Thomas D'Souza

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Name

Thomas D'Souza

Phone

+49 7071 29 74842

Fax

+49 7071 29 5634

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Date of Birth

19.07.1975

University Tuebingen
Faculty for Biology
Institute for Evolution and Ecology
Animal Evolutionary Ecology
Auf der Morgenstelle 28
D-72076 Tübingen

Research Interests

  • Evolution and maintenance of sex
  • Evolutionary ecology of parthenogenesis
  • Origin and evolution of polyploidy
  • Theoretical biology
  • Didactics of Evolutionary biology

CV

since 2008

Research Assistant and Programme Coordinator of the educational concept "Tübingen in Evolution, Evolution in Tübingen" funded by the VW-initiative "Curriculum Evolutionsbiologie"

since 2006

Research Assistant at the Department of Animal Evolutionary Ecology, Tübingen

2002-2006

Ph.D. at the Department of Animal Evolutionary Ecology, Tübingen and at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Münster
Thesis: Sex in Asexuals - Mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of occasional sex in parthenogenetic forms of the planarian flatworm Schmidtea polychroa

1996-2002

Study of Biology and Mathematics at the University Münster, Germany
Undergraduate Thesis: Origin of new lineages in a clonal population of the freshwater planarian

Publications

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