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My Reserach, Science Communication and Teaching

You find more information about me, my research, my tools,
my science communication, my teaching and my publications on my Homepage 🏠.

Press and Media

English:

• Recorded Talk: The LEGO builder's guide of evolution | BioInformaticsGRX (RSG Spain Granada)
• Unravelling arthropod genomic diversity over 500 million years of evolution
• Researchers reconstruct 500 million years of insect evolution
• Researchers gain new insights into the evolution of proteins

Deutsch/German:

• Aus Alt mach Neu - Vom Lego Bauen und der Evolution, KlarText Blog der Klaus-Tschira-Stiftung
• Innovation liegt in den Genen - Interview in Laborpraxis
• Forscher rekonstruieren 500 Millionen Jahre der Insektenevolution
• Forscher gewinnen neue Einblicke in die Evolution von Proteinen

Curriculum Vitae

• 2022 - present Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG funded SPP 2349
  GEvol: Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations
• 2020 - 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher in the DFG funded Research Unit FOR2281
  SO-LONG Research Unit: Sociality and the reversal of the fecundity-longevity trade-off
• 2015 - 2020 PhD in Bioinformatics at WWU Münster with Prof. Dr. Bornberg-Bauer
  Thesis: Protein Domains as Molecular Markers for Large Scale Sequence Analysis
• 2012 - 2015 Master of Science in Biology (Special Study Program "Evolution and Biocomplexity"), WWU Münster
  Thesis: The Evolutionary Origin of Novel Enzyme Functions
• 2009 - 2012 Bachelor of Science in Biology, WWU Münster

Publications

• DeNoFo: a file format and toolkit for standardised, comparable de novo gene annotation
  Dohmen E, Aubel M, Eicholt LA, Roginski P, Luria V, Karger A, Grandchamp A
  preprint on bioRxiv, 2025 📄
• De Novo Gene Emergence: Summary, Classification, and Challenges of Current Methods
  Grandchamp A, Aubel M, Eicholt LA, Roginski P, Luria V, Karger A, Dohmen E
  preprint on EcoEvoRxiv, 2025 📄
• Reduced regulatory complexity associated with the evolutionary transition to sociality from cockroaches to termites despite evolutionary parallels with Hymenoptera
  Jones ARC, Dohmen E, Berger J, Legendre F, Harrison MC, Bornberg-Bauer E
  preprint on bioRxiv, 2024 📄
• Major changes in domain arrangements are associated with the evolution of termites
  Mikhailova A, Dohmen E, Harrison MC
  Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2024 📄
• Comparative Evolutionary Genomics in Insects
  Feldmeyer B, Bornberg-Bauer E, Dohmen E, Fouks B, Heckenhauer J, Huylmans AK, Jones ARC, Stolle E, Harrison MC
  Comparative Genomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2024 📄
• Complex regulatory role of DNA methylation in caste- and age-specific expression of a termite
  Harrison MC, Dohmen E, George S, Sillam-Dussès D, Séité S, Vasseur-Cognet M
  Open Biology, 2022 📄
• New Genomic Signals Underlying the Emergence of Human Proto-Genes
  Grandchamp A, Berk K, Dohmen E, Bornberg-Bauer E
  Genes, 2022 📄
• The modular nature of protein evolution: Domain rearrangement rates across eukaryotic life
  Dohmen E, Klasberg S, Bornberg-Bauer E, Perrey S, Kemena C
  BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 📄
• Gene content evolution in the arthropods
  Thomas GWC, Dohmen E, [...], Richards S
  Genome Biology, 2020 📄
• Higher-order epistasis shapes the fitness landscape of a xenobiotic-degrading enzyme
  Yang G, Anderson DW, Baier F, Dohmen E, Hong N, Carr PD, Kamerlin SCL, Jackson C, Bornberg-Bauer E, Tokuriki N
  Nature Chemical Biology, 2019 📄
• DOGMA: a web server for proteome and transcriptome quality assessment
  Kemena C, Dohmen E, Bornberg-Bauer E
  Nucleic Acids Research, 2019 📄
• Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the heat stress response of Daphnia pulex: ROS-mediated activation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) and heat shock factor 1 (HSF-1) and the clustered expression of stress genes
  Klumpen E, Hoffschröer N, Zeis B, Gigengack U, Dohmen E, Paul RJ
  Biol. Cell, 2017 📄
• DOGMA: domain-based transcriptome and proteome quality assessment
  Dohmen E, Kremer LPM, Bornberg-Bauer E, Kemena C
  Bioinformatics, 2016 📄