Start-up

"Talented early career researchers should be encouraged to remain in science and academia. Directly following completion of their doctorates they should therefore be enabled to define and design their own research topics, which can serve as the basis for independent project proposal."

— DFG description of start-up module

Projects of the first phase

• Population genomics of highly fecund codfish
• Rapid evolution of Drosophila growth regulation
• Implications of climate change on the evolution of virulence in a parasitic dinoflagellate
• The role of gene flow in rapid adaptation of fungal plant pathogen

Projects of the second phase

• Project HYPERWASP: Rapid adaptation to a novel competitor of Nasonia vitripennis
• Sweepstakes reproduction or selective sweeps?
• LongRNAFun: The role of long antisense RNAs in the rapid evolutionary adaptation of the barley
  powdery mildew pathogen