Evolutionary Research in Brassicaceae
Five selected publications
Franzke, A, Lysak, MA, Al-Shehbaz, IA, Koch, MA, Mummenhoff, K (2011) Cabbage family affairs: The evolutionary history of Brassicaceae. Trends in Plant Science 16: 108-116.
COUVREUR TLP, FRANZKE A, AL-SHEHBAZ IA, BAKKER FT, KOCH MA, MUMMENHOFF, K (2010) Molecular phylogenetics, temporal diversification and principles of evolution in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:55-71.
Mandakova, T, Joly, S, Krzywinski, M, Mummenhoff, K Lysak, M. A. (2010) Fast diploidization in close mesopolyploid relatives of Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 22: 2277–2290
Dierschke, T, Mandáková, T, Lysak, M, Mummenhoff, K (2009) A bicontinental origin of polyploid Australian/New Zealand Lepidium species (Brassicaceae): evidence from genomic in situ hybridization (GISH). Annals of Botany 104: 681-688.
Koch, MA, Kiefer, C, Ehrich, D, Vogel, J, Brochmann, C, Mummenhoff, K (2006) Three times out of Asia Minor: the phylogeography of Arabis alpina L. (Brassicaceae). Molecular Ecology 15: 825-839.
Education and scientific career
1975 Abitur Gymnasium Augustinianum Greven / Westfalen
1976 Study of History, Philosophy, Geography and Biology at the University of Bielefeld
and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster
1983 Diploma in Biology (Botany), Münster
1989 Dissertation Osnabrück, 1989: Sippenstrukturen in der Gattung Lepidium L.
(Brassicaceae): Isoelektrische Fokussierungsmuster der Untereinheiten von
Ribulose-1,5- Bisphosphat Carboxylase
1996 Venia Legendi in Botany
1999 Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology of the University of Osnabrück
2002 - 2010 Chairman of the advisory board of the Botanical Garden of the University of
Osnabrück
2002 Assigned to the official Professor`s group
2005 – 2007 Deputy for the chair of Systematic Botany at the University of Osnabrück
2008 Head of the Examination Office of the Biology Department
DFG projects Hu 148/10-1, 10-2, 11-1; Mu 1137/ 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, Mu 1137/ 2-1; Mu 1137/7-1,
7-2 MU 1137/8-1