I am a bioinformatician focusing on horizontal gene transfer and bacterial pangenomes. I completed my PhD in the Plant Pathogen Coevolution group at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen, where I studied mobile genetic elements in two contexts: bacterial intraspecies interactions and recent plant disease pandemics caused by the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex in South America and Southeast Asia. I took part in every stage of outbreak investigation, from field sampling of diseased plants in agricultural and forest environments, through bacterial culturing, DNA extraction and library preparation, to sequencing and downstream data analysis.

Alongside my research, I have a longstanding fascination with human history, particularly the Bronze Age collapse. This led me to move into microbial archaeogenomics, a field new to me, for my postdoctoral work. My goal is to apply pangenome analysis pipelines to ancient genomes of highly recombining, mobile-element-rich bacteria in order to identify genomic changes associated with historical pandemics.

Office:
S516, Hölderlinstraße 12
72074 Tübingen, Germany
Phone: 75651

                                                                                                                                                               
daria.evseevaspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de