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George Kolyfetis

PhD student

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Universität Konstanz
Fachbereich Biologie

D-78457 Konstanz, Germany

room: M1120

email: georgios.kolyfetis@uni-konstanz.de

web: https://neuro.uni-konstanz.de

Curriculum vitae

Current Employment:

10/2023 - (30/09/2026): University of Konstanz - PhD in Computational Neuroethology
Department: Neurobiology
Cluster for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB)
International Max Planck Research School for Quantitative Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution (IMPRS-QBEE)

2021 - 2023 Master of Science in Evolutionary Biology
Mundus Erasmus Master in Evolution (MEME)
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Uppsala University, Sweden

2016 - 2021 Bachelor of Science in Biology
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Journal Publications

Kolyfetis, George E., Gregor Belušič, and James J. Foster. "Electrophysiological recordings reveal photoreceptor coupling in the dorsal rim areas of honeybee and bumblebee eyes." Biology Letters 21.9 (2025): 20250234. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0234

P. Guder, M. Scheungrab, P. Kohnert, G. E. Kolyfetis, G. Wanner, M. Heß, Horizontal cell connectivity in the anchovy retina—a 3D electron microscopic study BMC Biol 23, 137 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02242-7

Edwards, Scott V., Bohao Fang, Danielle Khost, George E. Kolyfetis, Rebecca G. Cheek, Devon A. DeRaad, Nancy Chen et al. "Multispecies pangenomes reveal a pervasive influence of population size on structural variation." Science 390, no. 6778 (2025): eadw1931. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adw1931

G. E. Kolyfetis, P. S. Adam, T. L. V Bornemann, C. E. Vorgias, A. J. Probst, Genomic remnants of ancestral methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in Archaea drive anaerobic carbon cycling. Sci. Adv. 8, eabm9651 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm9651

B. H. Meyer, P. S. Adam, B. A. Wagstaff, G. E. Kolyfetis, A. J. Probst, S. V Albers, H. C. Dorfmueller, Agl24 is an ancient archaeal homolog of the eukaryotic N-glycan chitobiose synthesis enzymes. Elife. 11, e67448 (2022). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67448