• Evolutionsbiologie & Populationsgenetik
• Marine Genomik
• Biologische Effekte des Globalen Wandels
• Marine Invasionsbiologie
• Wirt-Parasiten-Interaktionen
  
  
  Modellarten
  • Dorsch  Gadus morhua
  • Riffbildende Korallen und Neseltiere cnidarians
  • Seegras Zostera marina
  • Rippenquallen Ctenophora

• "SeaStore - Diversity Enhancement through Seagrass Restoration", funded by BMBF Mare: N program, coordinator Dr. Maike Paul. LUFI University Hannover, 2020-2023, see www.seegraswiesen.de (in German)

• "Microbiota – host interactions at the base of the metazoan tree",  funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within Collaborative Research Center 1182 Origin and Function of the Metaorganism, Co-PI Ruth Schmitz-Streit, U Kiel,  2020-2023

• “Adaptive asexual evolution in corals, cancer and seagrasses – AdaptAsex“, funded by Human Frontiers of Science Programme (HFSP). Co-PIs Iliana Baums, Penn State Univ, USA; Benjamin Werner, Queen Mary Univ London

  see first key publication: 
  Reusch TBH, Baums IB, Werner B (2021) Evolution via somatic genetic variation in modular species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution online early doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.08.011 

  see press release: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/215-reusch-tree

• “Fisheries induced evolution“, funded by DFG-funded Research Training Group Translational Evolutionary Research TransEvo (coordinator Hinrich Schulenburg, U Kiel); Co-PI Martin Quaas, iDIV, 2020-2023

• "IMMUBASE - Comparative Immunogenomics of basal marine metazoans", funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within Sequencing Initative Programme, Co-PIs Lucia Pita Galan GEOMAR, Ruth Schmitz-Streit, U Kiel, 2019-2022

Kürzlich beendete Projekte
 

• "Seagrass Blue Carbon", funded by Helmholtz-Society Climate Initiative Germany Net Zero 2050, work package 4 natural carbon storage systems,  2019-2021, with postdoctoral researcher Dr. Angela Stevenson
   
• "Microbiota – host interactions at the base of the metazoan tree", funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within Collaborative Research Center 1182 Origin and Function of the Metaorganism - Co-PIs Ruth Schmitz-Streit, U Kiel, 2016-2019
   
• "MARES Multi-method Assessment for Resilient Ecosystem Services and human-nature system integration", funded by EU-BONUS: (coordinator Dr. Maurizio Sajeva, Pellervo Economic Research, Finland), 2018-2020
   
• "BIO-C3 Biodiversity changes-causes, consequences and management implications", funded by European Union /BONUS programme, Coordinator Thorsten Reusch, 13 partners in total, 2014-2017

see key publication:
Reusch TBH, Dierking J, Andersson HC, Bonsdorff E, Carstensen J, Casini M, Czajkowski M, Hasler B, Hinsby K, Hyytiäinen K, Johannesson K, Jomaa S, Jormalainen V, Kuosa H, Kurland S, Laikre L, MacKenzie BR, Margonski P, Melzner F, Oesterwind D, Ojaveer H, Refsgaard JC, Sandström A, Schwarz G, Tonderski K, Winder M, Zandersen M (2018) The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean. Science Advances 4:eaar8195

• Steering Committee Kiel Plant Centre  https://www.plant-center.uni-kiel.de/en/kiel-plant-science-1)  2019 -

• Seit 2017 Mitglied des Lenkungsausschusses der ISOS (Integrated School of Ocean Science) graduate school

• Mitherausgeber von "Marine Biology" und  "Science Advances"
• Koordination von "Evolving Ocean" im Exzellenzcluster Future Ocean
• Lenkungsausschuss Kiel Evolution Centre
• Lenkungsausschuss International Max-Planck School for Evolutionary Biology IMPRS
• Lenkungsausschuss, Helmholtz-Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity Research (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany

Übersicht aller Publikationen
Google scholar profile https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=ux41yIwAAAAJ&hl=en

• Yu L, Khachaturyan M, Matschiner M, Healey A, Bauer D, Cameron B, Cusson M, Emmett Duffy J, Joel Fodrie F, Gill D, Grimwood J, Hori M, Hovel K, Hughes AR, Jahnke M, Jenkins J, Keymanesh K, Kruschel C, Mamidi S, Menning DM, Moksnes P-O, Nakaoka M, Pennacchio C, Reiss K, Rossi F, Ruesink JL, Schultz ST, Talbot S, Unsworth R, Ward DH, Dagan T, Schmutz J, Eisen JA, Stachowicz JJ, Van De Peer Y, Olsen JL, Reusch TBH (2023) Ocean current patterns drive the worldwide colonization of eelgrass (Zostera marina). Nature Plants online early, doi 10.1038/s41477-023-01464-3
  
  See also related research briefing: Reusch TBH, Olsen JL (2023) Reconstructing the worldwide colonization history of the world’s most widespread marine plant. Nature Plants online early doi 10.1038/s41477-023-01465-2

• Jaspers C, Ehrlich M, Pujolar JM, Künzel S, Bayer T, Limborg MT, Lombard F, Browne WE, Stefanova K, Reusch TBH (2021) Invasion genomics uncover contrasting scenarios of genetic diversity in a widespread marine invader. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118: e2116211118 doi 10.1073/pnas.2116211118

