Work address
Private address
Friedrich Schiller University
Department of Genetics
Philosophenweg 12
07743 Jena/Germany
Okenstrasse 18
07745 Jena/Germany eMail
Phone lydia.gramzow@uni-jena.de
+49 3641 949 560
+49 151 24200564
Birth date and place October 26, 1981, Prenzlau/Germany
Nationality German
2011
2007
2001
Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to PhD), Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Specialization: Bioinformatics
Dissertation: “Molecular Evolution of MADS-box genes”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günter Theißen
German “Diplom” (equivalent to Master), Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Specialization: Bioinformatics
Thesis at the Department of Genetics at the University of Melbourne, Australia:
“Evolution of Cytochrome P450 genes in twelve Drosophila species”
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Robin
Supported by a scholarship from the „German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)“
German “Abitur”, Städtisches Gymnasium Prenzlau
Since May 2011
2007 – 2011
2006
2005 – 2006
2004 – 2005
Postdoc at the Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University of
Jena , Germany
Projects: Phylogenomics of MADS-box genes
Spliced plant microRNAs
Postgraduate student at the Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller
University of Jena , Germany
Project: Molecular evolution of MADS-box genes
Student assistant in the Biocomputing group, Fritz Lipmann Institute in
Jena , Germany
Project: Prediction of horizontal gene transfer
Student assistant in the Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller
University of Jena , Germany
Project: Prediction of alternative splicing
Student assistant at the Plant Biotechnology Centre in Melbourne ,
Australia
Project: Evaluation of simple sequence repeats in strawberry

2003 – 2004
2003
Student assistant at the Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller
University of Jena , Germany
Project: Prediction of protein-protein interactions
Student assistant at Clondiag in Jena , Germany
Project: Analysis of microarray data
2006 – 2007
2004
University of Melbourne, Australia
Diplomarbeit (equivalent to Master’s thesis) in the Department of Genetics
Supported by a scholarship from the „German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD)“
LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
Two semesters of Bioinformatics as part of a study abroad program
Supported by a scholarship from the „German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD)“
Nystedt B et al . The Norway spruce genome sequence and conifer genome evolution . Nature.
2013; 497:579-84.
Yang X, Wu F, Lin X, Du X, Chong K, Gramzow L, Schilling S, Becker A, Theißen G, Meng Z.
Live and let die - the B sister
MADS-box gene OsMADS29 controls the degeneration of cells in maternal tissues during seed development of rice (Oryza sativa) . PLoS One. 2012; 7:e51435.
Gramzow L, Barker E, Schulz C, Ambrose B, Ashton N, Theißen G, Litt A. Selaginella Genome
Analysis - Entering the "Homoplasy Heaven" of the MADS World.
Front Plant Sci. 2012;
3:214.
Gimpel M, Preis H, Barth E, Gramzow L, Brantl S. SR1--a small RNA with two remarkably conserved functions . Nucleic Acids Res. 2012; 40:11659-72.
Banks JA et al . The Selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants . Science. 2011; 332:960-3.
Thieme CJ, Gramzow L, Lobbes D, Theissen G. SplamiR--prediction of spliced miRNAs in plants . Bioinformatics. 2011;27:1215-23.
Erdmann R, Gramzow L, Melzer R, Theissen G, Becker A. GORDITA (AGL63) is a young paralog of the Arabidopsis thaliana B sister
MADS box gene ABS (TT16) that has undergone neofunctionalization . Plant J. 2010;63:914-24.
Gramzow L, Theissen G. A hitchhiker's guide to the MADS world of plants . Genome Biol.
2010; 11:214.

Gramzow L, Ritz MS, Theissen G. On the origin of MADS-domain transcription factors .
Trends Genet. 2010; 26:149-53.
Sztal T, Chung H, Gramzow L, Daborn PJ, Batterham P, Robin C. Two independent duplications forming the Cyp307a genes in Drosophila . Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2007;
37:1044-53.