group members

Franz
Baumdicker

PI

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

Hannah Götsch

PostDoc

works on sampling biases in bacterial genomic databases and machine learning methods for population genetics.

Lukas
Tatzel

PostDoc

AI & Data Science Fellow working on genome-wide association studies and ancestral recombination graphs.

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, and develops machine learning methods for HGT analysis.

Yuxin
Ning

PhD student

Yuxin studies simulation-based inference in population genetics and pangenomes.

Leonie Wehnert

Master student

looks at pangenome graph construction in plant pangenomes.

Yamin Mazou

bachelor student

works on simulations and visualization of mutation patterns.

 

former group members

Klara
Burger

PhD student

developed and analyzed machine learning applications and model-based approaches in population genetics. Now at Roche Pharma AG.

Sandrine Wayou Fossouo

visiting master student

Sandrine is working on the evolution of mutation rates in fluctuating environments

Christian Resl

master student

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

Jules Kreuer

master student

Jules is looking into the effect of horizontal gene transfer on pangenomes.

Philip Höllein

master student

Philip worked on simulations for plant breeding schemes and selfing species.

Huiting Xu

master student

Huiting is working on the interpretability of CNNs in population genetics.

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

University of Freiburg

Big Data Institute Oxford

Biozentrum Basel

Princeton University

NCBI Bethesda

Broad Institute

Tel Aviv University

Stochastik Rhein-Main Group

Others