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| PhD student | Country of Origin | Topic of Doctoral Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| Alhammoud, Nour | Germany | Are JA-mutants maintained in native populations based on a frequency-depandent selection on a growth-defense tradeoff? |
| Arias Cordero, Erika | Costa Rica | The transmission mechanism of the endosymbionts living in hindgut lobe of Melolontha hippocastani |
| Badeke, Elisa | Germany | Reception and coding of pheromone signals in insects |
| Badgaa, Amarsanaa | Mongolia | Chlorophyll degradation in the insect gut |
| Barthel, Andrea | Germany | Innate Immunity in generalist and specialist Lepidoptera |
| Baschwitz, Amelie | Germany | The neural representation of attractive odor blends in Drosophila |
| Berasategui, Aileen | Spain | Role of endosymbiotic gut bacteria of Hylobius abietis in detoxification of terpenes |
| Bodemann, René | Germany | Molecular biological analysis of the defense system in leaf beetles |
| Boeckler, Andreas | Germany | Induction of anti-herbivore defenses in wild Populus nigra and metabolic consequences for herbivores |
| Bondoc, Karen Grace | Philippines | Complex interactions during biofilm formation by benthic diatoms |
| Brütting, Christoph | Germany | Using Tupiocoris notatus to understand rhythmic behaviors of Nicotiana attenuata plants |
| Bühlmann, Cornelia | Switzerland | Flexible use of multiple cues: Multimodal navigation in the desert ant Cataglyphis |
| Busch, Andre | Germany | Endogene Zellulasen in Blattkäfern |
| Christoff Wouters, Felipe | Brazil | Detoxification of benzoxazinoids in a plant-insect system |
| Clavijo McCormick, Andrea Liliana | Colombia | Volatile-mediated indirect defense of poplar |
| D'Souza, Glen | India | The effect of genetic diversity on the evolution and maintenance of mutualistic interactions |
| Dietel, Anne-Kathrin | Germany | Coevolution in bacteria |
| Dolke, Franziska | Germany | Chemical communication in plant-parasitic nematodes |
| Dweck, Hany | Egypt | Evolution of olfaction in Drosophila mojavensis cluster |
| Ebrahim, Shimaa | Egypt | Olfactory-directed behavior in Drosophila |
| Farhan, Abu | India | Starvation effects on olfactory sensitivity in Drosophila |
| Fatangare, Amol | India | Development of methods for visualization of metabolomic maps and fluxes in plants challenged by insect and bacteria |
| Flórez Patino, Laura Victoria | Colombia | Evolution, genomics and chemical ecology of bacteriome-associated symbionts in darkling beetles |
| Fragoso, Variluska | Brazil | The influence of light signaling on conditional ecological responses in N. attenuata |
| Frenkel, Johannes | Germany | The first diatom pheromone |
| Friedemann, Katrin | Germany | Attachment structures and plant surfaces - an evolutionary arms race |
| Getahun, Merid Negash | Ethiopia | Response dynamics in Drosophila olfaction |
| Groh, Katrin | Germany | Vergleichende Analyse antennaler Transkriptome von Crustaceen |
| Großmann, Peter | Germany | Identification of cellular cost-benefit trade-offs in biofilm formation on various surfaces |
| Gulati, Jyotasana | India | Developing bioinformatics approaches to vexing problems in chemical ecology |
| Handrick, Vinzenz | Germany | Biosynthesis of benzoxacinoids in corn |
| Hänniger, Sabine | Germany | Host plant differentiation in Spodoptera frugiperda |
| Haverkamp, Alexander | Germany | A bouquet for a hawkmoth: Tracing the behavioural and neuronal correlates of flower perception in Manduca sexta |
| Heiling, Sven | Germany | Molecular and genetic characterization of diterpene glycosides in Nicotiana attenuata |
| Henke, Catarina | Germany | Ectomycorrhizal signaling |
| Hidalgo, William | Colombia | Metabolomic and fluxomic studies of resistant and susceptible Musa varieties in response to Mycosphaerella fijiensis |
| Hilpert, Stephanie | Germany | Apomixis in Poa pratensis - analysis of apomixis candidate genes for heterosis fixation |
| Huber, Meret | Switzerland | Interaction between plants and root herbivores |
| Hufsky, Franziska | Germany | Developing novel methods for the identification of metabolites in Nicotiana attenuata and green algae |
| Hussain, Taufia | India | Modulation of attractive olfactory inputs in Drosophila |
| Irmisch, Sandra | Germany | Identification and characterization of enzymes which are involved in herbivore-induced biosynthesis of volatiles in poplar |
| Jacquemoud, Dominique | France | Induced defences in the red alga Gracilaria chilensis |
| Jeschke, Verena | Germany | Closing the door on trouble: The role of insect gut membranes in avoiding the toxicity of plant defenses |
| Jiménez-Alemán, Guillermo Hugo | Cuba | Synthesis of fluorinated phytohormones to study transport phenomena in plants |
| Jirschitzka, Jan | Germany | Isolation and characterization of genes involved in tropane alkaloid biosynthesis in Erythroxylaceae |
| Joo, Youngsung | Korea | Understanding the ecological consequences of circadian rhythms in Nicotiana attenuata |
| Kandasamy, Dineshkumar | India | Enzymatic reactions in Ceratocystis polonica to increase virulence |
| Karpinski, Anne | Germany | ABC transporters in insect detoxification pathways |
| Khan, Sher Afzal | Pakistan | Gene(s) functional analyses in Lepidoptera insect |
| Köhler, Sabrina | Germany | Production dynamics and ecology of symbiont-mediated antibiotics in the beewolf-Streptomyces mutualism |