• Yu, L., C. Boström, S. Franzenburg, T. Bayer, T. Dagan, and T. B. H. Reusch. 2020. Somatic genetic drift and multilevel selection in a clonal seagrass. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:952–962. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1196-4
  https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/the-evolving-clone"

• Roth O, Solbakken MH, Tørresen OK, Bayer T, Matschiner M, Baalsrud HT, Hoff SNK, Brieuc MSO, D. Haase D, Hanel R, Reusch TBH*, Jentoft S* (2020). Evolution of male pregnancy associated with remodeling of canonical vertebrate immunity in seahorses and pipefishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, online early: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916251117. *equal contrib

• Heckwolf MJ, Meyer BS, Häsler R, Höppner MP, Eizaguirre C, Reusch TBH (2020) Two different epigenetic information channels in wild three-spined sticklebacks are involved in salinity adaptation. Science Advances 6:eaaz1138
   
• Reusch TBH, Dierking J, Andersson HC, Bonsdorff E, Carstensen J, Casini M, Czajkowski M, Hasler B, Hinsby K, Hyytiäinen K, Johannesson K, Jomaa S, Jormalainen V, Kuosa H, Kurland S, Laikre L, MacKenzie BR, Margonski P, Melzner F, Oesterwind D, Ojaveer H, Refsgaard JC, Sandström A, Schwarz G, Tonderski K, Winder M, Zandersen M (2018) The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean. Science Advances 4:eaar8195
   
• Breusing C, Biastoch A, Drews A, Metaxas A, Jollivet D, Vrijenhoek RC, Bayer T, Melzner F, Sayavedra L, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Schilhabel MB, Rosenstiel P, Reusch TBH (2016) Biophysical and population genetic models predict presence of "phantom" stepping stones connecting Mid-Atlantic Ridge vent ecosystems. Current Biology 26:2257–2267
   
• Olsen JL*, Rouzé P, Verhelst B, Lin Y-C, Bayer T, Collén J, Dattolo E, De Paoli E, Dittami S, Maumus F, Michel G, Kersting A, Lauritano C, Lohaus R, Töpel M, Tonon T, Vanneste K, Amirebrahimi M, Brakel J, Boström C, Chovatia M, Grimwood J, Jenkins J, Jüterbock A, Mraz A, Stam WT, Tice H, Bornberg-Bauer E, Green P, Pearson G, Procaccini G, Duarte C, Schmutz J, Reusch TBH*, Van de Peer Y* (2016) The genome of the seagrass Zostera marina reveals angiosperm adaptation to the sea. Nature 530: 331-335 doi: 10.1038/nature16548  *equal contribution (cover story)
   
• Schlüter L, Lohbeck KT, Gutowska MA, Gröger JP, Riebesell U, Reusch TBH (2014) Adaptation of a globally important coccolithophore to ocean warming and acidification. Nature Climate Change 4:1024–1030, doi:10.1038/nclimate2379
   
• Sunday JM, Calosi P, Dupont S, Munday PL, Stillman JH, Reusch TBH (2014) Evolution in an acidifying ocean. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:117-125
   
• Lohbeck, KT, Riebesell U, Reusch TBH (2012) Adaptive evolution of a key phytoplankton species to ocean acidification. Nature Geoscience 5:346-351 [article]
   
• Frommel AY, Maneja R, Lowe D, Malzahn AM, Geffen AJ, Folkvord A, Piatkowski U, Reusch TBH, Clemmesen C (2012) Severe tissue damage in Atlantic cod larvae under increasing ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change 2: 42-46
   
• Franssen SU, Gu J, Bergmann N, Winters G, Klostermeyer UC, Rosenstiel P, Bornberg-Bauer E, Reusch TBH (2011) Transcriptomic resilience to global warming in the seagrass Zostera marina, a marine foundation species. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:19276-19281
   
• Reusch, TBH, A Ehlers, A Hämmerli, B Worm (2005) Ecosystem recovery after climatic extremes enhanced by genotypic diversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102: 2826-2831
   
• Wegner KM, Kalbe M, Kurtz J, Reusch TBH, Milinski M (2003) Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality. Science 301: 1343.
   
• Reusch TBH, Häberli MA, Aeschlimann PB, Milinski M (2001) Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism. Nature 414: 300-302.

• Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe Marine Evolutionary Ecology
• Seit Januar 2012 Leiter des Forschungsbereichs 3  Marine Ökologie
• September 2008 Leiter der Forschungseinheit Marine Evolutionsökologie & Professur für Marine Ökologie am Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel
• 2005 Professur für Evolutionsökologie der Pflanzen an der Westfälischen Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, Institut für Evolution & Biodiversität
• 2002-2005 Heisenberg-Stipendiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft am Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Plön
• 1999-2001 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Plön
• 1997-1999  Marie-Curie-Stipendiat an der Universität Groningen, Niederlande
• 1994-1997  DAAD, dann DFG Forschungsstipendium am Coastal Marine Institute San Diego, USA
• 1994 Promotion am institut für Meereskunde IFM Kiel