Former Employees

• insects adapted to toxic secondary plant compounds: focussing on the flea beetle Longitarsus jacobaeae feeding on Senecio jacobaea

Key aspects of activity

• Investigations of the adaptability of Oncopeltus fasciatus (large milkweed bug) to the hostplants of the genus Asclepias, focussing on cardenolide-transport and sequestretion

fee.meinzer@uni-hamburg.de

• Analysis of molecular changes in the ouabain binding site located in the alpha subunit of the Na,K-ATPase of cardenolide-adapted insects and their effect on resistance to ouabain and other cardenolides

• Cardenolide-adapted Chrysomelidae
• Feces as a defence mechanism against beetle larvae (Lilioceris merdigera)
• The glial "blood-brain"-barrier in insects
• Identification and characterisation of transmembrane transporters (Oatps and ABC-transporters in insects)
  
  
  
  

Dr. Suda Ravindran
Doctoral student
Institute of Cell and Systems Biology of Animals
Molecular Evolutionary Biology

suda.parimala.ravindran@uni-hamburg.de

verena.tams@uni-hamburg.de