Former Employees

Dr. Renja Romey-Glüsing

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department 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

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

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