We (AG Nowick) aim to understand how cognitive traits evolve using genomics and transcriptomics methods and combining it with cell culture experiments using stem cells and brain organoids from primates and biomedical data. We also develop bioinformatics tools.

We (AG Schubert) want to reveal how organisms lacking a nervous system memorize information, with a focus on epigenetic gene regulation. We use computational, genetic, genomic and imaging techniques to address this question with plants and alga as our models.

The BeGenDiv, as a joined research institute of the IZW and FU Berlin, offers a sequencing facility and research in genomics of tropical species among others.