Israt Jahan
I am interested in the major evolutionary transitions with a focus on complex eukaryotes, sexual systems and genomic architecture. In the protist lab, I research the evolution of endosymbiosis and nuclear dimorphism in Paramecium bursaria using snRNA-seq and evolutionary theory. My Ph.D. was on the evolution of aggregative multicellularity and symbiosis in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum at Washington University in St. Louis (USA).
Selected Publications
- Jahan I, Scott TJ, Strassmann JE, & Queller DC. Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in aggregative development of an experimentally evolved social amoeba. Evolution Letters (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae063
- Larsen TJ, Jahan I, Brock DA, Strassmann JE, & Queller DC. Reduced social function in experimentally evolved Dictyostelium discoideum implies selection for social conflict in nature. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2023). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1722
- Jahan I, Larsen T, Strassmann JE, & Queller DC. Group maintenance in aggregative multicellularity. The Evolution of Multicellularity (2021). https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429351907-9
- Jahan I, Larsen TJ, Strassmann JE, & Queller DC. A history of symbiosis impacts the host evolutionary trajectory in experimentally evolved amoebas. bioRxiv (2026). https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.18.712585