Alumni and their doctoral theses
Thesis - PhD (242)
2024
Thesis - PhD
The ecological implications of tyrosine-supplementing symbiosis in grain pest beetles. Dissertation (2024)
2023
Thesis - PhD
Signals or resources?: biosynthesis and accumulation of zwitterionic compatible solutes in marine phytoplankton and their role in environmental stress responses. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2023)
Thesis - PhD
Drugs from bugs - Venomics of predatory Heteroptera. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2023)
Thesis - PhD
Diversity, evolutionary history and functional characterization of plant cell wall degrading enzymes in beetles of the family Cerambycidae. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2023)
2022
Thesis - PhD
Insect olfactory learning in the context of feeding and oviposition. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Strategies against herbivory in the carnivorous plant Nepenthes x ventrata. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Experience-dependent plasticity of olfactory circuits. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Specificity and regulation of chemical defenses in black poplar (Populus nigra, L.) against insect herbivores. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Biochemical, functional, and evolutionary aspects of flavonoid and benzoxazinoid O-methylation in grasses. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Characterization and regulation of insect odorant receptors. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Induced intra- and interplant signaling mechanisms upon biotic interactions in Ipomoea batatas and Arabidopsis thaliana. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Effects of the main secondary metabolites of Physalis plants on a specialist and a generalist species of Lepidoptera. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Characterization of mutualistic plant-fungus interactions and the participating fungal chemical mediators. Dissertation, Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Fungal endophytes mediate tree-insect interactions. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2022)
Thesis - PhD
Isolation, identification, and characterization of novel aluminium tolerant rhizobia strains from Kenyan soils. Dissertation (2022)
2021
Thesis - PhD
Neural mechanisms underlying innate and learnt olfactory-dependent behavior in insects. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2021)
Thesis - PhD
Colour development and pigment characterisation in flowers of Papaver nudicaule and Papaver rhoeas. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2021)
Thesis - PhD
Sucrase-transglucosidases and the interplay between detoxification and osmoregulation in phloem feeding insects. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2021)
Thesis - PhD
The evolution of host plant use and adaptation to Brassicaceae in the leaf beetle genus Psylliodes. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2021)
Thesis - PhD
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of metabolic cross-feeding. Dissertation, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück (2021)