Research Focus

We are interested in several aspects of microbial evolution, in particular in the diversity of biological systems with focus on energy and carbon microbial metabolic strategies and how they evolved from one to the other.

• Bioenergetic evolution with focus on- “lego” nature of protein complexes, fusions, large scale single gene phylogenetic investigations (tens of thousand genes at a time), large scale comparative genomics, pathway distributions across prokaryotic domains.

• Physiology and ecology of Archaea with a focus on the metabolism of the different groups of archaea, their innovations, evolution and diversity.

• Automatic classifications of metabolism based on (meta)genomic data.

Group Members

• Chloe Ellis
• Caroline Ivesic
• Val Karavaeva, M.Sc.
• Sinje Neukirchen, PhD
• Anastasiia Padalko, M.Sc.
• Jordi Zamarreno Beas, PhD

Former projects

• Microbial biotransformations in biogeochemical cycles
  

Current collaborations

William F. Martin. Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. D-40225
Düsseldorf, Germany (http://www.molevol.hhu.de/)