Christoph Eschenbrenner

Project

In my PhD project I work on members of the Zymoseptoria species complex which consists of fungal grass pathogens. Among these pathogenic fungi there are species highly specialized to domesticated crops as well as species specialized on wild grasses. In fact, this makes the Zymoseptoria species complex an ideal model system to study rapid adaptive evolution in closely related fungal plant pathogens.

I’m using comparative and population genomic approaches based on multiple and pairwise whole genome alignments within and between several Zymoseptoria species to understand, how domesticated and natural environments differently shaped genomes and populations. Additionally, molecular work underlines differences in chromosome composition within and between species. In another part of my project, I use computational methods to screen for genes involved in host specialization.


Short CV

2008-2011       Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Biology (B.Sc.).

2011-2014       Philipps-Universität Marburg; „Molecular and Cellular Biology“ (M.Sc.).

2014-Present   PhD student in the group of Eva Stukenbrock at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

 

Publications

Haueisen, J., Möller, M., Eschenbrenner, C. J., Grandaubert, J., Seybold, H., Adamiak, H., & Stukenbrock, E. H. (2017). Extremely flexible infection programs in a fungal plant pathogen. Submitted, 49(0), PhD thesis Janine Haueisen chapter 2. https://doi.org/10.1101/229997

Plath, M., Pfenninger, M., Lerp, H., Riesch, R., Eschenbrenner, C., Slattery, P. A., … Tobler, M. (2013). Genetic differentiation and selection against migrants in evolutionarily replicated extreme environments. Evolution, 67(9), 2647–2661.

Slattery, P., Eschenbrenner, C., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Streit, B., Bierbach, D., Riesch, R., … Lerp, H. (2012). Twelve new microsatellite loci for the sulphur molly (Poecilia sulphuraria) and the related Atlantic molly (P. mexicana). Conservation Genetics Resources, 4(4), 935–937. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-012-9677-7

 

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