Author Archives: Katja Nowick

Our Programming for Evolutionary Biology course sparked interest in the German news service. The radio station MDR-Info did an interview with me, which was broadcasted on April 3rd 2013. In the interview I describe the content and philosophy of the … Continue reading →

Chris Balakrishnan and me are organizing a symposium on  “Evolution of behavior: Comparative genomics and transcriptomics” for the SMBE meeting this year. We invited three excellent speakers: David Clayton, Todd Preuss, and Suzy Renn The Meeting will take place in Chicago … Continue reading →

Registration now open! After the great success of our course last year, there will be a 2013 edition: http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/ We have again excellent teachers and speakers for you to learn how to program and analyze large datasets to answer evolutionary … Continue reading →

Stefano presented his work on the evolution of a transcription factor network in primate brains at the Trends in Biology and Evolution conference. This conference is an annual, international meeting organized by CIBIO in Portugal.

To be published in Trends in Genetics: Katja Nowick, Miguel Carneiro and Rui Faria (2012) A prominent role of  KRAB-ZNF  transcription factors  in  mammalian speciation? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168952512001916 In this paper we suggest that members of the family of KRAB-ZNF transcription factors … Continue reading →

Our research group is among the first groups that got awarded a research project within the newly founded German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). In this project we are going to investigate the role chromosomal rearrangements and accompanying sequence … Continue reading →

We are organizing an international programming school for Biologists (or related scientists). The focus will be on teaching how to solve questions related to evolution in a computational way. The school will take place at the University Leipzig from March 17th … Continue reading →

Together with Rui Faria’s group from CIBIO (Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal) we got awarded our grant to study chromosomal speciation. We will investigate the “Genomic distribution of sequence and gene expression differences … Continue reading →

Rosalina, Stefano, and Lia presented their latest research results at the annual Fall seminar in Bioinformatics in Vysoka Lipa (Decin), in the Czech Republic. We also enjoyed the company of all of our colleagues while playing games, hiking, and drinking … Continue reading →

In this paper we describe the genome of a German individual for which we independently sequenced both haplotype sequences of each chromosome. We revealed that most genes and their regulatory regions have different sequences on the two chromosomes. This means … Continue reading →