Diplom in Bioinformatics, University of Jena, Germany (2008) PhD in Biology, University of Sussex (2008-2011) Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Hohenheim, Germany (2011-2013) Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Sheffield (2013-2016) Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Sheffield, APS (2016-present)

I work on different topics of evolutionary biology that are all connected by my passion for knowledge and creativity. In particular I am currently interested in these specific topics:

The imprint of selection in the genome of natural populations Molecular mechanisms of fine scale recombination rate variation Evolutionary proteomics NAD metabolism Theoretical aspects of population genetics The evolution of senescence

Gossmann TI, Saleh D, Schmid MW, Spence MA & Schmid KJ (2016) Transcriptomes of Plant Gametophytes Have a Higher Proportion of Rapidly Evolving and Young Genes than Sporophytes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(7), 1669-1678. View this article in WRRO Laine VN, Gossmann TI, Schachtschneider KM, Garroway CJ, Madsen O, Verhoeven KJF, de Jager V, Megens H-J, Warren WC, Minx P, Crooijmans RPMA, Corcoran P, Adriaensen F, Belda E, Bushuev A, Cichon M, Charmantier A, Dingemanse N, Doligez B, Eeva T, Erikstad KE, Fedorov S, Hau M, Hille S, Hinde C, Kempenaers B, Kerimov A, Krist M, Mand R, Matthysen E, Nager R, Norte C, Orell M, Richner H, Slagsvold T, Tilgar V, Tinbergen J, Torok J, Tschirren B, Yuta T, Sheldon BC, Slate J, Zeng K, van Oers K, Visser ME & Groenen MAM (2016) Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome. Nature Communications, 7, 10474-10474. View this article in WRRO Zhao L, Gossmann TI & Waxman D (2016) A modified Wright–Fisher model that incorporates Ne: A variant of the standard model with increased biological realism and reduced computational complexity. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 393, 218-228. View this article in WRRO Gossmann TI, Santure AW, Sheldon BC, Slate J & Zeng K (2014) Highly Variable Recombinational Landscape Modulates Efficacy of Natural Selection in Birds. Genome Biology and Evolution, 6(8), 2061-2075. View this article in WRRO Gossmann TI & Ziegler M (2014) Sequence divergence and diversity suggests ongoing functional diversification of vertebrate NAD metabolism. DNA Repair, 23, 39-48. View this article in WRRO Gossmann TI, Schmid MW, Grossniklaus U & Schmid KJ (2014) Selection-driven evolution of sex-biased genes is consistent with sexual selection in Arabidopsis thaliana.. Mol Biol Evol, 31(3), 574-583.