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 recently 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 finding samples of targets and neighbor (closest distinct relatives) 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.



Lloyd-Eddie Noll
Master student

noll@evolbio.mpg.de

I am a Master’s student currently working on my thesis, focusing on lineage-specific genomic regions of phytopathogenic fungi involved in the host infection process, as potential candidates for genetic markers.



Tjorben Nawroth
Master student

nawroth@evolbio.mpg.de

I am a Master’s student in Molecular Life Science at the Universität zu Lübeck, currently working on my thesis with the Bioinformatics Research Group at the MPI in Plön. My work focuses on developing an intuitive, web-based application designed to visualize and facilitate the exploration of phylogenetic taxonomies.



Sara-Lena Welk
Master student

welk@evolbio.mpg.de

I am a Master´s student from the University of Lübeck. I am currently working on my thesis, which focuses on comparing different tools for accessing evolutionary distances in prokaryotes and identifying and resolving the incongruence between taxonomy and phylogeny.

Alumni

  Name   Project
2022 Svenja Denker Master’s Student Marker Development using Taxonomic Information
2022 David Gmelin Master’s Student Fast Multiple Sequence Alignment
2020 Fabian Klötzl Master’s + Doctoral Researcher Efficient Estimation of Evolutionary Distances
Fast computation of genome distances
2019 Jessica Piontke Master’s Student Function and Complexity in Vertebrate Genomes
2018 Lina Urban Master’s Student Estimating Recombination Rates in D. pulex
2018 Lennart Weckeck Master’s Student A Method for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Calling in Diploid Individuals
2014 Angelika Börsch-Haubold Postdoc Epigenomics of Wild House Mice
2013 Linda Krause Master’s Student Quantitative Epigenetic Analysis of Histone Modifications in Wild-caught Mice
2010 Mirjana Domazet-Lošo Doctoral Researcher Algorithms for efficient alignment-free sequence comparison