Predictability in Evolution

Collaborative Research Center 1310

Our Mission

Can we predict pathways and outcomes of future evolutionary processes? We work on this question in fast-evolving systems: microbial populations in the laboratory, viruses and immune repertoires, and cancer cell populations. We build high-throughput experiments and models to predict the evolution of drug resistance and immune escape in pathogens, and of the immune answer in their hosts. Applications include the design of antibiotics, of vaccines for influenza and coronavirus, and of therapies for HIV and cancer.

The Collaborative Research Center is funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and was established in January 2018.

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Upcoming events

Delbrück Lecture Wed, 30.10.2024 | 17:00 Alejandro Couce Universidad Politécnica de Madrid The evolution of fitness effects during long-term evolution of bacteria [pdf]
Delbrück Lecture Wed, 13.11.2024 | 17:00 Tamás Korcsmáros Imperial College London Mapping host-microbe interactions in health and disease with network biology tools [pdf]
Delbrück Lecture Wed, 20.11.2024 | 17:00 Denise Kühnert MPI of Geoanthropology Understanding the evolution and epidemiology of modern and ancient infectious disease agents using phylogenomics and machine learning [pdf]
Cologne Evolution Colloquium Thu, 21.11.2024 | 17:00 Christian Frezza CECAD The chronology and tissue specificity of FH-deficient cancer [pdf]
Delbrück Lecture Wed, 27.11.2024 | 17:00 Susanna Manrubia Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid tba [pdf]


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