Dr. Kerstin Hoef-Emden
PD Dr. Kerstin Hoef-Emden
My research focuses on the molecular phylogeny and systematics of cryptophyte algae. Cryptophytes are microscopic flagellated unicellular algae with a complex evolutionary history. They contain four genomes of different evolutionary origin in their cells.
As a PD associated to the AG Melkonian, I am also holding beginners and advanced students courses at the Botanical Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany.
At the German Conference on Bioinformatics at Bielefeld 2004 (GCB 2004), I offered a tutorial about molecular phylogenetic methods and their pitfalls from the practical side. Here are the PDFs of the presentation and an updated version of example command blocks for PAUP 4.0b10 or MrBayes 3.1.2 as supplementary material (updated July 2007).
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
Contact:
Universität zu Köln, Biowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Botanisches Institut Otto-Fischer-Str. 6 50674 Köln Germany phone (office): +49-221-470-8093 phone (lab): +49-221-470-8092 fax: +49-221-470-5181 e-mail: kerstin.hoef-emden@uni-koeln.de