Institute of Molecular Evolution
Welcome to the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Our main scientific interests are endosymbiosis, cell evolution, genome evolution, early evolution, the origin of life, and the origin of metabolism from H2 dependent CO2 reduction at hydrothermal vents on the early Earth.
Aktuelles
03.07.2023 Graduation | Falk Nagies
Falk Nagies successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Patterns and causes of gene evolution over long evolutionary distances in prokaryotes ".
Exhibition in the botanical garden: Grün, Steine, Erde – Unsere Welt im Wandel
Exhibition in the University Library:
Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life
Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition
Deutsch/English
May 10 – July 20, 2023
11.03.2023 Podcast | Reason with Science
08.02.2023 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
18.12.2022 Radio | rbb Radio Eins – Zwei auf Eins
Sven Oswald and Daniel Finger interviewed William Martin about the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) on rbb Radio Eins, a radio station broadcast by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in Berlin and Brandenburg, in the program "Zwei auf Eins":
28.10.2022 Graduation | Andrey do Nascimento Vieira
Andrey do Nascimento Vieira successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"The role of nitrogen in the onset of metabolism".
26.10.2022 Publication | PNAS
21.09.2022 Graduation | Bing Song
Bing Song successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled
"On the origin and distribution of prokaryotic cellulases and metazoan oxygen sensing pathway".
04.07.2022 Publication | Life
25.06.2022 Publication | Bunsen-Magazin
21.06.2022 Publication | Trends in Plant Science
The greening ashore
Trends in Plant Science (2022)
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.05.005
HHU report: In German | In English
15.06.2022 Graduation | Jessica Wimmer
Jessica Wimmer successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Energetik und Stoffwechsel des letzten gemeinsamen Urvorfahren".
08.06.2022 Prize | Martina Preiner
Dr. Martina Preiner receives Düsseldorfer Förderpreis für Wissenschaften 2021
01.06.2022 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
30.04.2022 Podcast | Expedition in die Forschung
24.02.2022 Podcast | Night Science
10.01.2022 Press | Rheinische Post
Rheinische Post, a major German regional daily newspaper, published an article about Bill Martin and his research on the origin of life:
Wie das Leben auf der Erde begann