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Julián Torres-Dowdall
Principal Investigator I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in the causes and consequences of adaptive variation in natural populations. I use a multidisciplinary approach, linking concepts from ecology, animal behavior, molecular biology, and evolutionary biology. Feel free to contact me directly! Email: torresdowdall@nd.edu
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Graduate students
Longterm collaborations
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Jorgelina Torres-Ruiz (co-supervised)
Jorgelina and I work together since 2015. She takes the lead in all our projects. Currently, she is planning a hybrid cross between unicorns and pegasus to determine the genetic basis of wings and horns. I fear her next step will be to insert those genes into someone or something. |
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Alonso Torres-Ruiz (co-supervised)
We collaborate since 2018. Alonso is interested in birds, and his favorite is the peacock. But his true passion are trains and excavators. He is a great team member, keeping a good working environment. If he works long hours, he can be moody. |
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Former students at Uni Konstanz (co-supervised)
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Sina J. Rometsch
Sina and I have a long history working together, since she was a bachelor student, during her master, and now during PhD studies. We collaborated in many different projects, especially in research on anablepid fishes. She has diverse interests in evolutionary biology, but now she is focusing on the evolution of reproductive barriers. This year she published a great review on the topic in cichlid fishes. |
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Femina Prabhukumar
Femina is currently doing her master studies at Uni Konstanz. We are collaborating in a project aimed to understand the molecular networks involved in phenotypic plasticity of the visual system of cichlid fishes. |
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Andreas Härer
Andi did his PhD at Uni Konstanz, where we collaborated on many different projects and published together several papers on the evolution of the visual system of Nicaraguan cichlids. He leaded the work on two papers on the role of plasticity in divergence of the visual system (here and here) and one on the parallel evolution of the visual system across cichlid fish species. He is currently a postdoc at UC San Diego. |
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Nidal Karagic
Nidal and I worked together during his Master's studies at the University of Konstanz. We aimed to understand how evolution works on integrated traits, like the visual system. He took the lead role on a study looking at how darkness affects retinal development and an upcoming paper looking at the role of thyroid hormone on integrated changes in the retina. He is now doing his PhD in Konstanz trying to understand the evolution of trophic traits.
Nidal and I worked together during his Master's studies at the University of Konstanz. We aimed to understand how evolution works on integrated traits, like the visual system. He took the lead role on a study looking at how darkness affects retinal development and an upcoming paper looking at the role of thyroid hormone on integrated changes in the retina. He is now doing his PhD in Konstanz trying to understand the evolution of trophic traits.
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Jimena Golcher-Benavides
Jimena finished her master thesis at Uni Konstanz in 2015. During her time here we collaborated in a cool project using wax models of fish to understand how prey coloration affects predation risk. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lees McRae College. |
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Alena Kress
Alena did her bachelor thesis in our lab. Her project aimed at determining if polyandry correlated with reproductive effort in the livebearing fish Jenynsia lineata. She also created the wikipedia entry for the species! (J. multidentata at that time). She is currently doing her Master thesis on cell biology at a different lab at the University of Konstanz working on the phagocytic receptor CEACAM3. |
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Ann-Katherin Müller
Ann-Katherin did her bachelor in 2015, looking at how stress induced by predator cues affected pituitary gene expression across different livebearing fishes. She obtained a Master degree at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and then moved to industry. |
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