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A short overview of things I have worked on. Not meant to be super informative, so if anything looks interesting, have a look around my site for more info.
News
05/2024: I joined the Molecular Pathology Unit at the Universtiy Hospital Zurich as a bioinformatician and I am excited to use my skills to improve efficiency and improve compliance with future regulations concerning QC.
07/2023: I presented a poster at SMBE 2023 on my ongoing work. Check it out! More infos under Portfolio.
06/2023: I gave a presentation highlighting PhD and some Postdoc work at the Wilhelminenberg Seminar in Vienna. Thanks for the invitation, Dustin! View it here.
07/2022: Our method for parent-offspring inference in highly inbred populations SPORE is now published in Molecular Ecology Resources!
02/2022: I have added a simplified version of the t dispersal evolution model here for people to play with. The paper is accepted at JEB and will soon be available (see Science).
10/2021: I started as a SNF PostDoc.Mobility fellow in the Schacherer Lab in Strasbourg. I will work with yeasts (sic! 😁) to study transmission distortion.
07/2020: I will return to the Bendesky Lab at Columbia University as a (in the beginning or so I thought) remote member researching inbreeding in the house mouse study by Barbara König.
05/2020: I have successfully defended my PhD and will announce future plans soon! You can find my defence under the PhD Defence section.
03/2020: I will defend my thesis virtually on May 19th!
08/2019: I am back in Zurich and aim to finish my PhD in Q1/2020.
06/2019: I will give a talk summarizing my results so far at Evolution 2019 in Providence, RI, USA.
02/2019: I have moved to New York City for 6 months to study the genomics of dispersal in a free-living wild house mouse population with Andrés Bendesky at Columbia University.
10/2018: The first chapter of my ongoing PhD work is now published at Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Find the press release here. There is also a video abstract.
09/2018: I will give a talk about early results from my enclosure experiment at the German Zoological Society meeting.
06/2018: I have been awarded with a Doc.Mobility grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will spend half of 2019 with Andrés Bendesky at Columbia University.
You have stumbled upon my personal homepage. I'm Jan and I have recently started as a bioinformatician at the Molecular Pathology Unit at the Universtiy Hospital Zurich after a following the traditional academic research path for a while. Previously, I worked (well, still kind of do a bit) with the Schacherer Lab at the University of Strasbourg, France on yeast evolutionary biology and Andres Bendesky at Columbia University on the genetic history of a well-monitored (and quite inbred!) wild house mouse population. For my PhD, I was a member of the research group Evolution and Genetics of Social Behaviour at the University of Zurich (UZH). There, I was working on a selfish genetic element in house mice. Among other things, I wanted to understand how the element survived for as long as it did given the many fitness drawbacks it has. I specialized in behavioural biology during my M.Sc. studies at the University of Göttingen with field work on red-fronted lemurs at a research station of the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Kirindy forest, Madagascar. Apart from pure research, what also fascinates me about evolution is the impact that an understanding of our nature can and should have on our lives and our societies, which is why I gravitate towards the evolutionary humanist position.
