Fabian Oberauer
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Academic History
- since 2024: PhD student at Research Department for Limnology, Mondsee, University of Innsbruck
- 2021–2024: MSc in Evolutionary Systems Biology, University of Vienna and University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
- 2017–2021: BSc in Biology (Microbiology and Genetics), University of Vienna
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Research interests
Evolutionary genomics, genome architecture, and the dynamics of structural variation such as CNVs and satellite DNA. I am particularly interested in how genome structure influences phenotype and adaptation.
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Projects
In my PhD, I investigate genome size evolution in Brachionus asplanchnoidis, a rotifer species with extensive intraspecific variation in genome size driven by non-coding satellite DNA. I use chromosome-level genome assemblies, RNA-seq, and experimental evolution to study the maintenance, expression, and evolutionary relevance of these elements. The project aims to link adaptive traits to effects of both coding and non-coding genomic elements. My PhD is embedded in the FWF project Genome size variation and adaptation in rotifers in the research group of Claus-Peter Stelzer.
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Publications
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