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
Exhibition in the University Library:
Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life
Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition
Deutsch/English
Verlängert/Extended: Aug 27, 2023
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
William Martin speaks about the origin and early evolution of life
08.02.2023 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
The ancestral mitotic state: Closed orthomitosis with intranuclear spindles in the syncytial last eukaryotic common ancestor
Genome Biology and Evolution evad016 (2023)
doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad016
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
Commentary on new findings in PNAS by Colman et al. about acetogen genomes recovered from serpentinizing hydrothermal vents
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2022)
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2216017119
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
Realistic gene transfer to gene duplication ratios identify different roots in the bacterial phylogeny using a tree reconciliation method
Life 12:995 (2022)
doi: 10.3390/life12070995
25.06.2022 Publication | Bunsen-Magazin
Origins as evolution of catalysts
Bunsen-Magazin (2022)
Cover-Story
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
Ancestral state reconstructions trace mitochondria but not phagocytosis to the last eukaryotic common ancestor
Genome Biology and Evolution (2022)
doi: 10.1093/gbe/evac079
30.04.2022 Podcast | Expedition in die Forschung
Bill Martin speaks about his research:
Wie startete das Leben?
In German and English
24.02.2022 Podcast | Night Science
Bill Martin speaks about how science works, reveals how he chooses a research question and boosts his creativity:
Bill Martin on paying attention
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
