research
- Genome projects (leading roles only): i5k Blattella germanica (german cockroach), Cryptotermes secundus (dry wood termite)
- DieTerm: Dietary restrictions and molecular effects on fecundity in long-lived termite queens.
Merits and Community Services:
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