Dr. Kai Muller
Professor
Biology
University of Munster
Germany
Biography
(2009) Professorship for Botany, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU Münster (Germany); 2006 Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Assistant professor) at the Nees Institute (Bonn, Prof. Barthlott), Head of the Systematics and Evolutionary Working Group and Lab at the lab of Prof. C. dePamphilis, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA; 2005 Promotion as Dr. rer. nat. with the thesis "Evolution of Amaranthaceae - A case study integrating molecular phylogenetics and pollen data", PhD supervisor Prof. W. Barthlott (University of Bonn), summa cum laude; 1996- 2001 University course in Biology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; 2002- 2005 Occupation at the Nees Institute. PhD student in the DFG project "Phylogeny of the Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae alliance and pollen evolution" of Dr. T. Borsch; supervisor: Prof. W. Barthlott; 2001 Graduation from Bonn University (Diploma in Biology); main subjects Botany, minor subjects Zoology and Chemistry; Diploma thesis titled "A phylogenetic analysis of Lentibulariaceae based on sequences of matK and adjacent non-coding regions"; grade 1.0, mark of distinction (supervisor: Prof. W. Barthlott).
Research Interest
Evolution of angiosperm carnivory; indel evolution; DNA sequence alignment for phylogenetic analysis; Eudicot evolution; Phylogenetic signaling in highly variable chloroplast DNA markers; Bioinformatics: software development; Genome evolution Parasitic plants
Publications
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Levy Karin E, Wicke S, Pupko T, Mayrose I: An integrated model of phenotypic trait changes and site-specific sequence evolution. Systematic Biology 2017.
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Levy Karin E, Ashkenazy H, Wicke S, Pupko T, Mayrose I: TraitRateProp: A web server for the detection of trait-dependent evolutionary rate shifts in sequence sites. Nucleic Acids Research 2017, 45:W260-W264.
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Barré P, Stöver BC, Müller KF, Steinhage V: LeafNet: A computer vision system for automatic plant species identification. Ecological Informatics 2017, 40:50-56.
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Noben S, Kessler M, Quandt D, Weigand A, Wicke S, Krug M, Lehnert M: Biogeography of the Gondwanan tree fern family Dicksoniaceae?A tale of vicariance, dispersal and extinction. Journal of Biogeography 2017.
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Araya Y, Bartelheimer M, Valle C, Crujeiras R, GarcÃa-Baquero, G: Does functional soil microbial diversity contribute to explain within-site plant beta-diversity in an alpine grassland and a dehesa meadow in Spain?. Journal of Vegetation Science.
