Welcome to the professorship for Computational EvoDevo Leipzig
EvoDevo: Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Regulatory processes and their organization in space and time control the development of multicellular organisms. The field of evolutionary developmental biology is concerned with the origin and evolution of development and the comparative analysis of develomental processes. The availability of a huge amount of data on developmental regulation from various species now allows us to approach topical questions in the field of EvoDevo with computational methods and models from systems biology.In our group we deal with the following topics relevant for the evolution of development:
- origin, evolution and interplay of regulatory mechanism
- the role of ncRNAs in regulatory RNA-protein complexes
- mapping of phenotypic and regulatory changes
- the role of epigenetics in cell differentiation and evolution