Past Group Members
Katie Emelianova
Postdoc, 2022-2025
Now Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
Clara Groot Crego
PhD candidate, graduated 2024
PhD thesis: Molecular sources of variation and their role in the adaptive radiation of Tillandsia, Bromeliaceae
Now Postdoctoral fellow, Federal Research Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Vienna, Austria.
Linus Moser
MSc student, graduated 2024
MSc thesis: Transcriptomic drivers of plant adaptation to the desert in Nicotiana sect. Suaveolentes (Solanaceae)
Fabian Oberauer
MSc student, graduated 2024
MSc thesis: Epigenetic responses to cadmium pollution in Lumbricus terrestris
Now PhD student, Department of Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Johannes Zechmeister
MSc student, graduated 2024
MSc thesis: Whole genome re-sequencing unravels complex speciation processes within the RRc clade of the radiated Diospyros in New Caledonia
Arne Bilke
MSc student, graduated 2023
MSc thesis: The role of smRNA regulation during recurrent ecotype formation in Heliosperma pusillum (Caryophyllaceae)
Now PhD student, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Mayra Briceno
MSc student, graduated 2023
MSc thesis: Transposable element dynamics during the adaptive radiation of Diospyros from New Caledonia
Ahmad Muhamad
PhD candidate, graduated 2023
PhD thesis: Population genetics of selected Boraginaceae and their transcriptomic changes upon phytohormonal and microbial interaction
Now Postdoctoral fellow, Federal Research Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Vienna, Austria.
Gil Yardeni
PhD candidate, graduated 2022
PhD thesis: Phylogenetic relationships and the evolutionary history of Tillandsia, a species-rich genus of Bromeliaceae
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Boku Vienna
Mimmi Eriksson
PhD candidate, graduated 2022
PhD thesis: Rinse and repeat: genome dynamics following repeated allopolyploidzation in marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza)
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Ingvarsson Lab, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Aglaia Szukala
PhD candidate, graduated 2022
PhD thesis: Parallel and adaptive processes during ecotype formation in Heliosperma pusillum (Caryophyllaceae)
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Federal Research Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Vienna, Austria.
Matt Thornton
MSc student, graduated 2022
MSc thesis: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of smRNA activity after allopolyploidization in marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza majalis s.l.)
Now TA, Bergthaler Lab, CEMM Vienna, Austria.
Anna-Sophie Hawranek
MSc student, graduated 2021
MSc thesis: The impact of recurrent origins and gene flow on the genetic structure of allopolyploid marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza, Orchidaceae)
Now PhD student, Group Structural and Functional Botany, University of Vienna, Austria.
Michael KJ Janda
MSc student, graduated 2021
MSc thesis: Evolution of the Primula auricula complex (Primulaceae) in the Eastern Alps
Huiying Shang
PhD candidate, graduated 2021, co-supervised with Christian Lexer and Thibault Leroy
PhD thesis: Genomics of the speciation continuum in Eurasian Populus species
Aljaž Jakob
MSc student, graduated 2021
MSc thesis: Phylogenomics of Nicotiana section Suaveolentes (Solanaceae), with a focus on N. benthamiana
Christina Hedderich
PhD candidate, 2019-2021
Marie Kristine Brandrud
PhD candidate, 2015-2019
PhD thesis: The use of phylogenomic tools to investigate diploid and polyploid evolution in Dactylorhiza and other orchids
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo
Thomas Wolfe
PhD candidate, 2015-2019
PhD thesis: Genomic interactions and their eco-physiological implications for the evolution of allopolyploid marsh orchids
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Boku Vienna
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Emiliano Trucchi
Postdoc, 2014-2017
Now Professor, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
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Francisco Balao
Marie Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2014
Now Professor, University of Seville, Spain
Balao Lab
Arezoo Fani
MSc student, graduated 2019
MSc thesis: Gene regulation by small RNAs at different altitudes in Heliosperma pusillum (Caryophyllaceae)
Maria Tannhäuser
MSc student, graduated 2016
MSc thesis: Genetic differentiation and admixture patterns between Dactylorhiza allopolyploids with a focus on alpine sympatric populations (Orchidaceae)
Now Boku Vienna
Alexander Athanasiadis
Student apprentice, 2016-2017
Tamás Hatfaludi
TA, 2017
Marie Huber
TA, 2017-2019
Juliane Baar
TA, 2014-2017
Maria Teresa Lorenzo
TA, 2013-2014
Baohai Hao
Research assistant, 2014-2015
Daniel Jacob Diehl
Research assistant, 2014-2015