Prof. Dr. Christoph Bleidorn

Research interests:

Evolution of arthropod-endosymbiont relationships
Annelid evolution
Evolution of the venom system in glycerid annelids

Short CV

Since 2017: Professor and head of the department “Animal Evolution and Biodiversity” at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany)
2016-2017: Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
2015: Habilitation in Zoology at the University of Leipzig (Germany)
2009-2016: Assistant Professor (Akademischer Assistent) at the University of Leipzig (Germany), in the lab of Prof. Dr. M. Schlegel (Molecular Evolution and Systematics of Animals)
2007-2009: Independent Researcher (Postdoc) funded by a DFG-grant (own position) at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in the lab of Prof. Dr. R. Tiedemann (Evolutionary Biology/Systematic Zoology)
2005-2007: Postdoc at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in the lab of Prof. Dr. R. Tiedemann (Evolutionary Biology/Systematic Zoology)
2004: PhD-thesis at the Free University of Berlin (Germany): ”Phylogenetic relationships of sedentary polychaetes (Annelida) inferred from molecular data“


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Selected publications:

• Bleidorn, C. (2017) Phylogenomics. An introduction. Springer, Berlin, 222 pp.
• Helm, C., Karl, A., Beckers, P., Kaul-Strehlow, S., Ulbricht, E., Kourtesis, I., Kurth, H., Hausen, H., Bartolomaeus, T., Reichenbach, A., Bleidorn, C. (2017) Early evolution of radial glial cells in Bilateria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284, 20170743.
• Richter, S., Helm, C., Meunier, F.A., Hering, L., Campbell, L.I., Drukewitz, S.H., Undheim, E.A.B., Jenner, R.A., Schiavo, G., Bleidorn, C. (2017) Comparative analyses of glycerotoxin expression unveil a novel structural organization of the bloodworm venom system. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17, 64.
• Gerth, M., Bleidorn, C. (2016) Comparative genomics provides a timeframe for Wolbachia evolution and exposes a recent biotin synthesis operon transfer. Nature Microbiology DOI: 10.1038/NMICROBIOL.2016.241
• Weigert, A., Bleidorn, C. (2016) Current status of annelid phylogeny. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 16, 345-362.
• Aguado, M.T., Glasby, C.J., Schroeder, P.C., Weigert, A., Bleidorn, C. (2015) The making of a branching annelid: an analysis of complete mitochondrial genome and ribosomal data of Ramisyllis multicaudata. Scientific Reports 5: 12072.
• Struck, T.H., Golombek, A., Weigert, A., Franke, F.A., Westheide, W., Purschke, G., Bleidorn, C., Halanych, K.M. (2015) The evolution of annelids reveals two adaptive routes to the interstitial realm. Current Biology 25: 1993-1999.
• Gerth, M., Gansauge, M.T., Weigert, A., Bleidorn, C. (2014). Phylogenomic analyses uncover origin and spread of the Wolbachia pandemic. Nature Communications 5: 5117.
• Gerth, M., Röthe, J., Bleidorn, C. (2013) Tracing horizontal Wolbachia movements among bees (Anthophila): a combined approach using MLST data and host phylogeny. Molecular Ecology 22: 6149-6162.
• Struck, T.H., Paul, C., Hill, N., Hartmann, S., Hösel, C., Kube, M., Lieb, B., Meyer, A., Tiedemann, R., Purschke, G., Bleidorn, C. (2011) Phylogenomic analyses unravel annelid evolution. Nature 471: 95-98.