Evolutionary Genomics Lab

annelid_evolution

P.I.: Christoph Bleidorn

Research interests

  • Deep phylogenies (Annelida and other groups)
  • Mitogenomics
  • Evo-Devo of Annelida
  • Evolution of arthropod-endosymbiont relationships
  • Venom evolution (focus on annelids)

Research organisms

  • Annelida
  • Arthropoda (focus on insects)
  • Wolbachia and other bacterial endosymbionts (e.g., Rickettsia, Sodalis)

Bioinformatic, analytic, experimental skills

  • Assembly of genomes and transcriptomes
  • Expression analyses, read mapping
  • Phylogenomic analyses
  • Illumina sequencing (wgs and RNAseq)
  • Target enrichment

Lab website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christoph_Bleidorn

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=MJ7LVDsAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

E-mail: christoph.bleidorn@gmail.com