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Group Leader

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Trine Bilde

​Trine Bilde - Professor

  • Evolution of cooperation
  • Evolutionary ecology of inbreeding
  • Kin cooperation
  • Ecology and phylogeography of social spiders
  • Sexual selection and evolution of mating systems
  • Ecogenomics
  • Epigenetics and Gene expression
  • Plasticity and adaptation
  • More
Photo by Virginia Settepani; Female Pisaura mirabilis, Pevestorf, Germany
Photo by Virginia Settepani Female Pisaura mirabilis, Pevestorf, Germany

Lab Members

PhDs

Anne Aagard Lauridsen
Anne Aagard Lauridsen

Anne Aagard Lauridsen - PhD

  • Epigenetics
  • Gene expression
  • Local adaptation

Alexander Lammers - PhD

​(co-supervising with Michael Lalk, Greifswald University (Germany))

  • Chemical ecology
  • Bioactive compounds 
  • ​Metabolomics​​
  • GC-MS, HPLC-MS, NMR, and mass spectrometry imaging  
Clemence Krystel Marie Rose
Clemence Krystel Marie Rose

Clemence Krystel Marie Rose - PhD

  • Task differentiation in social spiders,
  • Ecology of social spiders,
  • Urban ecology,
  • Microbiome  

Academic staff

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Jesper Bechsgaard

​Jesper Bechsgaard 

Investigator on population genetics

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Virginia Settepani

Virginia Settepani 

Center Manager

Associated researchers

Maria Jose Albo

Assistant at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Science, University of the Republic, Uruguay, and at Clemente Estable Biological Research Institute

  • Sexual selection,
  • Evolution of mating system,
  • Origin and evolution of nuptial gifts in spiders,
  • Pisauridae and Trechaleidae families  

Cristina Tuni

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Cristina Tuni

Research Associate, LMU München, Department of Biology

Evolution of polyandry, Nuptial feeding mating systems

Former lab members

Christina Holm

Christina Holm
Christina Holm - PhD Dietary niche and cooperative foraging, Parental care, Life history, Physiology

Marija Majer

Marija Majer
Marija Majer - PhD Landscape genetics, Macroecology

Lena Grinsted

Lena Grinsted
Lena Grinsted - PhD Task differentiation, Evolution of reproductive skew

Reut Berger-Tal

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Reut Berger-Tal - Post Doc Cooperation, Life history, Immunology

Shenglin Liu

Shenglin Liu
Shenglin Liu - Post doc Bioinformatics

Seven Nazifi

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Seven Nazifi - PhD Host-microbiome interactions, antimicrobial compounds

Tobias Sandfeld

Tobias Sandfeld PhD, Chemical ecology of social spiders (Stegodyphus dumicola) and their microbial symbionts.

Bram Vanthournout

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Bram Vanthournout - Post Doc Sex ratio distortion, Endosymbionts

André Walter

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André Walter - Post doc Kin recognition, Behaviour

Michelle Greve

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Michelle Greve - Post Doc Life history, Physiology, Macroecology

Caitlin Stern

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Caitlin Stern - Post Doc evolution of sociality, evolution of cooperation, mathematical modeling of the evolution of behavior

Anja Junghanns

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Anja Junghanns - PhD Parental care, Matriphagy, Histology
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Anne Kirstine Mehlsen