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Evolutionary Microbiology

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Research Areas & Expertise

NATURAL SCIENCESNATURAL SCIENCES » Biological sciences

Experimental evolution, genomics, phylogenomics

Principal Investigator

Tal Dagan

tdagan@ifam.uni-kiel.de

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

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Faculty/school/department
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Biology department, Institute of General Microbiolgy
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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

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Tal Dagan
Short description of research profile

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.

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Technology Expertise

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

number of researchers
17
number of supporting staff
2
number of PhD students
7
Size of the team