Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Andreas Wagner

Research interests
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Publications

Link to research group page

Research interests

Evolutionary innovation and adaptation in genes, genomes, and molecular networks; genetic robustness and evolvability; evolution by gene duplication; cryptic variation; cooperation and innovation in molecular systems; evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements; conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory; systems biology and evolution of regulatory and signaling circuits

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Education and professional positions

2011 Professor, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University Zurich, Switzerland
2007 - present Group Leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2006 - 2010 Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2002 - 2006 Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, USA
2004 - 2005 Visiting Scientist, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
1999 - present External Professor, The Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA
1998 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, USA
1996 - 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA
1996 Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
1995 - 1996 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Germany
1991 - 1995 Ph.D., Department of Biology, Yale University, USA
1994 M. Phil., Department of Biology, Yale University, USA
1990 M.Sc., Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Vienna, Austria

Publications

see http://www.ieu.uzh.ch/wagner/publications.html

Andreas Wagner

Andreas Wagner

Full Professor

Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich

Office 27 J 54
Phone: +41 (0)44 635 61 41
email

Recent publication

Espinosa-Soto, C., Wagner, A. (2010) Specialization can drive the evolution of modularity. PloS Computational Biology 6: e1000719.

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