SPP 2349:  Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)

• Subject Area: Biology
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 458908270

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• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: United Kingdom

Projects

• Alternative Splicing and the Evolution of Holometaboly (Applicants Bucher, Gregor ;  Stanke, Mario )
• Beyond averages: the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation (Applicants Metzler, Dirk ;  Pallares, Luisa )
• Co-option of sex determination and differentiation pathways in caste differentiation in ants (Applicant Schultner, Eva )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Bornberg-Bauer, Erich )
• Dramatic genome rearrangements in Cardiocondyla ants (Applicants Hecht, Jochen ;  Schrader, Lukas )
• Dynamics of chromosome evolution in termites: Inbreeding, novel chromosomal translocations and sociality (Applicants Huylmans, Ann Kathrin ;  McMahon, Dino )
• Emergence, loss and regulation of de novo genes (Applicants Bornberg-Bauer, Erich ;  Parsch, John )
• Evolution of epigenetic regulation in beetles (Coleoptera) (Applicants Kurtz, Joachim ;  Prohaska, Sonja J. )
• FormiDablE - Function, Diversity and Evolution of formicine ant venom peptides (Applicants Feldmeyer, Barbara ;  Niedermeyer, Timo H. J. ;  Tragust, Simon )
• Functional annotation of genomic innovations in a densely populated clade with deep learning (Applicants Bornberg-Bauer, Erich ;  Bucher, Gregor ;  Hoff, Katharina )
• Genetic and genomic structural evolution underlying feeding ecology transitions in the Hemiptera (Applicants Ebersberger, Ingo ;  Panfilio, Kristen )
• Genomic basis of adaptation to different habitats in the tube case making caddisfly (Trichoptera) family Limnephilidae (Applicant Heckenhauer, Ph.D., Jacqueline )
• Genomic Mechanisms of Olfactory Adaptation and Plasticity in Wasps, Ants, and Bees (Applicants Büllesbach, Jan ;  Feldmeyer, Barbara ;  Menzel, Florian ;  Nehring, Ph.D., Volker ;  Niehuis, Oliver ;  Schmitt, Thomas )
• GEvol-Defense – Evolution of novel cellular defences via horizontal gene transfer in leaf beetles (Applicants Peuß, Robert ;  Xu, Ph.D., Shuqing )
• Identification of genome architecture and gene expression impacting extreme sexual dimorphism in fireflies (Applicants Catalan, Ph.D., Ana ;  Höhna, Sebastian )
• ImmuNov: genomics and epigenomics of immune innovations in insects (Applicant Sommer, Simone )
• Molecular mechanisms and phenotypic consequences of paralog divergence in insects and chelicerates (Applicants Cordellier, Mathilde ;  Pechmann, Matthias ;  Posnien, Nico ;  Prpic-Schäper, Nikola-Michael ;  Turetzek, Natascha )
• Recurrent genomic dynamics linked to parallel evolution of secondary phytophagy in Hymenoptera (Applicant Sann, Manuela )
• Recurring phenotypic loss: Repeatability of genome and regulatory evolution (Applicants Colgan, Ph.D., Thomas Joseph ;  Nowick, Katja ;  Stolle, Eckart ;  Wipfler, Benjamin )
• Regulation of the eusocial genome (Applicants Grath, Sonja ;  Soro, Ph.D., Antonella )
• Revealing the genomic innovations during evolution of holometaboly (Applicants Bucher, Gregor ;  Stanke, Mario )
• Synteny-Based Identification of Genomic Innovations in Insects (Applicants Lemke, Steffen ;  Stadler, Peter Florian )
• The Diptera’s solution to the end-replication problem – selfish genetic elements as an insect innovation? (Applicants Czuppon, Peter ;  Wilfert, Lena )
• The evolution of genome compartmentalization in the ant genus Cardiocondyla (Applicants Makalowski, Ph.D., Wojciech ;  Schrader, Lukas )
• The evolutionary genomics of transcriptional regulation in beetle sociality (Applicants Biedermann, Peter ;  Feldmeyer, Barbara ;  Metzler, Dirk ;  Steiger, Sandra )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer