Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan de Vries

Junior Professor of Applied Bioinformatics

2011 B.Sc. Biology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
2013 M.Sc. Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2016 Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2016-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Canada
2016-2018 DFG Research Fellow
2019 DFG Return Grant, Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
2019-2024 ERC Starting Grant
Since 2019 Junior Professor (tenure track), Department of Applied Bioinformatics at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen

Major Research Interests

Homepage Department/Research Group

https://streptophytes.com
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/613776.html

Selected Recent Publications

Delaux P-M, Hetherington AJ, Coudert Y, Delwiche C, Dolan L, Dunand C, Gould S, Kenrick P, Li F-W, Philippe H, Rensing SA, Rich M, Strullu-Derrien C, de Vries J. Reconstructing trait evolution in plant evo–devo studies. Curr Biol 29: R1105–R1121 (2019).

Nishiyama T, Sakayama H, de Vries J, [56 co-authors], Rensing SA. The Chara genome: secondary complexity and implications for plant terrestrialization. Cell 174: 448–464. (2018)

de Vries J, Curtis BA, Gould SB, Archibald JM: Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115: E3471-E3480. (2018)

de Vries J, Archibald JM: Plant evolution: landmarks on the path to terrestrial life. New Phytol 217: 1428–1434. (2018)

de Vries J, Gould SB: The monoplastidic bottleneck in algae and plant evolution. J Cell Sci 131: jcs203414. (2018)

de Vries J, de Vries S, Slamovits CH, Rose LE, Archibald JM: How embryophytic is the biosynthesis of phenylpropanoids and their derivatives in streptophyte algae? Plant Cell Physiol 58: 934-945. (2017)