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Our Working Groups
curently ongoing...
Research Projects
Epigenetics
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MAGE - A Model of the Aging Epigenome
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Epigenetic inheritance
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Properties of histone modifications
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Epigenetic Memory
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Evolution of epigenetic regulation in beetles (Coleoptera)
Evolution of Life
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The modern RNA world: non-coding RNA-based genetic regulation as a prerequisite for the emergence of multicellular complexity (funded by the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico
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Differential evolution of non-coding DNA across eukaryotes could lead towards different pathways of multicellular complexity (funded by the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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Investigation of the gene phylogeny of GPCRs and associated molecules
RNA-Protein Interaction
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Inference and structural analysis of RNA-protein binding motifs
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Evolution of Complex Translational Control Elements in the Innate Immune Response
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Unusual RNA-polymerases: reaction mechanism and substrate specificity of tRNA nucleotidyltransferases