Name:
Grath, Sonja
Status:
Postdoc
Email:
Tel.:
+49-(0)251-83-
Room:
Sonja Grath at the University of Munich (LMU)
Curriculum
vitae:
July 2010 to June 2012
Westfalian Wilhelms University (WWU), Germany
Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, Evolutionary Bioinformatics Group, Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer
February 2007 to June 2010
- University of Munich (LMU),
Germany
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)
- Dissertation: Molecular Evolution of Sex-Biased Genes in Drosophila ananassae [pdf]
(Supervision: Prof. Dr. John Parsch)
March 2005 to December 2006
- Munich Technical University (TU) and University of Munich (LMU),
Germany
Master degree Bioinformatics
- Master’s Thesis: Comparison of distance- and kernel-based
methods for structured data
(Supervision: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kramer, TU)
October 2001 to March 2005
- Munich Technical University (TU) and University of Munich (LMU),
Germany
Bachelor degree Bioinformatics
- Bachelor’s Thesis: Influence of fusogene peptides on fusion of
liposome-membranes
(in German, Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dieter Langosch/Dr. Markus Gütlich, TU)
October 1999 to October 2001
Munich Technical University (TU), Germany
Studies
of Computer Science
Research Interests
- Expression and transcriptomics
- Next generation sequencing
- Molecular evolution of sex-biased genes
- Population genetics
- Protein domain evolution
Attended conferences / workshops
- 13th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
Poster presentation
Tuebingen, Germany, August 20-25, 2011
- 5th Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium
Oral presentation
Kansas City, United States of America, June 8-12, 2011
- Conference on Stress and Evolution
Poster presentation
Münster, Germany, July 14-16, 2010
- Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)
Poster presentation, oral presentation (symposium workshop)
Lyon, France, July 4-8, 2010
- 43rd Population Genetics Group Meeting
Oral presentation
Liverpool, United Kingdom, January 5-8, 2010
- 12th Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
Poster presentation
Torino, Italy, August 24-29, 2009
- 101st Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG)
Oral presentation
Jena, Germany, September 19-22, 2008
- EES Summer School "Evolution of sex-chromosomes"
Oral presentation
Frauenchiemsee, Germany, September 14-19, 2008
- 20th European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC)
Poster presentation
Vienna, Austria, September 12-14, 2007
Publications
Journal Publications
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Terrapon N*, Weiner J*, Grath S, Moore AD and Bornberg-Bauer E
Rapid similarity search of proteins using alignments of domain arrangements.
*these authors contributed equally to this work.
Bioinformatics, 30, 274-281, 2014
[Online access]
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Moore, AD., S. Grath, A. Schüler, A. K. Huylmans, and E. Bornberg-Bauer
Quantification and functional analysis of modular protein evolution in a dense phylogenetic tree.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics 1834, (5): 898–907, 2013
[Online access]
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Niehuis, O.*, G. Hartig*, S. Grath*, H. Pohl, J. Lehmann,
H. Tafer, A. Donath, V. Krauss, C. Eisenhardt, J. Hertel, M. Petersen,
C. Mayer, K. Meusemann, R. S. Peters, P. F. Stadler, R. G. Beutel, E.
Bornberg-Bauer, D. D. McKenna, and B. Misof (2012):
Genomic and morphological evidence converge to resolve the enigma of Strepsiptera.
*these authors contributed equally to this work.
Curr Biol, 22(14):1309-13.
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Grath, S. and J. Parsch (2012):
Rate of amino acid substitution is influenced by the degree and
conservation of male-biased transcription over 50 million years of Drosophila evolution.
Genome Biol Evol. 4(3):346-359.
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Kersting, A., E. Bornberg-Bauer, A. D. Moore*, and S. Grath* (2012):
Dynamics and adaptive benefits of protein domain emergence and arrangements during plant genome evolution.
*corresponding authors
Genome Biol Evol. 4(3):316-329.
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Müller, L., S. Grath, K. v. Heckel, and J. Parsch (2012):
Inter- and intra-specific variation in Drosophila genes with sex-biased expression.
Int J Evol Biol. 2012:963976.
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Grath, S., J. F. Baines, and J. Parsch (2009):
Molecular evolution of sex-biased genes in the Drosophila
ananassae subgroup.
BMC Evol Biol. 9:291.
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Schug, M. D., J. F. Baines, A. Killon-Atwood, S. Mohanty, A.
Das, S. Grath, S. G. Smith, S. Zargham, S. F. McEvey, and W. Stephan
(2008):
Evolution of mating isolation between populations of
Drosophila ananassae.
Mol Ecol. 17(11):2706-2721.
Conference Proceedings
Terrapon N., S. Grath, J. Weiner, A. D. Moore and E. Bornberg-Bauer (2012):
Fast Homology Search Using Domain-Architecture Alignment.
Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques (JOBIM), Rennes, July 3-6.