Jannik Möllmann
PhD Student
Curriculum Vitae
| Since March 2022 | PhD Student. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. |
| September 2019 - March 2022 |
M.Sc., Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz Thesis: “Transcriptomics and Comparative Genomics in a Solitary Bee Species” |
| March 2016 - September 2019 |
B.Sc., Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz Thesis: “Prediction of signal transduction pathways by navigation of the multi-layer protein-protein interactome |
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding the effects of climatic warming on pollinators, both in terms of phenotypic plasticity but also in terms of their evolutionary genetic potential. To do this, I apply comparative genomic and population genomic techniques, as well as transcriptomics and lab experiments.
PhD Project
In my PhD, I aim to contribute to the understanding of the adaptive potential of mason bees, an ecologically important group of solitary bees, to future predicted global warming using transcriptomic and genomic methods with a special focus on the vulnerable phase of seasonal diapause.
To this end, I will expose overwintering mason bees (Osmia bicornis and Osmia cornuta) to increased heat stress in laboratory experiments lasting several months and investigate molecular genetic changes via transcriptome and genome sequencing and identify temperature-sensitive genes. Furthermore, I will map the population genetic differences of these two species over an extended geographical area with climatic and phenological variance and analyse which gene loci show signs of recent selection and divergent genetic diversity. A particular focus will be on analysing the loci of the previously identified temperature-sensitive genes of the overwintering experiment to then infer the evolutionary potential of these two wild bee species to adapt to warmer diapause seasons.
Publications
JS Möllmann, TJ Colgan "Genomic architecture and sexually dimorphic expression underlying immunity in the red mason bee, Osmia bicornis." Insect Molecular Biology (2022) https://doi.org/10.1111/imb.12796
SJ Larragy, JS Möllmann, JC Stout, JC Carolan, TJ Colgan "Signatures of adaptation, constraints, and potential redundancy in the canonical immune genes of a key pollinator." Genome Biology and Evolution (2023) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad039
G Alanis-Lobato, JS Möllmann, MH Schaefer, MA Andrade-Navarro "MIPPIE: the mouse integrated protein–protein interaction reference." Database (2022) https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baaa035
Contact
Jannik Möllmann
Room 01.401
Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution
Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15
55128 Mainz
Deutschland