Michael T. Monaghan
Müggelseedamm 301, 12587 Berlin / Königin-Luise-Str. 2-4 Gartenhaus, 14195 Berlin
Profile
molecular ecology, evolution, biodiversity, phylogeny / rivers, streams, lakes
Professorship
at Freie Universität Berlin, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute of Biology
since 2018 Professor of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin
2016 Visiting Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
since 2015 Guest Professor, Ehime University, Matsuyama
since 2008 Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader, IGB
2003-08 Research Fellow, Imperial College and Natural History Museum, London
2002 Dr. sc. nat. ETH Zürich
1998-2002 Doctoral student, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
1998 M.S. Biology, Idaho State University
1995 B.S. Natural Resources Management, The Ohio State University
Recent Publications
Warter et al. (2024)
Environmental DNA, hydrochemistry and stable water isotopes as integrative tracers of urban ecohydrology
Water Research 250:121065
Thomé et al. (2023)
Single-cell genomics reveals new Rozellid lineages and supports their sister relationship to Microsporidia
Biology Letters 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0398
Theissinger et al. (2023)
How genomics can help biodiversity conservation
Trends in Genetics 39:545-559
Sukhodolov et al. (2023)
Interactions between diurnal winds and floodplain mosaics control the insect boundary layer in a river corridor
Aquatic Sciences 85:109.
Strassert & Monaghan (2022)
Phylogenomic insights into the early diversification of fungi
Current Biology 32:3628-3635.e3.
Premke et al. (2022)
Large-scale sampling of the freshwater microbiome suggests pollution-driven ecosystem changes
Environmental Pollution 308:119627.
Sire et al. (2022)
Climate-induced forest dieback drives compositional changes in insect communities that are more pronounced for rare species
Communications Biology 5:57.
Maasri et al. (2022)
A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research
Ecology Letters 25:255-263.
Formenti et al. (2022)
The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37:197-202.
Welti et al. (2022)
Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network
Insect Conservation and Diversity 15:168-180.
Heeger et al. (2021)
Evidence for lignocellulose-decomposing enzymes in the genome and transcriptome of the aquatic hyphomycete Clavariopsis aquatica
Journal of Fungi 7:854.
Beng et al. (2021)
Temporal dynamics of freshwater planktonic parasites inferred using a DNA metabarcoding time-series
Parasitology 148:1602-1611.
Rutschmann et al. (2021)
Three mitochondrial genomes of early-winged insects (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae and Leptophlebiidae)
Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 6:2969-2971
Hoffmann et al. (2021)
PriSeT: Efficient de novo primer discovery
Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics Article No.: 2, pp. 1-12.
Rodriguez-Ezpeleta et al. (2021)
Trade-offs between reducing complex terminology and producing accurate interpretations from environmental DNA
Molecular Ecology 30:4601-4605.
Bracamonte et al. (2021)
Encapsulation of Anguillicola crassus reduces the abundance of adult parasite stages in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla)
Journal of Fish Diseases 44:771-782.
van Rees et al. (2021)
Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: recommendations for the new Global Biodiversity Framework from the European experience
Conservation Letters 14:e12771
Jähnig et al. (2021)
Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity
WIREs Water 8:e1506.
Teaching
Freie Universität Berlin
Institute of Biology (Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy)
- 23204 Data Science in Biology (ABV)
- 23306 Experimental and Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology
- 23308 Biotic Interactions in a Changing World
- Project (10 LP)
- Research Project (15 LP)
- Master's Project
Institute of Computer Science (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)
- 23779 Biodiversity and Evolution
- 23780 Environmental Genomics (Practical Seminar)
- 23781 Evolutionary Bioinformatics and NGS Applications (Seminar)
- Research Internship (10 LP)
- Maser's Project