Team
Head of the department
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Research interests: Ecology and evolution of metabolite cross-feeding among microorganisms. Genomic and physiological consequences of a synergistic coevolution. Contact-dependent interactions among bacterial cells. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics within microbial interaction networks. Bacterial multicellularity.
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Department Assistant
Senior Research Fellow
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Dr. rer. nat. Leonardo Oña (Group leader)
Research interests: Theoretical Biology. Evolution and maintenance of cooperative interactions. Evolution of biological networks. Coevolutionary dynamics within microbial communities.
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Research Assistant
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Dr. rer. nat. Linéa Muhsal
Research interests: Ecology and evolution of metabolite cross-feeding among microorganisms. Genomic and physiological consequences of a synergistic coevolution. Bacterial multicellularity.
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Postdocs
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hisaksson(at)uni-osnabrueck.de
Research interests: Multicellular life cycles—emergence, stability, and evolution. I use mathematical modeling to study life-cycle evolution in groups consisting of single or multiple species.
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PhD students
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Research interests: Impact of relatedness on cooperation.
Evolution of ecological interactions in different species. |
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Research interests: Emergence, development and regulatory mechanisms of bacterial interaction within artificial and natural metabolic networks. With reference to involved membrane structures of the nanotubes.
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Research interests: Metabolic interdependencies within soil dwelling bacteria. Evolution and maintenance of cooperative interactions. Coevolutionary dynamics within soil microbial communities.
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M.Tech. Swagatika Dash
Research interests: Impact of biotic interactions on the establishment of soil bacterial communities: interplay between synergism and antagonism. Phenotypic heterogeneity within isogenic bacterial populations: causes and functional benefits.
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Research interests: Co-existance and cross-feeding in bacterial communities. Bacterial interaction networks and metabolic network. Molecular cues, signaling and costs within bacterial interactions.
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Research interests: Metabolic cross-feeding interactions - establishment, regulatory drivers, molecular mechanisms and metabolic trade-offs among bacterial communities.
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Research interests: Evolution of altruistic suicide in multicellular clusters of bacteria- causes and consequences.
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Research interests: Unraveling the eco-evolutionary dynamics of synergistic interactions and the genomic consequences of synergistic coevolution.
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Technical assistants & Staff
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Diplom.-Biol. Antje Moehlmeyer
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Technical Assistant Saskia Schuback
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Master Students
Bachelor Students
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B.Sc. candidate Anastasiia Vostrikova
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B.Sc. candidate Tatiana Vostrikova
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B.Sc. candidate Lukas Broermann
Research interests: Supervisor: Shubharti Pal |
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B.Sc. candidate Marie Schlebusch
Research interests: Supervisor: Priyanka Mondal |
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B.Sc. candidate Paula Bongers
Research interests: Investigating if the peculiarity of auxotrophy in E. coli is an influential factor in microbial networks interactions.
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B.Sc. candidate Finn Dinnus
Research interests: The fitness effects of partner loss in free-living mutualistic associations.
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B.Sc. Karmen Lohstroh
Research interests: Bacterial innovations in the context of multicellularity.
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