Warning: Your browser doesn't support all of the features in this Web site. Please view our accessibility page for more details.

Quick Search [?]WHAT IS THIS?
Searches this and other areas of the Web site as you type. Results appear on this page.
Also searches the entire Web site (with results on a new page) if you press enter or click on 'Go'.

Cornelius Eibner

Curriculum Vitae:

Since 2006: PhD student in the lab of Prof. Wallace Arthur, NUI Galway (Ireland).

2005 – 2006: Diploma thesis in the lab of Dr. Gerrit Begemann, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Konstanz (Germany). Title: "Analysis of the molecular and developmental mechanisms involved in the formation of sexually dimorphic fins in swordtail fish".

2002 – 2006: Advanced study period (Hauptstudium) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (Germany).

1999 – 2002: Basic study period (Grundstudium) at the University of Hamburg (Germany).

Research:

I work on the evolution of animal segmentation. Our working organism is the centipede Strigamia maritima where I address questions about the development of the centipede embryo and the intraspecific variation in segment number in this animal. This variation makes Strigamia maritima a valuable model for evolutionary and developmental analysis.

Publications:

Journal articles:

Eibner C, Pittlik S, Meyer A, Begemann G (2008) An organizer controls the development of the "sword," a sexually selected trait in swordtail fish. Evolution & Development 10, 403-412.

Posters:

Pittlik S, Eibner C, Meyer A, Begemann G (2007) Inductive Signals Coordinate the Development of a Sexually Selected Trait in Swordtail Fish. Poster Presentation at the Meeting of the Gesellschaft fuer Entwicklungsbiologie (GfE), Marburg (Germany).

Eibner C, Meyer A, Begemann G (2006) Ectopic Sword Induction and Developmental Mechanisms Involved in the Formation of Sexually Dimorphic Fins in Swordtail Fish. Poster Presentation at the Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED), Prague (Czech Republik).

Coverage in popular press:

"Darf's ein Schwert mehr sein?" (December 2008: GEO)

"Wunderwaffe V8" (July 6, 2008: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung)

Contact:

Dr. Cornelius Eibner

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Department of Genetics

Philosophenweg 12

D-07743 Germany

Email: corneliusuni-jena.de

Phone: +49 03641-9-49555

Zoology Department
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 492323, Fax: +353 91 750526
E-mail: Zoology Department
This page was last updated Wednesday, December 07, 2011