People
Head of Research group
Simon Tragust
Simon Tragust
Tel.: +49-345-5526510
Mail: simon.tragust@zoologie.uni-halle.de
PhDs
Mail: ulku.altindag@zoologie.uni-halle.de
Project: FOrmidablE - Function, Origin and Evolution of peptides in venoms of formicine ants
Lukas Koch
Mail: lukas.koch@fu-berlin.de
Project: FOrmIdable: Function, Origin, and Identity of peptides in venoms of formicine ants (collaboration with Dr. Timo Niedermeyer , FU Berlin)
Baptiste Nezel
Mail: baptiste.nezel@zoologie.uni-halle.de
Project: EMINENT: Consequences of an EMerging parasite on an INvasivE aNT in Europe
Students
Friederike Heise
BSc-thesis: Competitive interactions between the invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus with native Lasius species in the presence of an infection with the ectoparasite Laboulbenia formicarum
Nina Schäffner
Nina Schäffner
Projektstudie and MSc-thesis: Wound-care behavior in formicine ants (collaboration with Erik Frank, University of Würzburg )
Sarah Theermann
Sarah Theermann
Projektstudie and MSc-thesis: Venom variability in formicine ants
Former group members
Pina Brinker collecting L. niger queens after nuptial flight
Pina Brinker (Postdoctoral researcher)
Now at the University of Ulm