People - Bornberglab - Bioinformatics at the IEB

Name: Wissler, Lothar

Status: Ph.D student

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Sep 2008 - Sep 2012: Ph.D Student, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, WWU Muenster
Funding: Volkswagen Foundation PhD Fellowship (since June 2009).
2007 - Aug 2008: MSc Biology, Special Study Program in Evolution and Biocomplexity, WWU Muenster
2003 - 2006: BSc Biology, WWU Muenster

Volkswagen Foundation Ph.D. fellowship (awarded 2009), Evolutionary Biology thematic impetus. Topic: Retention and functional adaptation of duplicated genes during the evolution of plant stress response
Annual Bernhard-Rensch Prize in Evolution and Biocomplexity (2008, MSc thesis) sponsored by the Volkswagen foundation

Arthropod comparative genomics, including sequence and domain evolution, expansion and contraction of gene functional classes, microsatellite evolution and others
The role of gene duplication events in plant evolution: how duplicated genes are retained and facilitate functional adaptation, in particular during the evolution of the plant stress response

Wissler L, Gadau J, Simola DF, Helmkampf M, Bornberg E.
Mechanisms and dynamics of orphan gene emergence in insect genomes
Genome Biol Evol, 2013
Simola DF, Wissler L, Donahue G, Waterhouse RM, Helmkampf M, Roux J, Nygaard S, Glastad KM, Hagen DE, Viljakainen L, Reese JT, Hunt BG, Graur D, Elhaik E, Kriventseva EV, Wen J, Parker BJ, Cash E, Privman E, Childers CP, Munoz-Torres MC, Berger SL, Boomsma JJ, Bornberg-Bauer E, Currie C, Elsik CG, Suen G, Goodisman MAD, Keller L, Liebig J, Rawls A, Reinberg D, Smith CD, Smith CR, Tsustui N, Wurm Y, Zdobnov EM, Gadau J.
Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality.
Genome Research, 2013
Wissler L, Godmann L, Bornberg-Bauer E.
Evolutionary dynamics of simple sequence repeats across long evolutionary time in genus Drosophila
Trends in Evolutionary Biology (2012) 4:1
[Online access]

Grbić M, Van Leeuwen T, Clark RM, Rombauts S, Rouze P, Grbić V, Osborne EJ, Dermauw W, Ngoc PC, Ortego F, Hernandez-Crespo P, Diaz I, Martinez M, Navajas M, Sucena E, Magalhaes S, Nagy L, Pace RM, Djuranović S, Smagghe G, Iga M, Christiaens O, Veenstra JA, Ewer J, Villalobos RM, Hutter JL, Hudson SD, Velez M, Yi SV, Zeng J, Pires-daSilva A, Roch F, Cazaux M, Navarro M, Zhurov V, Acevedo G, Bjelica A, Fawcett JA, Bonnet E, Martens C, Baele G, Wissler L, Sanchez-Rodriguez A, Tirry L, Blais C, Demeestere K, Henz SR, Gregory TR, Mathieu J, Verdon L, Farinelli L, Schmutz J, Lindquist E, Feyereisen R, Van de Peer Y.
The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations
Nature (2011) 479, 487-492. doi:10.1038/nature10640
[Online access]

Suen G, Teiling C, Li L, Holt C, Abouheif E, Bornberg-Bauer E, Bouffard P, Caldera EJ, Cash E, Cavanaugh A, Denas O, Elhaik E, Fave MJ, Gadau J, Gibson JD, Graur D, Grubbs KJ, Hagen DE, Harkins TT, Helmkampf M, Hu H, Johnson BR, Kim J, Marsh SE, Moeller JA, Muñoz-Torres MC, Murphy MC, Naughton MC, Nigam S, Overson R, Rajakumar R, Reese JT, Scott JJ, Smith CR, Tao S, Tsutsui ND, Viljakainen L, Wissler L, Yandell MD, Zimmer F, Taylor J, Slater SC, Clifton SW, Warren WC, Elsik CG, Smith CD, Weinstock GM, Gerardo NM, Currie CR.
The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle
PLoS Genetics (2011) 7(2): e1002007. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002007
[Online access]

Wissler L, Codoner FM, Gu J, Reusch TB, Olsen JL, Procaccini G, Bornberg-Bauer E.
Back to the sea twice: identifying candidate plant genes for molecular evolution to marine life
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2011) 11:8
[Online access]

Wissler L, Dattolo E, Moore AD, Reusch TB, Olsen JL, Migliaccio M, Bornberg-Bauer E, Procaccini G.
Dr. Zompo: an online data repository for Zostera marina and Posidonia oceanica ESTs
Database 2009; doi: 10.1093/database/bap009
[Online access]

Reusch TBH, Veron A, Preuss C, Weiner J, Wissler L, Beck A, Klages S, Kube M, Reinhardt R, Bornberg-Bauer E
Comparative Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) Libraries in the Seagrass Zostera marina Subjected to Temperature Stress.
Marine Biotechnology (2008) 10:297-309
[Online access]