Institution
Kiel University
Zoological Institute
Doctoral Candidate
Christoph Giez
Associated Research Groups
Towards understanding an ultimately simple metaorganism: impact of symbiotic microbes and algae on developmental processes of Hydra and their adaption within the host
Animal developmental programs occur within the context of coevolved associations with microbes. Hydra is one of the prime model systems for evolutionary developmental biologists. The fact that symbiotic interactions were discovered to be essential to …