Dr. Peter Arndt - Evolutionary Genomics

1995 Diploma in Physics at Bonn University
1998 PhD in Theoretical Physics at Bonn University
1998 - 2003 PostDoc at Cologne University and UC San Diego
since 2003 Head of the 'Evolutionary Genomics Group' at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Genome Evolution: integrating processes on all length scales, including insertions, deletions and regional
duplications, isochores, dynamics of repetitive elements
Analysis of population related data: Nucleotide and copy number polimorphisms, biases in allel fixation
Phylogeny Reconstruction: reconstructing ancient nucleotide distributions, irreversible models, non-stationary dynamics, coevolution
Models for nucleotide substitutions: including neighbor dependencies, CpG-effect, estimation of substitution patterns along
chromosomes and back in evolutionary time, distinction between mutation and selection, biased gene conversion

LC Francioli et al. (2015)
Genome-wide patterns and properties of de novo mutations in humans.
Nat Genet., 47 (7): 822-6
S Glemin, PF Arndt, PW Messer, D Petrov, N Galtier, L Duret (2015)
Quantification of GC-biased gene conversion in the human genome.
Genome Res., 25 (8): 1215-28
M Sheinman, F Massip, PF Arndt (2015)
Statistical properties of pairwise distances between leaves on a random Yule tree.
PLoS One, 10 (3): e0120206
CF Mugal, PF Arndt, L Holm, H Ellegren (2015)
Evolutionary consequences of DNA methylation on the GC content in vertrebrate genomes.
G3 (Bethesda), 5 (3): 441-7
J Berglund, J Quilez, PF Arndt, MT Webster (2014)
Germline methylation patterns determine the distribution of recombination events in the dog genome.
Genome Biol Evol., 7 (2): 522-30