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Katja Nowick performed doctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Svante Pääbo’s lab, focusing on transcriptome evolution in primates and the functional characterization of the FOXP2 gene. Following her doctorate, she joined Dr. Lisa Stubbs' lab at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for postdoctoral research in 2006, investigating the evolution of zinc finger transcription factors in primates. In 2008, her lab relocated to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she continued her research. In 2010, Dr. Nowick returned to Germany to join the department of Dr. Hans Lehrach at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, where she worked on the analysis of RUNX1 target genes and allelic differences in human ZNF genes. She received the Advanced Postdoc award from the Volkswagen Foundation, which supports her research group at the University of Leipzig. Furthermore, Dr. Nowick serves as an editor for the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE).
Freie Universität Berlin • Berlin, Germany
Teaching and research at the Institute of Biology, focusing on zoology.
Administered by the Department of Political and Social Sciences.