group members

Franz
Baumdicker

PI

is interested in population genomics of microbes and how mathematical models can help to understand the evolution of bacteria.

Klara
Burger

PhD student

is interested in the comparison of machine learning applications and model-based approaches in population genetics.

positions
availabe

PostDoc or Master

We have currently positions available. Please get in touch if you would like to join the team.

Axel Fehrenbach

PhD student

investigates the evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR systems and their spacer arrays.

Johannes Kippnich

PhD student

is modeling the dynamics of CRISPR-antimicrobials and plasmids.

Hannah Götsch

visiting scientist

Hannah will soon be joining us to work on sampling biases in bacterial genomic databases.

Christian Resl

master student

Chris is looking at gene-co-occurrence in neutrally evolving populations.

Emile
Barbe

student assistant

Emile is working on a shiny app for forensic ancestry classification.

colleagues and collaborators

I am part of the SPP2141 CRISPR-Cas functions beyond defence

• CRISPR-Cas beyond defence SPP website

University of Freiburg

• Peter Pfaffelhuber
• Rolf Backofen
• HESS LAB - Genetics & Experimental Bioinformatics
• Fabian Staubach
• Omer Alkhnbashi

Big Data Institute Oxford

• Jerome Kelleher

Biozentrum Basel

• Richard Neher

Princeton University

• Corina Tarnita

NCBI Bethesda

• Eugene Koonin
• Itamar Sela

Broad Institute

• Guilhem Faure

Tel Aviv University

• Uri Gophna

Stochastik Rhein-Main Group

• Cornelia Pokalyuk
• Matthias Birkner
• Anton Wakolbinger

Others

• Anne Kupczok
• Peter Czuppon
• Felix Hermann