Independent Research Groups

We study how social organization affects disease dynamics, with the aim to identify properties of social groups that protect them against disease. [more]

 Our research group is focused on understanding how evolution happens as process.  [more]

We research the evolution of animal communication and colouration. Our research on the evolution of warning signal mimicry, aposematism, and masquerade covers the phenotype as well as the underlying genotype. [more]

We study how the insect brain perceives and processes sensory inputs to enable an animal to take odor-guided decisions in their respective environments. [more]

The overall approach of the Max Planck Fellow Group is to develop and use analytical techniques including comparative metabolomics to monitor chemically mediated interactions in plankton communities. [more]

We study the role of exogenous and endogenous chemical signals in the interaction and communication of plants with their environment, especially with pests such as herbivorous insects. [more]

The overarching goal of research in the Department of Molecular Ecology is to manipulate ecological interactions in nature to identify traits that have been shown to be important for the Darwinian fitness of an organism in the complexity of interactions that occur in nature. [more]