Andreas Hejnol

Andreas Hejnol is research group leader at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology in Bergen, Norway. After obtaining his PhD in Comparative Zoology from the Free University Berlin, Germany in 2002 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ralf Schnabel in Braunschweig and at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory in the lab of Mark Q. Martindale in Hawaii. He started his research group “Comparative Developmental Biology” at the Sars Centre in 2009.

His current research interest on descriptive, experimental molecular developmental biology of a broad range of invertebrates and includes comparative genomic approaches and phylogenomics. The main research goal is to understand the evolutionary origin and diversification of animal body plans.

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