Announcements

GRK TransEvo und Kiel Evolution Center veranstalten Konferenz zur Anwendung evolutionsbiologischer Prinzipien in Medizin, Naturschutz und Nahrungsmittelproduktion

Different groups of TB bacteria exist worldwide with different regional distribution: some are generalists and can be found on many continents, others are very limited in their spread. An international team of researchers has now been able to show for the first time that the specialist strains spread more effectively among suitable hosts from the same geographical area, whereas generalist strains can spread in different host populations from a variety of geographical settings. The transmissibility of tuberculosis therefore depends not only on the pathogen or the host but also on their combination.

"Evolutionary and genetic aspects of human longevity"

An international research team led by Professor Dr Thorsten Reusch from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has discovered the oldest known marine plant using a novel genetic clock. This 1400-year-old seagrass clone from the Baltic Sea dates back to the Migration Period. The research project is a significant step towards better understanding and protecting marine ecosystems. The study with the results is published today in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

German Research Foundation funds the international doctoral program “Translational Evolutionary Research” at Kiel University for another 4.5 years

"Genetic analysis of Cercospora leaf spot resistance in species of genus Beta"

Rent-a-Scientist is a free offer to school classes to have a scientist design a lesson on a specific topic.

“Exploring the impact of the human FUT2 gene on gut lactobacilli and bifidobacteria to improve gut health through personalised probiotics”

The two RTGs GenEvo from Mainz and our TransEvo will join forces for a
winter school in the "Akademie Waldschlösschen" near Göttingen in November 2024

Our RTG TransEvo supports the seminar series Club EvMed with a couple of
talks on antibiotic resistance evolution, including talks by Barbora
Trubenova, Jens Rolff, Csaba Pal, and Pamela Yeh

The prestigious annual meeting of the International Society of
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health will take place in Kiel in July
2026 - with a central contribution of our RTG TransEvo

"Characterizing trade-offs of the FUT2 gene for the improvement of gut health"

"Genomics of Fisheries Induced Evolution"

"Modelling therapeutic options in pancreatic cancer cell lines"

"Plant pathogen evolution on wild and domesticated hosts"

"Robustness of evolution-informed treatments across the genomic diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

Students from schools in Schleswig-Holstein and all over Germany took advantage of the Kiel University's Science Outreach offer in person and online.

Check out all Darwin day talks here

"Pregnancy, late-life fertility and longevity in the sex-role reversed pipefish."

"The impact of clonal heterogeneity and plasticity on malignancy associated properties and therapy response in pancreatic cancer."

The "Evolution by the Sea" annual conference is an occasion to reward excellence among the young scientists from the participating research consortia. Two Isabelle Olivieri Medals, each endowed with 5000 euros, will be awarded for outstanding publications in the field of translational evolutionary research. The medals go to Hanna Schenk and Kwi Han for their work on the significance of ecological and evolutionary changes due to overfishing, as well as on the special value of diversity in the microbiome, respectively. In addition, the TransEvo Innovation Prize is awarded as a start-up fund for interdisciplinary and innovative post-doctoral projects in the field of translational evolutionary research, after completion of the doctoral thesis. Florian Buchholz and Freya Pappert receive the award, which comes with 45,000 euros each, to tackle research projects in the field of antibiotic resistance evolution and changes in gender roles in the animal kingdom, respectively.

US evolutionary biologist Jessica Metcalf talks as a keynote speaker at the "Evolution by the Sea" conference of the Kiel evolutionary biology research initiatives

Joint project across CAU research initiatives to, once a month, highlight one female researcher within the scientific environment of Kiel University

"The evolution of plasmid gene content in Enterobacteriaceae"

"An evolutionary perspective on antibiotic treatment and the spread of resistance"

Joint project across CAU research initiatives to, once a month, highlight one female researcher within the scientific environment of Kiel University

Current allele distribution of the human longevity gene APOE in Europe can mainly be explained by ancient admixture.

Simplified screening of individual bacterial species in biosamples.

A method developed in the TransEvo research training group saves time and costs when analyzing complex microbiological samples.

Early identification and combating new antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00002-2

Under long-term fisheries management, evolutionary change, that has resulted in smaller maturation sizes, can be reversed profitably.

Original publication: Hanna Schenk, Fabian Zimmermann, Martin Quaas (2023). The Economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution. Nature Sustainability.

European Research Council funds research project "pMolEvol" on the evolution of plasmids at Kiel University with 2 Mio Euros

European Research Council funds "FungalSecrets" research project at Kiel University with 2 Mio Euros to uncover links between fungal pathogens and the plant microbiome

The Kiel Science Prize 2023 will be awarded to the evolutionary ecologist and geneticist Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schulenburg from Kiel University (CAU).

Joint project across CAU research initiatives to, once a month, highlight one female researcher within the scientific environment of Kiel University

Professor Andrew Read from Penn State University is the keynote speaker at the annual conference "Evolution by the Sea" of the evolutionary biology research initiatives at Kiel University and its partner institutions

Please register by August 26, using the link below

"The plant phyllosphere microbiome in health and disease"

June 2 @ 2 p.m. / 4th floor seminar room - ZMB

They are considered masters of evolution: bacteria. For more and more people, the antibiotics prescribed no longer help. But instead of developing new drugs to fight bacteria, researchers in Kiel and Lübeck are advocating a new strategy.

Please apply via the following link by April 21, 2022: transevo.de/application

"Evolution of antimicrobial peptide resistance" / March 21 @ 2 p.m. / lecture hall E59 - Biology Center, CAU

ZMB Young Scientist Grant Ceremony, Zoom-Webinar on March 3, 2022 /// Please register for Zoom here

Interdisciplinary Master project in theoretical ecology and experimental cancer biology 

with Takeshi Kawakami, senior research scientist at Embark /// Jan 25 @ 4 p.m. /// contact: