Institut for Biologi

Aarhus Universitets segl

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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

Lab Members

PostDocs

Anne Aagard Lauridsen
Anne Aagard Lauridsen

Anne Aagard Lauridsen

  • Epigenetics
  • Gene expression
  • Local adaptation
Jilong Ma

Jilong Ma 

  • Evolutionary and population genomics 

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 Albo
Maria Albo

Maria Jose Albo

Associate Professor at Faculty of Science, University of the Republic, Uruguay

National Geographic Explorer 

  • Sexual selection and environment
  • Evolution of mating system in arthropods

  • Origin and evolution of nuptial gifts in spiders

     

Lena Grinsted
Lena Grinsted

Lena Grinsted 

Senior lecturer in Zoology, University of Portsmouth, UK

  • Behavioural ecology and evolution of group living in spiders

  • Interactions with kleptoparasites, parasitoids, and competitors in communal webs

  • Communal spiders as biological pest control agents in agroecosystems
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Cristina Tuni

Cristina Tuni

Professor, University of Turin, Italy

  • 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

Clemence Krystel Marie Rose

Clemence Krystel Marie Rose - PhD Task differentiation in social spiders, Ecology of social spiders, Urban ecology, Microbiome 

Kirsten Gade Malmos

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Kirsten Gade Malmos - Post doc BioNMR, Metabolomics

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

Julieta Goenaga

Julieta Goenaga
Julieta Goenaga - Post Doc Sexual selection, evolution of reproductive proteins

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

Alexander Lammers

Alexander Lammers - PhD Chemical ecology, Bioactive compounds, ​Metabolomics​​, GC-MS, HPLC-MS, NMR, and mass spectrometry imaging 

Mette Marie Busck

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Mette Marie Busck - PhD Symbiosis, Microbiome, Non-genetic adaptation

Jessica Barker

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Revideret 17.04.2026
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Anne Kirstine Mehlsen