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	Name: Anna R. Kersting nee Reineke Status: PhD student Email: a.kerstinguni-muenster.de

• 2012: two month as visiting scientist at the University of Preorita (South Africa)
• April 2008 - present: PhD student in the group of Evolutionary Bioinformatics, IEB
• 2007: Visiting student with  practical study for the diploma thesis at the College of natural ressources, Utah State University, Logan, UT (USA)
• 2006: internship at the zoological garden in Guadalajara (Mexico)
• 2004: internship at the enviromental agency in Minden (Germany)
• 2004: internship at  the zoological garden Osnabrück (Germany)
• 2002-2007: Diploma study, Bielefeld University
• 2002: language school in Salamanca (Spain)
• 2002: graduating at the Gymnasium Johanneum in Wadersloh (Germany)

Research interest

• Evolution of conserved motifs in the upstream region of stress genes in plants
• Annotation of plant proteins
• Evolution of upstream region

Attended conferences / workshops

• Bernhard Rensch Summer School 2008
  University of Münster (Germany) June 30-July 11,2008
• The Phycomitrella Genome Workshop 2009
   University of Freiburg, (Germany) June 1-3,2009  
• Conference on Stress and Evolution 2010
  University of Münster (Germany) July 14-16, 2010
• 9thEuropean Conference on Computational Biology 2010
  Ghent (Belgium) September 26-29, 2010
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Students' Symposium evolution across fields
  University of Münster (Germany) February 17-18, 2011
• Plant Genome Evolution Conference
  Amsterdam (Netherlands) September 03-06, 2011

 

 

• A.R. Kersting, E. Bornberg-Bauser, A.D. Moore, and S. Grath
  Dynamics and adaptive benefits of protein domain emergence and arrangements during plant genome evolution
  Genome Biol. Evol. 4(3):316–329. , 2011
• A.R. Reineke, E. Bornberg-Bauer and J. Gu
  Evolutionary divergence and limits of conserved non-coding sequence detection in plant genome
  Nucleic Acids research (2011) Vol. 39, No. 14 6029–6043
• B. Ruping, A.M. Ernst, S.B. Jekat, S. Nordzieke, A.R. Reineke, B. Müller , E. Bornberg-Bauer, D. Prüfer and G.A. Noll
  Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of the sieve element occlusion gene family in Fabaceae and non-Fabaceae plants
  BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10:219
• A.M. Ernst, B. Ruping, S.B. Jekat, S. Nordzieke, A.R. Reineke, B. Müller , E. Bornberg-Bauer, D. Prüfer and G.A. Noll
  The sieve element occlusion gene family in dicotyledonous plants 
  Plant Signaling & Behavior 2011, V6