Marie Kristin Lebherz
PhD student
Email: m.lebherz@uni-muenster.de
Tel.: +49251 8321634
Room: 100.20
ORCID:0009-0009-4592-3179
Curriculum
- 2024 - Present: PhD student in the group of Erich Bornberg-Bauer, University of Muenster, Germany
- 2023 - 2024: Research assistant in the group of Erich Bornberg-Bauer, University of Muenster, Germany
- 2022 - 2023: Master Thesis student in the group of Erich Bornberg-Bauer, University of Muenster, Germany
- 2020 - 2023: Master of Science (Msc) in Biosciences, University of Münster
- 08/2019 - 12/2019: Erasmus semester, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
- 2017 - 2020: Bachelor of Science in Biosciences, University of Münster Thesis: "Influence of the developmental environment on behavioural and physiological responses of Drosophila melanogaster-females to different levels of mating pressure"
Research Interests
- De novo protein evolution
Publications
- Kristin Lebherz, M., Ravi Iyengar, B., & Bornberg-Bauer, E. (2024). Modeling length changes in de novo ORFs during neutral evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution, evae129.
- Lebherz, M. K., Fouks, B., Schmidt, J., Bornberg-Bauer, E., & Grandchamp, A. (2024). DNA Transposons favour de novo transcript emergence through enrichment of transcription factor binding motifs. Genome Biology and Evolution, evae134.
- Grandchamp, Anna, Lucas Kühl, Marie Kristin Lebherz, Kathrin Brüggemann, John Parsch, and Erich Bornberg-Bauer. "Population genomics reveals mechanisms and dynamics of de novo proto-gene emergence in Drosophila melanogaster." Genome Research vol 33; no. 6 (2023).