Toni Gossmann

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom

Academician Plant Sciences
Biography

Diplom in Bioinformatics, University of Jena, Germany (2008) PhD in Biology, University of Sussex (2008-2011) Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Hohenheim, Germany (2011-2013) Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Sheffield (2013-2016) Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Sheffield, APS (2016-present)

Research Intrest

The imprint of selection in the genome of natural populations Molecular mechanisms of fine scale recombination rate variation Evolutionary proteomics NAD metabolism Theoretical aspects of population genetics The evolution of senescence

List of Publications
Laine VN, Gossmann TI, Schachtschneider KM, Garroway CJ, Madsen O, Verhoeven KJ, De Jager V, Megens HJ, Warren WC, Minx P, Crooijmans RP. Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome. Nature communications. 2016 Jan 25;7:ncomms10474.
Gossmann TI, Saleh D, Schmid MW, Spence MA, Schmid KJ. Transcriptomes of plant gametophytes have a higher proportion of rapidly evolving and young genes than sporophytes. Molecular biology and evolution. 2016 Mar 8;33(7):1669-78.
Kappei D, Scheibe M, Paszkowski-Rogacz M, Bluhm A, Gossmann TI, Dietz S, Dejung M, Herlyn H, Buchholz F, Mann M, Butter F. Phylointeractomics reconstructs functional evolution of protein binding. Nature Communications. 2017;8.
Shafiey H, Gossmann TI, Waxman D. Evolutionary control: Targeted change of allele frequencies in natural populations using externally directed evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 2017 Apr 21;419:362-74.