About me
My name is Britta Meyer and I am an evolutionary biologist. My main interest is in the field of (epi)genetic diversity of species and the (epi)genetics of ageing. In my work I apply methods from phylogenetics, molecular evolution, population genetics and recently also epigenetics - i.e. investiagting DNA methylation variabilty from various natural populations. Here I listed some of my professional steps. If you would like to get my full CV, please drop me a mail.
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2007-2008
Diploma thesis
Zoology, University of Hamburg
and the Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, GermanyGenetic variability (MHC and mitochondrial D-Loop) and parasite burden of a neotropical rodent (Euryoryzomys russatus Wagner, 1848) in two fragments of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
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2008
Research Assistant
FTZ, Research and Technology Centre, University of Kiel, Büsum, Germany
Working on research vessels - "Seabirds at Sea" on Baltic and North Sea
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2009-2014
Doctoral thesis
Salzburger Lab, Evolutionary Biology,
University of Basel, Switzerland:
A multi-marker perspective on the evolutionary history of East African cichlid fishes
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2010, 2015 - NOW
Instructor and/or Co-Organizer
Evomics, Molecular Evolution (2010/2015) and/or Population and Speciation Genomics Workshop (2018-NOW), Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
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2010
Co-Director
Organization of Cichlid Science Meeting
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2014-2018
Postdoctoral Researcher
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
(Epi)genomics in Baltic sea populations of the three-spine sticklebacks (BAMBI-Project)
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2018-now
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tern Epigenetics and Blackcap Island Genomics Max-Planck Institute Behavioral Genomics, Plön, Germany and Guest Scientist at Institute of Avian Research
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2018
Award for the project "Epigenetics of Ageing"
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2019
Organizer
Workshop “Causes and Consequences of Inclusive Inheritance" Max-Planck Institute Behavioral Genomics, Plön, Germany
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To be
Continued!
