Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Bechteler
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Peter Müller
Fortstr. 7, 76829 Landau
Gebäude I
, Raum 3.29
, 2. OG
76829 Landau
Tel.: +49 6341 +49 (0)6341 280-31xxx
Fax: +49 6341 +49 6341
E-Mail: peter.mueller@rptu.de
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Research interests and involved projects
Research interests
- Molecular phylogenetics/-genomics
- Land plant evolution
- Bryophyte diversity
- Ecological transcriptomics
- Plant adaptation to aird habitats
My current research focus in on 1) genetic mechanisms underlying the adaptation of plants to arid desert environments and 2) the evolution and ecology of the epiphytic lifestyle in non-vascular land plants, i.e., bryophytes. Past research includes the lichen symbiosis and photobiont diversity.
Funded research projects
- PI in the DFG funded CRC1211 B07: Desert transcriptomics: assessing the genetic basis of adaptation to aridity in desert dwellers https://sfb1211.uni-koeln.de/index.php/projects/cluster-b/project-b7?subprojectID=27
- Associated researcher in the DFG funded CRC1211 B01: Biogeographic history of plant communities https://sfb1211.uni-koeln.de/index.php/projects/cluster-b/project-b1?subprojectID=21
- Associated researcher in the BMBF funded FRAMe: Farmer Resilience and Melon Crop Diversity in southern Africa https://www.nees.uni-bonn.de/news/frame https://sfb1211.uni-koeln.de/index.php/news/53-news/not-main-page/216-crops-for-the-desert
Publications
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=YlgfnXUAAAAJ&hl=de
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Bechteler
Selected publications:
Bechteler J*, Peñaloza-Bojacá G*, Bell D, Burleigh G*, McDaniel S, Davis C, Sessa E, Bippus A, Cargill DC, Chantanoarrapint S, Draper I, Endara L, Forrest LL, Garilleti R, Graham SW, Huttunen S, Jauregui Lazo J, Francisco L, Larraín J, Lewis L, Long D, Quandt D, Renzaglia K, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Lee GE, Sierra Pinilla A, von Konrat M, Zartman C, Goffinet B*, Villarreal A. JC* (2023) Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene tree incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification. American Journal of Botany, e16249. (* equal contribution) https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16249
Bechteler J, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Glenny D, Cargill DC, Maul K, Schütz N, von Konrat M, Quandt D, Nebel M (2021) The evolution and biogeographic history of epiphytic thalloid liverworts. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 165, 1055-7903. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.YMPEV.2021.107298
Lee GE, Condamine FL, Bechteler J, Pérez-Escobar OA, Scheben A, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Pócs T, Heinrichs J (2020) An ancient tropical origin, dispersals via land bridges and Miocene diversification explain the subcosmopolitan disjunctions of the liverwort genus Lejeunea. Scientific Reports 10, 14123. https://doi.org/10.1038/S41598-020-71039-1
Schmidt A, Regalado L, Weststrand S, Korall P, Sadowski E-M, Schneider H, Jansen E, Bechteler J, Krings M, Müller P, Wang B, Wang X, Rikkinen J, Seyfullah L (2020) Selaginella was hyperdiverse already in the Cretaceous. New Phytologist 228, 1176-1182. https://doi.org/10.1111/NPH.16600
Sousa A, Bechteler J, Temsch E, Renner SS (2020) Different from tracheophytes, liverworts commonly have mixed 35S and 5S arrays. Annals of Botany 125, 1057-1064. https://doi.org/10.1093/AOB/MCAA027
Beck A*, Bechteler J*, Casanova-Katny A, Dzhilyanova I (2019) The pioneer lichen Placopsis in maritime Antarctica: Genetic diversity of their mycobionts and green algal symbionts, and their correlation with deglaciation time. Symbiosis 79, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/S13199-019-00624-4 *equal contribution
Bechteler J, Schmidt AR, Renner MAM, Wang B, Pérez-Escobar OA, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Feldberg K, Heinrichs J (2017) A Burmese amber fossil of Radula (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida) provides insights into the Cretaceous evolution of epiphytic lineages of leafy liverworts. Fossil Record 20, 201-213. https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-20-201-2017
Bechteler J, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Lee GE, Feldberg K, Perez Escobar OA, Pócs T, Peralta DF, Renner MAM, Heinrichs J (2017) Geographical structure, narrow species ranges and Cenozoic diversification in a pantropical clade of epiphyllous leafy liverworts. Ecology and Evolution 7, 638-653. https://doi.org/10.1002/ECE3.2656
Scheben A, Bechteler J, Lee GE, Pócs T, Schäfer‐Verwimp A, Heinrichs J (2016) Multiple transoceanic dispersals and geographical structure in the pantropical leafy liverwort Ceratolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Porellales). Journal of Biogeography 43, 1739-1749. https://doi.org/10.1111/JBI.12779
Bechteler J, Lee GE, Schäfer-Verwimp A, Pócs T, Peralta DF, Renner MAM, Schneider H, Heinrichs J (2016) Towards a monophyletic classification of Lejeuneaceae IV: reinstatement of Allorgella, transfer of Microlejeunea aphanella to Vitalianthus and refinements of the subtribal classification. Plant Systematics and Evolution 302,187-201. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00606-015-1252-8
Vita
| Since 2023 | Professor (W1ttW2) for Plant Biodiversity and Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) |
| 2022 - 2023 | Substitution of Professorship for Plant Biodiversity and Evolution (Prof. Dr. Dietmar Quandt, 6 months), University of Bonn |
| Since 2020 | Principal Investigator (PI) in DFG CRC1211 B07, Project on evolutionary and ecological transcriptomics/genomics of vascular plants from the Atacama and Namib Deserts |
| 2018 - 2023 | Postdoctoral research and teaching assistant, group of Prof. Dr. Dietmar Quandt, University of Bonn |
| 2014 - 2018 | Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biology, University of Munich (LMU) |
| 2016 - 2018 | Research assistant, group of Prof. Dr. Jochen Heinrichs and Prof. Dr. Susanne Renner, University of Munich (LMU) |
| 2014 - 2015 | Research assistant, group of PD Dr. Andreas Beck, Botanische Staatssammlung München |
| 2013 | First State Exam: Biology, Chemistry, Educational Sciences (Gymnasium), University of Munich (LMU) |