Dr. Ana Catalán

Evolutionary Biology

regulatory evolution, adaptation, transcriptomics - fireflies

Office address:

Großhaderner Straße 2

Room C01.022

82152 Planegg-Martinsried

+49 89 2180 74104

Short CV


2023 - present: Principal investigator Ludwig-Maximilians- University, Munich, Germany
2017 - 2022: Postdoctoral fellow Ludwig-Maximilians- University and University of Uppsala
2019 - 2021: Maternity leave 100%.

2015 - 2017: Postdoctoral fellow, University of California Irvine
2014 -2015: Research and development at Thermo Fisher Scientific, South San Francisco, USA.
2010 -2014: PhD in Evolutionary Biology. Ludwig- Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
2008 - 2010: Master degree Evolution, Ecology and Systematics. Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
2006 - 2008: Research assistant Center of Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de
Guatemala.
2001 - 2006: Licenciate in Biology, Del Valle University of Guatemala


2026 - 2029: DFG Grant “The genomic basis of extreme sexual dimorphism in fireflies” (renewal),
(Project in Priority Program “Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Adaptations”)
2023 - 2026: DFG Grant “The genomic basis of extreme sexual dimorphism in fireflies”, (Project in Priority Program “Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Adaptations”)
2022: Ramón and Cajal “Genomes and transcriptomic evolution in fireflies”.

2020 - 2023: DFG Grant “New approaches for species delimitation from genome data with examples to two widespread fireflies (Lamprohiza splendidula and Photinus pyralis) flies” (renewal), (Project in Priority Program “Taxon-omics”)
2020: Co-PI Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (SVSN). “Population genomics in Lampyris noctiluca”

An updated overview of my publications can be found here