Sonja Grath at the University of Munich (LMU)

Curriculum vitae:  

July 2010 to June 2012

• 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

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

1. 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]
2. 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]
3. 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. 
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.