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Dr. Lukas Schrader

Current affiliations

Professorship for Molecular Evolutionary Biology (Prof. Gadau)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

adaptation genomics, population genomics, myrmecology

Academic Education
2011 - 2015	Promotion (Uni Regensburg)
2005 - 2010	Diplom (Ruhr-Uni Bochum)
Work Experience
2015 - 2017	Post-doc (Københavns Universitet)

Publications

Castes and developmental stages of the harvester ant P. californicus differ in genome-wide and gene specific DNA methylation Tania Chavarria-Pizarro, Mohammed Errbii, Janina Rinke, Lukas Schrader, Jürgen Gadau (2025) In: bioRxiv Research article in digital collection \| Preprint \| accepted / in press (not yet published)
HSP90 as an Evolutionary Capacitor Drives Adaptive Eye Size Reduction via atonal Sayed, Rascha; Şahin, Özge; Errbii, Mohammed; Prüser, Tobias; Schrader, Lukas; Schulz, Nora; Kurtz, Joachim (2025) In: Nature Communications, 16. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-65027-0 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants. Vizueta J; Xiong Z; Ding G; Larsen RS; Ran H; Gao Q; Stiller J; Dai W; Jiang W; Zhao J; Guo C; Zhang X; Zuo D; Zhong W; Schiøtt M; Liu C; Zhang H; Dai X; Andreu I; Shi Y; Tretter S; He D; Gautam S; Li Z; Hickey G; Ivens ABF; Meurville MP; Hita-Garcia F; Kass JM; Guénard B; Moreau C; Paten B; LeBoeuf AC; Economo EP; GAGA Consortium; Chapuisat M; Shik JZ; Ward PS; Heinze J; Schultz TR; Li Q; Dunn RR; Sanders NJ; Liu W; Schrader L; Boomsma JJ; Zhang G (2025) In: Cell, 188(18), 4828.e25-4848.e25. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.030 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Evolutionary genomics of socially polymorphic populations of <i>Pogonomyrmex californicus</i>. Errbii M, Ernst U, Lajmi A, Gadau J, Schrader L (2024) In: BMC Biology, 22. doi:10.1186/s12915-024-01907-z Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Molecular identification of polymorphic transposable elements in populations of the invasive ant <i>Cardiocondyla obscurior</i> van den Bos, Esther; Gadau, Jürgen; Schrader, Lukas (2024) In: Biology Methods & Protocols, bpae050. doi:10.1093/biomethods/bpae050 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published

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Projects

Die Evolution von Genomkompartmentierung in Ameisen der Gattung Cardiocondyla Duration: 01/07/2022 - 30/06/2025 Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme Type of project: Individual project
Transposons als genetische lnnovatoren in der invasiven Ameise Cardiocondyla obscurior Duration: 01/05/2022 - 30/04/2025 Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme Type of project: Individual project
SPP 1819 - Subproject: Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of rapid host adaptation in the aphid parasitoid Aphidius ervi Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2021 \| 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Priority Programme Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted outside University of Münster
SPP 1819 - Subproject: Rapid adaptive change through high recombination rates in eusocial insects Duration: 01/10/2018 - 30/09/2021 \| 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Priority Programme Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted outside University of Münster
The Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA) Duration: since 01/05/2017 Type of project: Own resources project