Hagemann Justus

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Team : AMARE
Status : Chercheur contractuel
justus.hagemann*at*univ-lr.fr

Postdoctoral Fellow
La Rochelle University

Keywords: Comparative oncology, genomic instability, cancer risk, somatic mutation rates, tumor-suppression

Research Themes.

I am a post-doctoral researcher in the WiCanE group at LIENSs in La Rochelle and Alex Cagan’s group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge. My research explores the relationships between somatic mutation rates/signatures, cancer prevalence, and key life-history traits such as body size, longevity, diet, and reproductive strategy across mammals. By leveraging mammalian diversity, I aim to uncover the evolutionary and biological underpinnings of mutational processes. I acquired my PhD at the University of Potsdam, where I used museum specimens to investigate the molecular evolution of sengis (Macroscelidea), a group of mammals endemic to Africa.

Publications :

Hagemann, J., Hofreiter, M., Bibi, F., Holroyd, P., Arnold, P. (2023). Is it inappropriate to ask for your age? Evaluating Parameter Impact on Tree Dating in a Challenging Clade (Macroscelidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 183, 107756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107756
Hagemann, J., Conejero, C., Stillfried, M., Mentaberre, G., Castillo-Contreras, R., Fickel, J., López-Olvera, J. R. (2022). Genetic population structure defines wild boar as an urban exploiter species in Barcelona, Spain. Science of the Total Environment, 833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155126
Hagemann, J., Hofreiter, M., Nogales, L., Arnold, P. (2024) Four-toed Sengi (Petrodromus tetradactylus, Afrotheria, Mammalia) museomics reveals a crucial role of East African forests in macroscelidean diversification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 201, Issue 3, July 2024, zlae081, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae081
Arnold, P., Hagemann, J., Gilissen, E., Hofreiter, M. (2022). Otter shrew mitogenomes (Afrotheria, Potamogalidae) reconstructed from historical museum skins. Mitochondrial journals DNA Part B, 7(9), 1699–1701. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2022.2122747