Curriculum Vitae – Dr.Lydia Gramzow

Personal details

Work address / Friedrich Schiller University
Department of Genetics
Philosophenweg 12
07743 Jena/Germany
Private address / Okenstrasse 18
07745 Jena/Germany
eMail /
Phone / +49 3641 949 560
+49 151 24200564
Birth date and place / October 26, 1981,Prenzlau/Germany
Nationality / German

Education

2011 / Dr.rer. nat. (equivalent to PhD), Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Specialization: Bioinformatics
Dissertation:“Molecular Evolution of MADS-box genes”
Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Günter Theißen
2007 / German “Diplom” (equivalent to Master), Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Specialization: Bioinformatics
Thesis at the Department of Genetics at the University of Melbourne, Australia:“Evolution of Cytochrome P450 genes in twelve Drosophila species”
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Robin
Supported by a scholarship from the „German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)“
2001 / German “Abitur”, Städtisches Gymnasium Prenzlau

Work experience

Since May 2011 / Postdoc at the Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Projects:Phylogenomics of MADS-box genes
Spliced plant microRNAs
2007 – 2011 / Postgraduate student at the Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Project: Molecular evolution of MADS-box genes
2006 / Student assistant in the Biocomputing group, Fritz Lipmann Institute in Jena, Germany
Project: Prediction of horizontal gene transfer
2005 – 2006 / Student assistant in the Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Project: Prediction of alternative splicing
2004 – 2005 / Student assistant at the Plant Biotechnology Centre in Melbourne, Australia
Project: Evaluation of simple sequence repeats in strawberry
2003 – 2004 / Student assistant at the Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Project: Prediction of protein-protein interactions
2003 / Student assistant at Clondiag in Jena, Germany
Project: Analysisofmicroarray data

International experience

2006 – 2007 / University of Melbourne, Australia
Diplomarbeit (equivalent to Master’s thesis) in the Department of Genetics
Supported by a scholarship from the „German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)“
2004 / LaTrobeUniversity in Melbourne, Australia
Two semesters of Bioinformaticsas part of a study abroad program
Supported by a scholarship from the „German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)“

Publications

Nystedt B et al. The Norway spruce genome sequence and conifer genome evolution.Nature.2013; 497:579-84.

Yang X, Wu F, Lin X, Du X, Chong K, Gramzow L, Schilling S, Becker A, Theißen G, Meng Z. Live and let die - the Bsister MADS-box gene OsMADS29 controls the degeneration of cells in maternal tissues during seed development of rice (Oryza sativa). PLoS One. 2012; 7:e51435.

Gramzow L, Barker E, Schulz C, Ambrose B, Ashton N, Theißen G, Litt A. Selaginella Genome Analysis - Entering the "Homoplasy Heaven" of the MADS World. Front Plant Sci. 2012;3:214.

Gimpel M, Preis H, Barth E, Gramzow L, Brantl S. SR1--a small RNA with two remarkably conserved functions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012;40:11659-72.

Banks JA et al. The Selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants. Science.2011;332:960-3.

Thieme CJ, Gramzow L, Lobbes D, Theissen G. SplamiR--prediction of spliced miRNAs in plants. Bioinformatics. 2011;27:1215-23.

Erdmann R, Gramzow L, Melzer R, Theissen G, Becker A. GORDITA (AGL63) is ayoung paralog of the Arabidopsis thaliana Bsister MADS box gene ABS (TT16) thathas undergone neofunctionalization. Plant J. 2010;63:914-24.

Gramzow L, Theissen G. A hitchhiker's guide to the MADS world of plants.Genome Biol. 2010;11:214.

Gramzow L, Ritz MS, Theissen G.On the origin of MADS-domain transcriptionfactors.Trends Genet.2010;26:149-53.

Sztal T, Chung H, Gramzow L, Daborn PJ, Batterham P, Robin C. Two independentduplications forming the Cyp307a genes in Drosophila.Insect BiochemMol Biol.2007;37:1044-53.