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Dr. rer. nat. Leonardo Oña
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Ecology
School of Biology/ Chemistry​
University of Osnabrück
Barbarastrasse 13
49076 Osnabrück, Germany
Tel: ​+49 541 969-2255
Email: leonardo.onabubach (at) uni-osnabrueck.de ​
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Education and Scientific Career
Since 10/2016



08/2013 - 08/2016



2014

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​2007



2005
Postdoc, Division of Ecology, AG Kost
University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Research interest: Modelling syntrophic microbial communities.

Postdoc, Evolutionary Systems Biology Group.
University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Research interest: Evolution of Signal Transduction Networks.

PhD, Theoretical Biology Group.
Genetic Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Leipzig, Germany.
PhD Thesis Topic : The Evolution of Cooperation.

M.Sc. Theoretical Physics
Balseiro Insitute, Bariloche, Argentina.
Master Thesis Topic: Mutualism and Epidemiology.

M.Sc. Biology
University of Córdoba. Córdoba, Argentina.
Master Thesis Topic: Theoretical Neuroscience.

Honours and Awards
2009        Fellowship from the International Max Planck Research School​.
2005        Fellowship from the Argentinian National Commission of Nuclear Energy. 


Publications
 
Preprint(s)

Oña L, Taborsky B, G. Sander van Doorn. Evolution of sexual and clonal populations on complex adaptive landscapes. In prep.





Articles

Oña L, Kost C. (2022) Cooperation increases robustness to ecological disturbance in microbial cross-feeding networks.
​Ecology Letters. https://doi: 10.1111/ele.14006.

Pauli B, Oña L, Hermann M, Kost C. (2021) Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability.
Nature Communications (Accepted) bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.06.371757

Giri S, Oña L, Waschina S,  Shitut S, Yousif G, Kaleta C, Kost C. (2021) Metabolic dissimilarity determines the establishment of cross-feeding interactions in bacteria.
​Current Biology S0960-9822(21)01408-1 . 

Oña L, Giri S, Avermann N, Kreienbaum M, Thormann KM, Kost C. (2021) Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria.
Nature Ecology and Evolution 5 (9), 1224-1232.

Preussger D, Giri S, Muhsal LK, Oña L, Kost C (2020) Reciprocal Fitness Feedbacks Promote the Evolution of Mutualistic Cooperation.
Current Biology. Vol 30, 18, P3580-3590.E7.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.100

Oña L, Lachmann M (2019) Signalling architectures can prevent cancer evolution.
Scientific Reports 10, N 674.

Oña L, Oña SL, Wertz AE (2019) The evolution of plant social learning through error minimization. 
Evolution and Human Behaviour. Volume 40, Issue 5, Pages 447-456.

Kamiya T, Oña L, Wertheim B, van Doorn SG (2016) Coevolutionary feedback elevates constitutive immune defence: a protein network model. 
BMC Evolutionary Biology. 5;16(1):92.

Scheider L, Waller BM, Oña L, Burrows AM, Liebal K (2016) Social Use of Facial Expressions in Hylobatids. 
​PLoS One. (2016) 15;11(3):e0151733.

Scheider L, Liebal K, Oña L, Burrows A, Waller B (2014) A comparison of facial expression properties in five hylobatid species. 
​Am J Primatol. 76(7):618-28.

Oña L, Kouyos RD, Lachmann M, Bonhoeffer SL (2013 ) On the role of Resonance in Drug Failure Under HIV Treatment Interruption Therapy.   
​Theor Biol Med Model. 11;10:44. doi: 10.1186/1742-4682-10-44.

Abramson G, Del-Soto C, Oña L (2011) The Role of Asymmetric Interactions on the Effect of Habitat Destruction in Mutualistic Networks.   
PloS One (6(6): e21028. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021028).

Oña L, Lachmann M (2011) Ant Aggression and Evolutionary Stability in Plant-Ant and Plant-Pollinator Mutualist Interactions.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology Vol. 24, Issue 3 Pages 469–697.


Dissertations

Oña L. Cooperation at different levels of biological organization (2014). University of Leipzig, Germany. Ph.D. Thesis.

Oña L. Population dynamics under heterogeneous conditions (2007), Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. Master Thesis. 
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