Dr. Nico Fuhrmann

Nico started his PhD project in the research group of Tobias Kaiser in 2017. He investigated the loss of biological clocks in northern populations of non-biting midgets using molecular methods.
Nico studied biology at the University of Leipzig with a strong focus on animal evolution and systematic. In his bachelor thesis he used molecular biological methods to search for a specific toxin in venomous marine Polychaetes. His master thesis had a bioinformatic background, in which he identified various toxins in the transcriptome of robber flies in order to describe their venom composition.