Claudia Acquisti
Professor
Biology
University of Munster
Germany
Biography
Professional Appointments - 2010-present Junior Professor for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, WWU Münster, Germany; 2006-2010 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA; 2005-2006- Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany; 2004-2005- Visiting Scientist, Institute for Molecular Biology, Free University, Berlin, Germany. Education; 2005- Ph.D. Complex Systems, University of Pisa, Italy; 2004- M.Sc. Applied Bioinformatics, University of Cologne, Germany; 1999- M.Sc. Molecular Biology, University of Florence, Italy
Research Interest
Bioinformatics, Molecular Evolution; Ecological genetics; Evolutionary ecology
Publications
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Acquisti C, Poste G, Curtiss D, Kumar S (2007) Nullomers: Really a Matter of Natural Selection? PLOS ONE 2.
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Acquisti C, Elser JJ, Kumar S (2009) Ecological nitrogen limitation shapes the DNA composition of plant genomes. Molecular biology and evolution 26: 953-956.
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Acquisti C, Kumar S, Elser JJ (2009) Signatures of nitrogen limitation in the elemental composition of the proteins involved in the metabolic apparatus. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 276: 2605-2610.
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He F, Chen WH, Collins S, Acquisti C, Goebel U (2010) Assessing the Influence of Adjacent Gene Orientation on the Evolution of Gene Upstream Regions in Arabidopsis thaliana. GENETICS 185: 695-701.
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Elser JJ, Acquisti C, Kumar S (2011) Stoichiogenomics: the evolutionary ecology of macromolecular elemental composition. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 26: 38-44.
