Prof. Dr. Patricia Jean Wittkopp

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine Genetik und funktionelle Genomforschung,Evolutionäre Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie der Tiere
Keywordscis-regulatory sequences, gene expression, evolution, population genetics, genomics

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtAnn Arbor
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Michigan
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Dr. Eileen FurlongGenome Biology, Europäisches Laboratorium für Molekularbiologie (EMBL), Heidelberg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.05.2019

Programm(e)

2019Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor Wittkopp is a world-renowned evolutionary geneticist. She has made seminal contributions to our understanding of how life evolves by revealing molecular, genetic and developmental mechanisms by which phenotypes change. She integrates tools from developmental biology, molecular evolution, population genetics, bioinformatics and genomics. This integrative strategy has allowed her to tackle important yet difficult questions in evolutionary biology. During her stay in Germany, she will explore single cell genomic approaches.