Andreas Wagner
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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 - present | Professor, Department 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 |
Selected Publications
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- Bratulic S., Toll-Riera M., Wagner A. (2017). Mistranslation can enhance fitness through purging of deleterious mutations. Nature Communications, 8:15410. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15410
- Aguilar-Rodríguez J., Payne JL., Wagner A. (2017). A thousand empirical adaptive landscapes and their navigability. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(2):0045. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0045
- Fortuna MA., Zaman L., Ofria C., Wagner A. (2017). The genotype-phenotype map of an evolving digital organism. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(2):e1005414. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005414
- Wagner A. (2017). The white-knight hypothesis, or does the environment limit innovations? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32(2):131-140. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.10.017
- Wagner A. (2017). Information theory, evolutionary innovations and evolvability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 372(1735):0416. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0416