People
Head of Research group
![Simon Tragust](/im/1647528514_2536_00_111.jpg)
Simon Tragust
Tel.: +49-345-5526510
Mail: simon.tragust@zoologie.uni-halle.de
PostDocs
![Pina Brinker collecting L. niger queens after nuptial flight](/im/1647858424_2536_00_111.jpg)
Project: The gut microbiota dimension of honeybee viral spill-over to wild pollinators (MLU|BioDivFund)
PhDs
![Lukas Koch](/im/1690792606_2536_00_111.png)
Mail: lukas.koch@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Project: FOrmIdable: Function, Origin, and Identity of peptides in venoms of formicine ants (collaboration with Dr. Timo Niedermeyer)
![Baptiste Nezel](/im/1684144734_2536_00_111.jpg)
Mail: baptiste.nezel@zoologie.uni-halle.de
Project: EMINENT: Consequences of an EMerging parasite on an INvasivE aNT in Europe
Students
![Emil Cyranka](/im/1663143782_2536_00_111.jpg)
Emil Cyranka
Forschungsgruppenpraktikum: Detoxification of secondary plant compounds by formicine ants
![](/im/1708332276_2536_00_111.jpg)
Sarah Theermann
Projektstudie: Methods to measure venom gland volume of formicine ants
BSc-thesis project: tba
![Hannah Gaitzsch](/im/1718777620_2536_00_111.jpg)
Hannah Gaitzsch
Project study: Parasite mediated competition
BSc-thesis project: tba