Dr. habil. Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Focus of my Research
Cryptophytes are microscopic flagellated algae containing four genomes of different evolutionary origin in their cells. My research focuses on the molecular phylogeny and systematics of the cryptophytes and on the evolutionary history of their phenotypic and molecular characters. In my work I combine classical (differential interference contrast light microscopy, spectrophotometry, transmission electron microscopy) with molecular methods. A more detailed description of my research interests can be found here.
Teaching
Associated to the work group Melkonian, I am holding lectures and courses for beginners and advanced students in Biology at the Botanical Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany. My main teaching topics for advanced students comprise molecular phylogenetic methods from DNA isolation, PCR and sequencing to alignment and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Interested students may find potentially helpful instructions (in German) on how to prepare a presentation or a lab report below.
06 August 2009
Tyge Christensen Prize from the International Phycological Society in
recognition of the best algal paper published in Phycologia during 2007:
"Revision of the genus Cryptomonas (Cryptophyceae) II: incongruences
between the classical morphospecies concept and molecular phylogeny in smaller pyrenoid-less cells".
Phycologia 46: 402-428
Informationen für Studenten
Projekt zum Thema DNA-Barcoding von Cryptophyceen zu vergeben!