| König, Christopher | Germany | Unknown pathways: Olfactory signaling in arthropods |
| Krempl, Corinna | Germany | Molecular evolution and ecology of plant secondary metabolite detoxification in Heliothine moths |
| Kuhlisch, Cornelius | Germany | Chemical Communication in entomopathogenic nematodes |
| Kulkarni, Purva | India | Computational imaging mass spectrometry |
| Kumar, Pavan | India | Probing herbivore's response to plant's defense metabolites |
| Kuwar, Suyog | India | Transcriptional and translational responses to dietary protease inhibitors of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera |
| Li, Dapeng | China | Comparative metabolomics of Nicotiana attenuata responses to insect herbivores: Mass spectral database construction for metabolite identification and bioinformatics of data integration with post-genomic resources |
| Li, Guanjun | China | Differential Gene Expression in A. thaliana using MecWorm and Herbivores |
| Ling, Zhihao | China | Analyzing the genome of Nicotiana attenuata |
| Linz, Jeanine | Germany | Olfactory adaptations in drosophilid flies (Drosophilidae) |
| Luu, Van Thi | Viet Nam | The influence of circadian clock-related genes on N. attenuata´s microbial community structure |
| Meza Canales, Ivan David | Mexico | Role of cytokinin metabolism in Nicotiana attenuata's defense response against herbivores |
| Miazzi, Fabio | Italy | Interaction of behaviorally active odor molecules with the surface of the insect antenna |
| Michal Johnson, Joy | India | Role of calcium signalling in beneficial and pathogenic interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Mißbach, Christine | Germany | Evolution of coreceptors in insect olfaction |
| Mrozinska, Anna | Poland | Molecular analysis of the interaction between Arabidopsis thaliana and Piriformospora indica |
| Mukunda, Latha | India | Deciphering olfactory signal transduction cascade in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Nagel, Nadja | Germany | Target identification of bioactive signaling molecules by click chemistry |
| Nagel, Raimund | Germany | Regulation of terpene biosynthesis in transgenic spruce |
| Napagoda, Mayuri | Sri Lanka | Metabolomics of Natural Products: Development of fast screening and imaging methods |
| Neunemann, David | Germany | RNA interference and insect-virus interactions |
| Novoselov, Alexey | Russian Federation | Einfluss pflanzlicher Toxine auf das Mikrobiom von Insekten |
| Pauls, Gerhard | Germany | Sequestration by leaf beetles: identification and characterization of transport proteins |
| Poreddy, Spoorthi | India | Probing the herbivore’s responses to plant defenses using plant mediated RNAi |
| Rahfeld, Peter | Germany | Characterization of enzymes of the defense system of leaf beetles |
| Reiher, Katharina | Germany | Chemical communication between soil fungi, ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes and their tree hosts |
| Ruiz Machado, Ricardo Alberto | Colombia | The role of roots in Nicotiana attenuata plant-environment interactions |
| Sahadevan, Yamuna | India | Trisporic acid signalling in Zygomycetes |
| Salem, Hassan | Egypt | Specificity and dynamics of the firebug-Coriobacterium symbiosis |
| Sanchez Arcos, Carlos | Colombia | Legume chemistry and the specificity of pea aphid host races |
| Santhanam, Rakesh | India | Plant bacterial community interactions in Nicotiana attenuata |
| Schäfer, Martin | Germany | The role of cytokinins in priming plant defense responses to herbivores |
| Scholz, Sandra | Germany | Analysis of CML calcium sensor proteins in interactions of plants and herbivores |
| Shitut, Shraddha | India | The evolution of cooperative networks within microbial communities |
| Späthe, Anna | Germany | The Function of Volatile Semiochemicals in Host Plant Choice of Ovipositing Manduca Moths (Sphingidae) |
| Stanton, Mariana | Brazil | Resistance traits important for Coremelania seed predators and thigmomorphogenic responses in N. attenuata |
| Stitz, Michael | Germany | Over-expressing At JMT in Nicotiana attenuata creates a metabolic sink in the JA pathway: Consequences for flower development, jasmonate production and defense activation |
| Stock, Magdalena | Germany | Bioinformatic analyses of cDNA sequences derived from various leaf beetles |
| Strauß, Anja | Germany | Sequestration of plant glucosides within leaf beetles: Elucidation of a probable entire network of transport proteins |
| Sudakaran, Sailendharan | India | Functional analysis of the bacterial community in the mid-gut of firebugs |
| Sun, Chao | China | Role of cytoplasmic calcium elevation in plant/microbe interactions |
| Tan, Wenhua | China | |
| Thoma, Michael | Germany | The role of adaptation in Drosophila olfaction |
| Vattekkatte, Abith | India | Mechanisms of terpene biosynthesis in plants |
| Vosteen, Ilka | Germany | The role of enemy free space for the maintenance of pea aphid races |
| Wang, Ding | Germany | Data processing of transcriptome sequences from leaf beetles |
| Warskulat, Anne-Christin | Germany | Analytical characterization of the biosynthesis of nudicaulins in Papaver nudicaule |
| Yilamujiang, Ayufu | China | Analysis of protein secretion in carnivorous plants |
| Yon, Felipe | Peru | Characterization of circadian clock in Nicotiana attenuata and their roles in plant-pollinator interaction |