Former Employees
Dr. Renja Romey-Glüsing
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
Key aspects of activity
- insects adapted to toxic secondary plant compounds: focussing on the flea beetle Longitarsus jacobaeae feeding on Senecio jacobaea
Fee Meinzer
Doctoral student
Department Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
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
Dr. Safaa Dalla
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
Department Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
Key aspects of activity
- 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
Dr. Michael Baum
Doctoral student
Department Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
Key aspects of activity
- 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. Jennifer Lohr
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Evolutionary Biology
Dr. Suda Ravindran
Doctoral student
Department Biology
Population Genomics
suda.parimala.ravindran@uni-hamburg.de
Dr. Verena Tams
Doctoral student
Department Biology
Population Genomics
verena.tams@uni-hamburg.de