News
2022
Antology
17.09.2022: What an honor and supernice oppurtunity to give the introductory talk for Evelyn Bracklow's art project Antology in Dortmund in the rooms of the Frappanz Kollektiv . Check it out and stay tuned.
14.09.2022: After a supernice week in Berlin at the Ecological Immunology Workshop 2022 , our group welcomes Sally-Luise Volland that started her BSc work on establishing a pH measurement system to track the use of formicine venom gland secretions in realtime and our group also welcomes Emil Cyranka that will together with Nina Schäffner elucidate the potential of formicine ant venoms to detoxify plant alkaloids in his BSc work.
29.08.2022: Welcome to Nina Schäffner that started her BSc work in our lab elucidating the potential of formicine ant venoms to detoxify plant alkaloids.
L. neglectus sampling in Jena
06.07.2022: A fun afternoon in Jena with Pina and Lukas. First sampling L. neglectus in the botanical garden and then handing over samples while enjoying a beer with our collaborators Adrian Richter and Kenny Jandausch .
01.06.2022: Welcome to Pina Brinker who just started today in our group!
12.04.2022: Congratulations to Tim Kaufmann for successfully defending his BSc-Thesis: Potential detoxification of the plant alkaloid cytisin by the ant Camponotus nicobarensis via poison gland secretions
25.02.2022: Research funding of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e. V. awarded: Towards automatic tracking of sanitary behaviours involving antimicrobial compounds in space and time