Academic positions
2013-present W3 Professor, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
2012-2013 W2 Professor, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf
Education
2011 Habilitation (Microbiology), Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf
2005 Ph.D. (Molecular evolution) Tel-Aviv University
2000 M.Sc. (Molecular evolution) Tel-Aviv University
1998 B.Sc. (Biology) Tel-Aviv University
Bacteria are found everywhere: in clouds and raindrops, on tree leaves, in soil and oceans, on and in our body. Unlike eukaryotes, bacterial evolution comprises both vertical and horizontal components. Recombination at the species level plays a role in selective sweeps through the population, while inter-species lateral gene transfer (LGT) has important implications to microbial adaptation and evolutionary transformations. In our research we study molecular and genome evolution of microbial genomes.
Experimental evolution, genomics, phylogenomics
Garoña A, Santer M, Hülter NF, Uecker H, Dagan T. Segregational drift hinders the evolution of antibiotic resistance on polyploid replicons. PLOS Genetics. 2023;19: e1010829. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010829
Tria FDK, Landan G, Picazo DR, Dagan T. Phylogenomic Testing of Root Hypotheses. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2023;15: evad096. doi:10.1093/gbe/evad096
Woehle C, Roy A-S, Glock N, Michels J, Wein T, Weissenbach J, et al. Denitrification in foraminifera has an ancient origin and is complemented by associated bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2022. p. e2200198119. doi:doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220019811
Wein T, Wang Y, Barz M, Stücker FT, Hammerschmidt K, Dagan T. Essential gene acquisition destabilizes plasmid inheritance. PLOS Genetics. 2021;17: e1009656. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1009656
Wein T, Romero Picazo D, Blow F, Woehle C, Jami E, Reusch TBH, et al. Currency, Exchange, and Inheritance in the Evolution of Symbiosis. Trends in Microbiology. 2019;27: 836–849. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2019.05.010