Welcome to the junior professorship for Computational EvoDevo Leipzig
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The junior professorship for "Computational EvoDevo" belongs to the Applied Computer Science department at the Institute of Computer Science (ifi). |
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The group derived from the Professorship for Bioinfomatics in December 2010 when the first junior professorship at the Institute of Computer Science was staffed with Dr. Sonja Prohaska. |
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Since December 2008, the group is affiliated with and supported by the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics (IZBI). |
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