The Meyer Lab

We study several fundamental issues in evolutionary biology. In particular, the evolution of biodiversity, and specifically the genesis of genomic, developmental and morphological diversity as well as their evolutionary interconnections, are of interest to us. To this end we study: morphological differentiation and its developmental basis within a phylogenetic framework, genetic differentiation among populations and species, and the evolution of genes and genomes, and the evolution of novel gene functions. In an effort to better understand the origin and maintenance of diversity we mostly use molecular and bioinformatic approaches, to ask how many and what kind of genetic changes accompany morphological differentiation among populations and species.

News

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  • Axel Meyer elected AAAS fellow 2021
  • Axel Meyer again among Germany's 500 most influential public intellectuals according to Cicero Magazin"s List
  • Postdoc Paolo Franchini moved to Sapienza University in Rome for a new PI position
  • Postdoc Julian Torres-Dowdall will start his own lab as assistant professor at Notre Dame University this summer
  • ​​PhD student Sina Rometsch receives prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from Yale University​​

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  • OPEN PHD position (see link below) funded by the Hector Fellow Academy (HFA). If you are interested to join the lab fully funded by the HFA, please contact Prof. Meyer first to discuss project ideas.

Our latest publications
  • 13.1.2022 "Goldentouch" paper published in Nature Communications.
  • 18.8.2021 Seadragon Genome paper is out in Science Advances
  • 29.4.2021 Vertebrate Genome Project paper is out in Nature 
  • 18.01.2021 - Meyer, A., et al. 2021. Giant Lungfish genome elucidates the conquest of land by vertebrates. Nature View PDF
  • 28.10.2020 - Kautt A.F., et al. 2020. Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation. Nature View PDF
  • 09.10.2020 - Real, et al. 2020. The mole genome reveals regulatory rearrangements associated with adaptive intersexuality. Science 370:208-214. View PDF​
  • ​all Meyer lab publications

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