Prof. Dr. Korbinian Schneeberger

Our main focus is in the exploitation of genomic biotechnology for the use in crop biology to address real-world problems in genomics-assisted science and breeding using Arabidopsis, potato and fruit trees as scientific systems. This research interest is coming to life in our projects where we study genomic differences, how to find them, how to describe them and how they are relevant to the phenotype. We pioneer single-cell sequencing technologies to understand the controlled (recombination) and uncontrolled (mutations) events that drive genomic diversity, and finally build the basis for all the variation in life.

1. Goel M, Campoy JA, Krause K, Baus LC, Sahu A, Sun H, Walkemeier B, Marek M, Beaudry R, Ruiz D, Huettel B, Schneeberger K (2024) The majority of somatic mutations in fruit trees are layer-specific. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.04.573414.
2. Lian Q, Huettel B, Walkemeier B, Mayjonade B, Lopez-Roques C, Gil L, Roux F, Schneeberger K, Mercier R (2024) A pan-genome of 69 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions reveals a conserved genome structure throughout the global species range. Nat Genet 56(5):982-991. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01715-9.
3. Goel M, Schneeberger K (2022) plotsr: visualizing structural similarities and rearrangements between multiple genomes. Bioinformatics 38(10):2922-2926. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac196.
4. Sun H, Jiao WB, Krause K, Campoy JA, Goel M, Folz-Donahue K, Kukat C, Huettel B, Schneeberger K (2022) Chromosome-scale and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a tetraploid potato cultivar. Nat Genet 54(3):342-348. doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01015-0.
5. Goel M, Sun H, Jiao WB, Schneeberger K (2019) SyRI: finding genomic rearrangements and local sequence differences from whole-genome assemblies. Genome Biol 20(1):277. doi: 10.1186/s13059-019-1911-0.