bornberg-bauer – bornberglab.org

Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer

Email: ebb.admin@uni-muenster.de (administration)

Tel.: +49-(0)251-83-21630 (admin), -21011

Room: 100.16

TSVP Visiting Scholar, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, July - October 2024 (sabbatical)
Guest scientist, affilitated to: Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Dept. Protein Evolution (Prof. Andrei Lupas) 2018 - present.
Full Professor of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, School of Biological Sciences, The 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)

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, please call in advance to secure availability

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)

GEvol - Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations, DFG SPP 2349 (2022 - ongoing)
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.

Four HFSP grants (2006 co-PI, 2013 PI, 2018 co-PI, 2023 co-PI);
Member Faculty of 1000
Editor in Chief "Bioinformatics and Biology Insights" (since 2009); Board member " Genes (Since 2019)", Editor "Trends in Evolution" (2010-2013), "Proc. Royal Soc. Interface" (since 2012), "J. Exp. Zoology" (since 2012), " Assc. EditorJournal of Molecular Evolution" (since 2019).
Member steering commitees: DEMAIN Münster, MGSE Münster, GBR Bonn