Institute of Molecular Evolution
Welcome to the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Our main scientific interests are endosymbiosis, cell evolution, genome evolution, early evolution, the origin of life, and the origin of metabolism from H2 dependent CO2 reduction at hydrothermal vents on the early Earth.
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
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".
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
08.02.2023 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution