Curiosity. Concepts. Connections. Commitment.

I seek to understand the mechanisms of adaptation to different environments. In particular, I want to identify the biochemistry, ecology and evolution of these mechanisms, for example by investigating functional networks.

At Graz University of Technology, I am equipping and running a laboratory for long read sequencing. This will allow us to identify large structural variants in the genome, epigenetic modifications and detection of splices variants. Together, this will enable us to increase our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underly diseases, development and adaptation.

• Since November 2020: University Assistant, Lecturer
  
  Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Graz University of Technology, Austria
   
• Since January 2020: Freelance Biologist
  
  SailerChristian.PlantBiologist
   
• 2017 - 2019: Project Manager Population Genomics, SNSF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow
  
  The functional basis of edaphic adaptation to high metal concentrations
  
  Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
   
• 2017: Bioinformatician, Postdoctoral Researcher
  
  Linking environmental, genomic and phenotypic adaptation to study the adaptation of Arabidopsis halleri to metal polluted soils
  
  Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland
   
• 2015 - 2017: Project Manager Population Genomics, SNSF Early Postdoctoral Fellow
  
  The genetic basis of edaphic adaptation to high metal concentrations
  
  John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
  Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA
   
• 2014: Postdoctoral Researcher
  
  Transgenerational phenotypic stability in apomictic hybrids
  
  Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• 2008 - 2013: Ph.D. thesis in Plant Biology
  Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
   
• 2001 – 2008: Diploma student in Molecular Biology
  University of Vienna, Austria
   
• 1996 – 2001: Secondary College for Chemical Industry
  Rosensteingasse, Austria

• 2020
  
  Dynamics of apomictic and sexual reproduction during primary succession on a glacier forefield in the Swiss Alps. Sailer C, Stöcklin J, Grossniklaus U. Sci Rep. 2020; 10(1):8269. [PubMed]
  
  Genomic signatures of convergent adaptation to Alpine environments in three Brassicaceae species. Rellstab C, Zoller S, Sailer C, Tedder A, Gugerli F, Shimizu KK, Holderegger R, Widmer A, Fischer MC. Mol Ecol. 2020; 29(22):4350-4365. [PubMed]
   
• 2019
  
  Convergent evolution in Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis arenosa on calamine metalliferous soils. Preite V, Sailer C, Syllwasschy L, Bray S, Ahmadi H, Krämer U, Yant L. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019; 374(1777):20180243. [PubMed]
  
  Pervasive population genomic consequences of genome duplication in Arabidopsis arenosa. Monnahan P, Kolář F, Baduel P, Sailer C, Koch J, Horvath R, Laenen B, Schmickl R, Paajanen P, Šrámková G, Bohutínská M, Arnold B, Weisman CM, Marhold K, Slotte T, Bomblies K, Yant L. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019; 3(3):457-468. [PubMed]
   
• 2018
  
  Transmembrane transport and stress response genes play an important role in adaptation of Arabidopsis halleri to metalliferous soils. Sailer C, Babst-Kostecka A, Fischer MC, Zoller S, Widmer A, Vollenweider P, Gugerli F, Rellstab C. Sci Rep. 2018;8(1):16085. [PubMed]
   
• 2016
  
  Apomixis Aalows the transgenerational fixation of phenotypes in hybrid plants. Sailer C, Schmid B, Grossniklaus U. Curr Biol. [PubMed]

All my publications on PubMed.