Moritz Otto
Research
PhD student in project B6 of the CRC 1211 - Earth Evolution at the dry limit with focus on stochastic and analytical modelling of population genetic dynamics in sub-structured populations. In particular, I analyze and develop models that describe the evolution of multicopy gene families.
Vita
since 2020 PhD student with T. Wiehe at University of Cologne / Institute for Genetics
2020 Master of Science Mathematics at University of Cologne
- Master thesis: 'A local time isomorphism theorem of the vertex reinforced jump process random interlacement', supervised by A. Drewitz
2018-2020 Researcher with T. Wiehe at University of Cologne / Institute for Genetics
2017 Bachelor of Science Mathematics at University of Bonn
- Bachelor thesis: 'Random tiling of the Aztec Diamond and the GUE minor process', supervised by P. Ferrari
2015-2019 Lecture assistant at University of Bonn and University of Cologne
Conference presentations
2019 Poster: Probabilistic Modeling In Genomics in Aussois (France)
2022 Speaker: Mathematical And Computational Evolutionary Biology in Chateau d'Oex (Switzerland)
2022 Speaker: Annual SPP 1590 Colloquium in Bielefeld (Germany)
Publications
Otto M, Zheng Y, Wiehe T (2022)
Recombination, selection and the evolution of tandem gene arrays
Genetics