Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Arne Traulsen

Vita

Education/Training

2002-2005
Studies in Biology, Bielefeld University and Cambridge University, UK

1998 – 2000
Dr. rer nat in theoretical physics at Kiel University (summa cum laude)

1996 – 2002
Studies in Geophysics and Physics in Kiel, Leipzig and Göteborg


Research Experience/Academic Appointments

Since 2018
Honorary Professor at Kiel University

Since 2014
Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön

Since 2012
Honorary Professor for Mathematical Biology, Lübeck University

2010 – 2014
Tenured Group Leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön (W2)

2007 – 2010
Emmy-Noether Group Leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön

2005 – 2007
PostDoc at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University, USA (mathematical biology)


Important Scientific Prizes/Functions

2012
Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics, German Physical Society

2008 – 2013
Emmy-Noether Fellowship of the DFG

2005 – 2007
PostDoc scholarship of the Leopoldina

2002 – 2005
PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Associated Research Groups

Prof. Dr. Arne Traulsen
Publications

Publications

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2023
A4

Inferring interactions from microbiome data

Inferring interactions from microbiome data
Román Zapién-Campos, Florence Bansept, Arne Traulsen
2023
A1
A4
INF

Gut-associated functions are favored during microbiome assembly across C. elegans life

Zimmermann J*, Piecyk A*, Sieber M, Petersen C, Johnke J, Moitinho-Silva L, Künzel S, Bluhm L, Traulsen A, Kaleta C, Schulenburg H (2023) Gut-associated functions are favored during microbiome assembly across C. elegans life. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2023.03.25.534195. *Shared first authorship.

2023
A4
Z3

Bacterial c-di-GMP has a key role in establishing host-microbe symbiosis

Obeng N, Czerwinski A, Schütz D, Michels J, Leipert J, Bansept F, García García MJ, Schultheiß T, Kemlein M, Fuß J, Tholey A, Traulsen A, Sondermann H, Schulenburg H (2023) Bacterial c-di-GMP has a key role in establishing host-microbe symbiosis. Nature Microbiology doi: 10.1038/s41564-023-01468-x.

2022
A4

The effect of microbial selection on the occurrence-abundance patterns of microbiomes

Zapien-Campos, R., Sieber, M., and Traulsen, A. (2022) Journal of the Royal Society Interface. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0717

2021
A4

Modeling host-associating microbes under selection.

Bansept F, Obeng N, Schulenburg H, Traulsen A (2021) ISME J. 15(12):3648-3656. doi:10.1038/s41396-021-01039-0

2021
A4

Evolution of microbiota–host associations: the microbe’s perspective

Obeng N, Bansept F, Sieber M, Traulsen A, Schulenburg H (2021) Trends in Microbiol. 29(9):779-787. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2021.02.005

2021
A4

On the evolutionary origins of host–microbe associations.

Sieber M, Traulsen A, Schulenburg H, Douglas AE (2021) PNAS. 10.1073/pnas.2016487118

2020
A4

Stochastic colonization of hosts with a finite lifespan can drive individual host microbes out of equilibrium

Zapien-Campos R, Sieber M, Traulsen A (2020) PLoS Comput Biol. 16(11): e1008392. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008392

2019
A2
A4
B1
B2

Neutrality in the metaorganism

Sieber M, Pita L, Weiland-Bräuer N, Dirksen P, Wang J, Mortzfeld B, Franzenburg S, Schmitz RA, Baines JF, Fraune S, Hentschel U, Schulenburg H, Bosch TCG, Traulsen A (2019) PLoS Biol., DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000298

2017
A4
B1
C1
Z1

Temperate phages as self-replicating weapons in bacterial competition.

Li XY, Lachnit T, Fraune S, Bosch T C G, Traulsen A, Sieber M (2017); J R Soc Interface, 14(137). doi: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0563

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