WALDVOGEL LAB - highlights & trivia

+4...

6/18/2024

...years of desert research!

We are very happy that the CRC1211 has been granted a third phase. Our subproject (B08) will be continued and we are able to proceed our research seeking to understand evolutionary strategies of survival under extreme desert conditions in free-living soil nematodes.
The project again is a collaboration with the worm~lab of Dr. Philipp Schiffer (Uni Cologne) and Dr. Oleksandr Holovachov from the Natural History Museum in Stockholm.

Ruta Fin del Mundo

2/11/2024

Sampling campaign to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

ON(T) ROAD

6/18/2023

Yes we can - sequencing on the road!
Driving home from the field course at the Lower Rhine last week, our ONT MinIon metabarcoding run continued sequencing. Except of slight increases in temperature after 2h on the road with a not working air con in the car, the sequencing ran smoothly and we ended up with a nice data set.
Now we feel prepared to move the on-site sequencing to more extreme environments: Atacama Desert Field School to happen in September 2023!

BioC2

4/20/2023

We are very happy to receive a UoC Forum grant of the Excellent Research Program for our project called:
Priming BioC² - Biodiversity Genomics Center Cologne

This project will interconnect our lab and the worm~lab (AG Schiffer) with the MPI Plant Science, The Regional Computing Center (RRZK) and the West German Genome Center (WGGC) to build a fundament for a strong biodiversity genomic cluster in Cologne.

Atacama

10/19/2022

SYMPOSIUM

6/27/2022

International Symposium on "Reference genomes for biodiversity"
-> hosted by the Institute of Zoology @UniCologne, Germany
-> 5-8 September 2022

Are you interested in species across the tree of life with tricky, fascinating, pan-, polyploid or giant genomes?
Then join us in the beautiful city of Cologne to discuss recent advances and challenges in the field, and how we move forward as a scientific community in Germany and Europe. This symposium brings together leading scientists of all disciplines working on biodiversity genomics.

Registration is open @ http://derga-biodiversity.de/symposium

City cycling

9/1/2021

As a member of the Institute of Zoology (IfZ), the ecogenomics group is proud to join this year's Cologne CITY CYCLING competition. This competition involves completing as many daily journeys as possible in an environmentally-friendly manner using your bike over a 21-day period. Cycling for an impact to change traffic and infrastructure developments in our city.

on air

2/13/2021

Listen to my live radio interview @radioeins. I talk about how we can use genomic data for nature conservation.

the beginning of...

7/2/2020

...the Waldvogel Lab @Institute of Zoology @University of Cologne.

Now it is time to build the Waldvogel Lab. I am very much looking forward to diving into my own research program and performing more exciting ecological genomics reseach! There will also be some job postings soon...

interview

2/4/2020

Last week met the Senckenberg outreach team to talk about how urgently we need to understand how and if biodiversity can respond to climate change. You also want to know how you yourself as a scientist or citizen can contribute to this mission?
Find the full interview here (only German..sorry):
https://www.senckenberg.de/de/themen/thema-genomik-gegen-artensterben/