People>>Susanne

	Name: Susanne Franssen Status: Ph.D. Student Email: s.franssenuni-muenster.de

• May - August 2011: visiting student at the Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics hosted by Prof. Dr. C. Schlötterer, Institute for Population Genetics,  University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
• September 2008 - present: PhD Student, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, IEB
  
  Funding: Volkswagen Stiftung Fellowship (since May 2009). 
• 2007 - 2008 Diploma thesis within the GAME-Project (Global Approach by Modular Experiments), Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR), University of Auckland
• 2002 -2008 Study of Bioinformatics, Diploma, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt

Research Interest

• Molecular evolution and adaptation to abiotic stress of seagrasses
• Transcriptome & expression analysis
• Application of Next generation sequencing technologies
• Investigation of genetic mechanisms of expression divergence in Drosophila

Publications

• Susanne U. Franssen, Jenny Gu, Nina Bergmann, Gidon Winters, Ulrich C. Klostermeier, Philip Rosenstiel, Erich Bornberg-Bauer, and Thorsten  B.H. Reusch
  Transcriptomic resilience to global warming in the seagrass Zostera marina, a marine foundation species
  PNAS (2011), 108(48):19276-81
  [Online access]


• Susanne U. Franssen, Roshan P. Shrestha, Andrea Bräutigam, Erich Bornberg-Bauer and Andreas P.M. Weber
  Comprehensive transcriptome analysis of the highly complex Pisum sativum genome using next generation sequencing
  BMC Genomics (2011), 12:227
  [Online access]

Attended conferences / workshops 

• Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics,
  30.01. - 10.02.2012, Uppsala University, Sweden
  Workshop Web Page
• Third VW Status Symposium in Evolutionary Biology
  7. - 11. November 2011, Sylt, Germany
  Conference Web Page
• ISMB & ECCB
  19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Sytems for Molecular Biology & 10th European Conference on Computational Biology
  17 -19 July 2011, Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Next Generation Sequencing Symposium
  03 - 05 November 2010, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
• Münster Conference on Stress & Evolution
  14 - 16 July 2010, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster, Germany
• Interdisziplinäre Tagung
  5 - 7 December 2009, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
  
  Darwin - Die Evolution und unser heutiges Bild vom Menschen
• 08 - 10 June 2009, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
  EMBL Advanced Course in Analysis of Short Read Sequencing Data
• "From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology"
  15 - 18 November 2008, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
  4th EMBO Conference