Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Biol. Matthias Wolf

Lecturer (Akademischer Rat)
Department of Bioinformatics
Biocenter, University of Würzburg
Am Hubland
D-97074 Würzburg
Germany

matthias.wolf (at) biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

My research in evolutionary biology and in the systematics of animals and plants focuses on the meeting points of phylogenetics and bioinformatics. Further keywords are molecular systematics, biodiversity, morphology and taxonomy, as well as biophilosophy. Focussing on alignments and RNA secondary structures (especially of the internal transcribed spacer 2 [ITS2]) as well as on co-developing computer tools inferring phylogenies, I am mainly interested in the phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of protists (protozoa and algae), and of invertebrate Metazoa. However, I am working on phylogenetic relationships throughout the tree of life, i.e., on the phylogeny and the evolution of prokaryotes, protists, and Metazoa, as well as on the phylogeny and the evolution of fungi and higher plants, always connecting organismal- with molecular biology, as well as lab- and field work with computational biology.