Dr Matthias Heuberger
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Matthias Heuberger is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Biography
Matthias' Postdoctoral Research Fellow is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s PostDoc Mobility scheme.
Previous Positions
2025 to 2026 - Postdoctoral Researcher - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Qualifications
2021 - MSc in Neurobiology - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2019 - BSc in Biology - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Awards & Fellowships
2026 - Swiss National Science Foundation’s PostDoc Mobility scheme
Research
Publications
Selected publications
Transposable element dynamics drive rapid evolution of centromere architecture in the Avena genus
16 June 2026
Genome Biology
Carlotta Marie Wehrkamp, Matthias Heuberger & Thomas Wicker
A reference metagenome sequence of the lichen Cladonia rangiformis
22 October 2025
BMC Biology
Matthias Heuberger, Carlotta Marie Wehrkamp, Alina Pfammatter, Manuel Poretti, Johannes Peter Graf, Aline Herger, Jonatan Isaksson, Edith Schlagenhauf, Rosmarie Honegger, Thomas Wicker & Alexandros G Sotiropoulos
Analysis of a global wheat panel reveals a highly diverse introgression landscape and provides evidence for inter-homoeologue chromosomal recombination
28 September 2024
Theoretical and Applied Genetics
Matthias Heuberger, Zoe Bernasconi, Mahmoud Said, Esther Jung, Gerhard Herren, Victoria Widrig, Hana Šimková, Beat Keller, Javier Sánchez-Martín & Thomas Wicker
Evolution of Einkorn wheat centromeres is driven by the mutualistic interplay of two LTR retrotransposons
5 August 2024
Mobile DNA
Matthias Heuberger, Dal-Hoe Koo, Hanin Ibrahim Ahmed, Vijay K. Tiwari, Michael Abrouk, Jesse Poland, Simon G. Krattinger & Thomas Wicker
Einkorn genomics sheds light on history of the oldest domesticated wheat
2 August 2023
Nature
Hanin Ibrahim Ahmed, Matthias Heuberger, Adam Schoen, Dal-Hoe Koo, Jesus Quiroz-Chavez, Laxman Adhikari, John Raupp, Stéphane Cauet, Nathalie Rodde, Charlotte Cravero, Caroline Callot, Gerard R Lazo, Nagarajan Kathiresan, Parva K Sharma, Ian Moot & et al