Current group members

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Haubold
Group leader

haubold@evolbio.mpg.de

I work on fast methods for genome comparison. This involves a fair amount of programming, which I do in the literate programming idiom, where a program is addressed primarly to a human reader rather than to a machine. I also teach at Lübeck University and am a coauthor of two textbooks on computational biology.



Dr. Beatriz V Mourato
Bioinformatician

mourato@evolbio.mpg.de

I finished my PhD on the applications of fast methods of genome comparison to find unique genomic regions. I am now exploring how to improve methods for identifying clades of target genomes.



Ivan Tsers
Doctoral researcher

tsers@evolbio.mpg.de

I am a doctoral researcher in the group. Currently I’m working on possible applications of unique genomic regions as taxonomically informative markers.



Tjorben Nawroth
Guest

nawroth@evolbio.mpg.de

Finished my Master’s student in Molecular Life Science at the Universität zu Lübeck. I am currently expanding my work on vitax, a web-based application designed to visualize and facilitate the exploration of phylogenetic taxonomies.



Sara-Lena Welk
Research assistant

welk@evolbio.mpg.de

Recently finished the masters. I am currently expanding on the work of my thesis on resolving the incongruence between taxonomy and phylogeny.

Alumni

  Name   Project
2026 Lloyd-Eddie Noll Master Thesis Lineage-specific genomic regions and their diagnostic potential in Ustilaginaceae
2026 Tjorben Nawroth Master Thesis Vitax- visualizing the NCBI Taxonomy
2025 Sara-Lena Welk Master Thesis Comparison of tools for calculating the average nucleotide identity and an analysis of incongruence between microbial taxonomy and phylogeny
2022 Svenja Denker Master Thesis Marker Development using Taxonomic Information
2022 David Gmelin Master Thesis Fast Multiple Sequence Alignment
2020 Fabian Klötzl Doctoral Thesis Fast computation of genome distances
    Master Thesis Efficient Estimation of Evolutionary Distances
2019 Jessica Piontke Master Thesis Function and Complexity in Vertebrate Genomes
2018 Lina Urban Master Thesis Estimating Recombination Rates in D. pulex
2018 Lennart Weckeck Master Thesis A Method for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Calling in Diploid Individuals
2014 Angelika Börsch-Haubold Postdoc Epigenomics of Wild House Mice
2013 Linda Krause Master Thesis Quantitative Epigenetic Analysis of Histone Modifications in Wild-caught Mice
2010 Mirjana Domazet-Lošo Doctoral Thesis Algorithms for efficient alignment-free sequence comparison