Thesis projects Microbial Evolution
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Building a robust PVC species phylogeny
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An automated workflow for ortholog informed generation of gene trees
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Tracking down the bacterial ancestor of mitochondria
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Tracing the ins & outs of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic microbes
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Cultivating Asgards, eukaryotes’ closest relatives
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Wanted: Asgard archaea – Isolated and Alive
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Piecing together the prokaryote to eukaryote transition
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Chasing uncultivated Archaea – from genomics to cultivation
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Studying ecology and physiology of previously uncultivable anaerobic microbial communities.
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FISHing the closest microbial relative of the eukaryotic cell