Institut für Molekulare Evolution
Willkommen am Institut für Molekulare Evolution an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Unsere Forschungsinteressen sind Endosymbiose, Zellevolution, Genomevolution, frühe Evolution, der Ursprung des Lebens und die Entstehung des Stoffwechsels durch H2-abhängige CO2-Reduktion an hydrothermalen Quellen auf der frühen Erde.
Aktuelles
21.03.2024 Publication | PNAS
Ferredoxin reduction by hydrogen with iron functions as an evolutionary precursor of flavin-based electron bifurcation
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 121:e2318969121 (2024)
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2318969121
15.03.2024 Publication | Science
Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
Science 383:eadj9223 (2024)
doi: 10.1126/science.adj9223
24.02.2024 Podcast | Ole schaut hin
William Martin speaks about the origin of life
Evolutionsbiologe Professor Martin erklärt, wie das Leben entstanden ist
William Martin receives the 2023 Kimura Motoo Award by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology:
For the outstanding works on “early evolution of eukaryotic organisms”
13.12.2023 Graduation | Alexander MacLeod
Alexander MacLeod successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"On the phylogenetic distribution of plastid developmental components in the chloroplastida".
Exhibition in the University Library:
Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life
Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition
Deutsch/English
Verlängert/Extended: Aug 27, 2023
03.07.2023 Graduation | Falk Nagies
Falk Nagies successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Patterns and causes of gene evolution over long evolutionary distances in prokaryotes ".
Exhibition in the botanical garden: Grün, Steine, Erde – Unsere Welt im Wandel
Exhibition in the University Library:
Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life
Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition
Deutsch/English
May 10 – July 20, 2023
11.03.2023 Podcast | Reason with Science
William Martin speaks about the origin and early evolution of life
08.02.2023 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
The ancestral mitotic state: Closed orthomitosis with intranuclear spindles in the syncytial last eukaryotic common ancestor
Genome Biology and Evolution evad016 (2023)
doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad016
