Research Groups in the Zoological Institute
of the University of Basel

Dieter Ebert

• Coevolution and the evolution of host-parasite interactions
• Experimental and theoretical epidemiology
• Evolution in metapopulations
• Evolutionary genomics
• Evolution of microbiota

For more details view the page of the group of Dieter Ebert.

For Master thesis projects contact dieter.ebert-at-unibas.ch or click here.

Louis Du Pasquier

• Evolution of the immune system
• Origin of the lymphocyte receptors of the immunoglobulin superfamily

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Walter Salzburger

• Evolution of animal diversity and speciation
• Evolution of sexually and naturally selected traits
• Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics

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For Master theses projects contact walter.salzburger-at-unibas.ch or click here.

Lukas Schärer

• Sexual selection and sexual conflict in hermaphroditic animals
• Sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sex allocation
• Mating behaviour and mating conflicts

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For Master thesis projects contact lukas.scharer-at-unibas.ch or click here.

Mathias Kölliker

• Evolution of conflict and cooperation in social communities, in particular in animal families
• Theoretical and experimental evolutionary genetics
• Behavioural and chemical ecology of social interactions

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For Master thesis projects contact mathias.koelliker-at-unibas.ch or click here.

Valentin Amrhein

• Communication and sexual selection
• Behavioural ecology of birds
• Vertebrate conservation biology

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For Master thesis projects contact v.amrhein-at-unibas.ch

Jean-Claude Walser

• Transposable Elements
• Genome Evolution
• Chromosome Evolution

For more details view the page of the group of Jean-Claude Walser

For Master thesis projects contact jean-claude.walser-at-unibas.ch or click here.

Figure: HipHop localization on mre11-mutant telomeres.