Georg Hausner
Fungi and Mitochondria
LATEST PROJECTS
Project | Comparative mitogenomics and intron landscapes pus intron encoded homing endonucleases
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Mobile introns (group I and group II type introns) and homing endonucleases comprise a significant segment of many fungal mitochondrial genomes. We are interested in the evolutionary dynamics of mobile introns and their encoded open reading frames such as homing endonucleases.
Project | Mobile introns along with complex and "nested" introns.
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We study mitochondrial genomes in order to discover novel introns, in particular introns that have acquired several open reading frames or introns that have been invaded by other introns: nested introns and twintrons. We are curious if mtDNA introns promote mtDNA rearrangements or have any other possible impact on fungal mtDNA evolution.
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Project | "What keeps me up at night?"
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Fungal taxonomy, diversity and evolution.
PLUS: Introns and their role in gene expression, gene (exon) formation, genome rearrangments (mobile introns and recombination) and mitochondrial genomes in fungi, and finally "RNA shuffling" (nested introns and twintrons).
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Mycology: Application of fungi with regards to bio-remediation and fungi as a source of secondary metabolites (such as antimicrobial compounds; collaboration with Dr. Ayush Kumar).
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