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Nidal Karagic


Department of Biology
Building M, Room M820
University of Konstanz
Universitätsstraße 10
78457 Konstanz
Tel: +49 (0) 7531 88 4304

E-mail: nidal.karagic@uni-konstanz.de


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Education:
  • 2018-present: PhD student in Evolutionary Biology, Research group of Prof. Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz, Germany
  • 2015 - 2018: Master of Science in Biology at the University Konstanz, Germany
  • 2012 - 2015: Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University Konstanz, Germany


Awards and Grants:
  •  2018, International Max-Planck Research School Student Grant (18203PG): "Key innovations in cichlids: Determination of the transcriptional mechanisms underlying the fusion of lower pharyngeal jaws". 3000€

Conference presentations:
  •  111th Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Greifswald, Germany, September 2018. Karagic N, Torres-Dowdall J, Härer A and Meyer A: "How ontogeny and plasticity contribute to adaptation: Changes in the visual system of Nicaraguan Midas cichlids"
  • Evolution 2019, Providence, RI, USA, June 2019. Karagic N, Schneider R, Meyer A & Hulsey CD: "Exploiting serial homology: Novel genes involved in tooth development and differentiation in cichlid fishes".  www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNnTTwNzQgE

Invited Talks:
  •  Cichlid Science Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2017. Karagic N, Torres-Dowdall J, Härer A and Meyer A: "Consequences of dark-rearing on opsin gene expression and visual sensitivity in a Nicaraguan Midas cichlid"
  • Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, TX, USA, January 2020. Karagic N, Meyer A and Hulsey CD: "Plasticity of vertebrate dentition"


Society Memberships:
  • Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
  • Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

​Publications:

8. Torres-Dowdall J, Karagic N, Härer A & Meyer A (2021). Diversity in visual sensitivity across Neotropical cichlid fishes via differential expression and intraretinal variation of opsin genes. Molecular Ecology, mec.15855, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15855

7. Karagic N, Schneider RF, Meyer A, and Hulsey CD (2020). A genomic cluster with novel and conserved genes is associated with cichlid dental developmental convergence. Molecular Biology and Evolution, msaa153, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa153.

6. Karagic N, Meyer A, and Hulsey CD (2020). Phenotypic plasticity in vertebrate dentitions. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icaa077, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa077

5. Hulsey CD, ​Cohen KE, Johanson Z, Karagic N, Meyer A, Miller CT, Sadier A, Summers AP, and Fraser GJ (2020). Grand challenges in comparative tooth biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icaa038, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa038

4. Härer A, Karagic N, Meyer A and Torres-Dowdall J (2019). Reverting ontogeny: rapid phenotypic plasticity of color vision in cichlid fish. Royal Society Open Science, DOI:  10.1098/rsos.190841

3. Torres-Dowdall J, Karagic N, Plath M and Riesch R (2018). Evolution in caves: selection from darkness causes spinal deformities in teleost fishes. Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0197

2. Karagic N, Härer A, Meyer A and Torres-Dowdall J (2018). Heterochronic opsin expression due to early light deprivation results in drastically shifted visual sensitivity in a cichlid fish: Possible role of thyroid hormone signaling". Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22806

1. Torres-Dowdall J, Pierotti MER, Härer A, Karagic N, Woltering J, Henning F, Elmer KR and Meyer A (2017). Rapid and parallel adaptive evolution of the visual system of Neotropical Midas cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(10): 2469-2485.






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