People >> Lothar Wissler

	Name: Lothar Wissler Status: Ph.D. student Email: l.wissleruni-muenster.de Room: 205  Tel: +49 251 83-21086

• Sep 2008 - present: Ph.D Student, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, WWU Muenster
  Funding: Volkswagen Foundation PhD Fellowship (since June 2009).
• 2007 - Aug 2008: MSc Biology, Special Study Program in Evolution and Biocomplexity, WWU Muenster
• 2003 - 2006: BSc Biology, WWU Muenster

• Volkswagen Foundation Ph.D. fellowship (awarded 2009), Evolutionary Biology thematic impetus. Topic: Retention and functional adaptation of duplicated genes during the evolution of plant stress response
• Annual Bernhard-Rensch Prize in Evolution and Biocomplexity (2008, MSc thesis) sponsored by the Volkswagen foundation

• Arthropod comparative genomics, including sequence and domain evolution, expansion and contraction of gene functional classes, microsatellite evolution and others
• The role of gene duplication events in plant evolution: how duplicated genes are retained and facilitate functional adaptation, in particular during the evolution of the plant stress response

• Lothar Wissler, Lars Godmann, and Erich Bornberg-Bauer
  Genome-wide conservation of SSRs, Simple Sequence Repeats, across long evolutionary time scale in genus Drosophila
  submitted


• The Spider Mite Genome Consortium, including Lothar Wissler
  The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations
  Nature (2011) 479, 487-492. doi:10.1038/nature10640


• The Atta Genome Working Group, including Lothar Wissler 
  The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle
  PLoS Genetics (2011) 7(2): e1002007. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002007


• L. Wissler, F.C. Codoner, J. Gu, T.B.H. Reusch, J.L. Olsen, G. Procaccini and E. Bornberg-Bauer
  Back to the sea twice: identifying candidate plant genes for molecular evolution to marine life
  BMC Evolutionary Biology (2011) 11:8
  [Online access]


• L. Wissler; E. Dattolo; A. D. Moore; T. B. H. Reusch; J. L. Olsen; M. Migliaccio; E. Bornberg-Bauer; G. Procaccini
  Dr. Zompo: an online data repository for Zostera marina and Posidonia oceanica ESTs
  Database 2009; doi: 10.1093/database/bap009


• Reusch TBH, Veron A, Preuss C, Weiner J, Wissler L, Beck A, Klages S, Kube M, Reinhardt R, Bornberg-Bauer E (2008) Comparative Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) Libraries in the Seagrass Zostera marina Subjected to Temperature Stress. Marine Biotechnology 10:297-309
  

• Third Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation Evolutionary Biology Initiative: Evolution at the Sea
  Rantum, Sylt (GER), Nov 7-11, 2011
  Sponsored by: The Volkswagen Foundation
  
  
• Second Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation Evolutionary Biology Initiative: Evolution on an Island
  Fraueninsel, Lake Chiemsee (GER), May 9-12, 2010
  Sponsored by: The Volkswagen Foundation
  


• Cologne Spring Meeting 2009: The variable genome
  Cologne (GER), Mar 18-20, 2009
  Sponsored by: SFB680, Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, and others


• First Status Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation Evolutionary Biology Initiative: Micro to Macro Evolutionary Change
  Münster (GER), Feb 25-27, 2009
  Sponsored by: The Volkswagen Foundation
  
  
• Evolution across scales
  Potsdam (GER), May 26-28, 2008
  Sponsored by: The Volkswagen Foundation
  


• The Physcomitrella genome workshop
  Freiburg (GER), Mar 16-18, 2008
  Sponsored by: German Botanical Society (Section Physiology and Molecular Biology), Chair Plant Biotechnology (University of Freiburg).