Completed Theses of the Institute

Otárola Jiménez (Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, (. o. E. N.: From courtship to egg-laying: How chemical cues and axperience shape reproductive strategies in Drosophila melanogaster. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2026)

Vu, H. A.: Understanding plant natural product biosynthesis using single-cell mass spectrometry. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2026)

Arumugam, S.: Exploring innate and learned sensory behaviors in Drosophila under natural and perturbed context. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Chakraborty, S.: Mathematical models in the chemical ecology of plant-herbivore interactions. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Diaz-Morales, M.: From production to detection: the coevolution of pheromones and their corresponding receptor in Drosophila flies. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Florean, M.: Benzoxazinoids: a model for the repeated evolution of specialized metabolite biosynthesis in plants. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Leite Dias, S.: The contribution of microbiome communities in the gut of the mealybug Pseudococcus jackbeardsleyi to the detoxification of cocaine and other tropane alkaloids. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Li, Z.: Immune division of labour in ants. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Medina van Berkum, P.: Effects of biodiversity on plant chemical profiles and its eco-evolutionary significance. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Moreira-Soto, R. D.: Social cues in Drosophila oviposition: influence of conspecific and allospecific signal. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Pajar, J. A.: Towards enhancing plant defense against the specialist aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.): Lessons from tiny worms. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Protti Sanchez, F.: Predator psychology and signal conspicuousness in the evolution of aposematism. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Reddy, P. Y. N.: Unravelling the molecular basis of plant endophyte interaction. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Simao Pinto de Carvalho, A.: Evolution of molecular mechanism regulating mutualism establishment. Dissertation, JGU Mainz, Mainz (2025)

Unger, K.: The role of the plant specialized metabolites glucosinolates and isothiocyanates in microbial interactions and leaf colonization. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Varma, M.: Molecular basis of balanced color polymorphisms in grasshoppers. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Wierz, J. C.: Evolutionary trajectories of insect-bacteria symbioses: generalists & specialists traversing the parasitism-mutualism-continuum. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Winter, G.: Individual differences and unpredictability in escape behavior. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Yepes Vivas, S. A.: Intraspecific chemodiversity in black poplar (Populus nigra) and its impact on biotic interactions. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Boccia, M.: Elucidation and metabolic engineering of plant alkaloid and terpene biosynthetic pathways. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2024)