Open Call 2016

Title: The genomic basis of potentially ongoing evolution of selfing syndrome in Cardamine amara, an emerging model species for plant mating system evolution

Main Applicant: Dr. Reiko Akiyama¹

Supervisor: Dr. Rie Shimizu-Inatsugi¹

Co-applicant: Dr. Hiromi Matsumae¹

¹Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, UZH

 

Title: Exploring the trajectories and genomic consequences of the Walser expansion

Main Applicant: Dr. Natasha Arora¹

Supervisor: PD Dr. Michael Krützen²

Co-applicants: Prof. Dr. Laurent Excoffier ³, Dr. Simon Aeschbacher ⁴

¹Institute of Forensic Medicine, UZH

²Department of Anthropology, UZH

³Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern

⁴Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis

 

Title: Cooperation or competition: Interactions of bacterial strains with different evolutionary background

Main Applicant: Dr. Michael Baumgartner¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jakob Pernthaler¹

Co-applicant: Prof. Dr. Leo Eberl¹

¹Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UZH

 

Title: Testing the role of siRNAs in hybrid incompatibility, are they responsible for the drastic shift in allele-specific expression in hybrid seeds?

Main Applicant: Dr. Ana Marcela Florez-Rueda¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ueli Grossniklaus¹

¹Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UZH

 

Title: The transcriptional basis of inbreeding depression and fitness rescue by prenatal maternal investment

Main Applicant: Dr. Kate Ihle¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Barbara Tschirren¹

Co-applicant: Kasia Sluzek¹

¹Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, UZH

 

Title: Genetic bases of the adaptive radiation within a species revealed by the genome-wide polymorphism

Main Applicant: Dr. Ayako Izuno¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kentaro Shimizu¹

¹Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, UZH

 

Title: Probing the epigenetic response to transposable elements

Main Applicant: Dr. Kartal Önder¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ueli Grossniklaus¹

Co-applicant: Prof. Dr. Ralph Schlapbach ²

¹Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UZH

²Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETHZ

 

Title: Is competition between bacteria based on fixed or phenotypically plastic responses? - answers from a transcriptome study

Main Applicant: Anne Leinweber¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rolf Kümmerli¹

¹Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, UZH

 

Title: Genetics of host adaptation of Blumeria graminis (powdery mildew)

Main Applicant: Marion Müller¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Beat Keller¹

Co-applicant: Dr. Salim Bourras¹

¹Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UZH

 

Title: Genome wide association study of heavy metal tolerance in Medicago truncatula and evolutionary genomics of metal tolerant nitrogen fixing rhizobia

Main Applicant: Dr. Timothy Paape¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kentaro Shimizu¹

¹Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, UZH

 

Title: Distinct changes of floral morphology in Mimulus aurantiacus - Discovering underlying epigenetic regulatory DNA marks.

Main Applicant: Dr. Yvonne Möller-Steinbach¹

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ueli Grossniklaus¹

Co-applicant: Prof. Dr. Mark Robinson²

¹Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UZH

²Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, UZH