Author Archives: Katja Nowick

Our study „A single gene orchestrates androgen variation underlying male mating morphs in ruffs“ made in on the cover of Science! Ruffs – a shore bird species – come in three different morphs that differ in appearance and behavior. “Independents,” have … Continue reading →

Our genomic study of rhesus macaques from Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico “Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques by inferring identity-by-descent segments” has been published in PNAS. We show that utilizing information from identity-by-descent (IBD) segments, relatedness of individuals in natural population can be … Continue reading →

Yao’s paper on his new tool for the interaction of Transposable Elements (TEs) with genes, TEKRABber, is published as Reviewed Preprint, “Regulatory networks of KRAB zinc finger genes and transposable elements changed during human brain evolution and disease” in eLife. … Continue reading →

Our manuscript has been accepted for publication in Ecology and Evolution. Congratulations to Baja and Vanessa!

Are you interested in provenience, human remains at FU and ethical considerations? We are discussing this in a new seminar series organized by Vanessa. It takes place Tuesdays at 5pm in the big lecture hall of the Zoology building (Koenigin-Luise-Strasse … Continue reading →

Our manuscript on mtDNA “Nomenclutter” and its Consequences on the Interpretation of Genetic Data has been accepted and recoomended by PCIEvolBiol. The very nice recommendation can be found here. Congratulations to Baja and Vanessa!

We submitted our manuscript on our study of functional relationships between KRAB-ZNF genes and transposable elements (TEs) to bioRxiv: “Regulatory networks of KRAB zinc finger genes and transposable elements changed during human brain evolution and disease”. In this work, Yao … Continue reading →

You have submitted your preprint entitled mtDNA “Nomenclutter” and its Consequences on the Interpretation of Genetic Data” to PCIEvolBiol, the Peer Community In for Evolutionary Biology. Baja and Vanessa describe very clearly the history of the nomenclature of human mitochondrial haplogroups, its … Continue reading →

We are happy to announce that we could finally hire Anne as our new technician. We are getting up to speed with our experiments 🙂

We have a new PhD student, Marula Mathew, who is strengthening the wetlab site of our team. Welcome Marula!