Master/Bachelor projects
Please find more about our open Master and Bachelor projects:
Master/IRT1-3 PROJECTS "Firefly genomics and transcriptomics."
Supervisor and Contact: Dr. Ana Catalán (Catalan@bio.lmu.de)
Master/IRT3 PROJECT "How inversions can aid adaptation. Experimental evolution of artificial inversions in fission yeast".
Supervisor and Contact: Cristina Berenguer Millanes (berenguer@bio.lmu.de) or Bart Nieuwenhuis (nieuwenhuis@bio.lmu.de).
Master's thesis (+IRT3) projects available in the Speciation Behaviour Group
Project 1. "Using CRISPR to test the role of Regucalcin in Heliconius mate choice."
Supervisor: Prof. Richard Merrill (merrill@bio.lmu.de) and Matteo Rossi
Project 2. "Larval adaptations contributing to reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies." Supervisor: Prof. Richard Merrill (merrill@bio.lmu.de) and Dr. Lucie Queste
Project 3. "Evolutionary genetics of visual adaptation in Heliconius butterflies." Supervisor: Prof. Richard Merrill (merrill@bio.lmu.de) and Dr. Shane Wright
Master's thesis (+IRT3) projects available on mating-system evolution
Supervisor: Dr. Bart Nieuwenhuis (nieuwenhuis@bio.lmu.de)
"23 000 sexes? Evolutionary genomics of sexual types in fungi." Project description
"The many costs of self-(in)compatibility." Project description