Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy

2024

• Oc­to­ber 2024: The work­shop "The Evi­den­ce Syn­the­sis Tool­kit: Per­spec­ti­ves from Phi­lo­so­phy and Bio­lo­gy", co-​organised by Al­fre­do Sánchez-​Tójar, takes place on the 7th and 8th (pro­gram at: https://shor­turl.at/h3NKR; more at: https://shor­turl.at/4OP1V)
• Sep­tem­ber 2024: We heart­war­min­gly wel­co­me An­drea Prus­sack (https://shor­turl.at/y2E4c) as our se­creta­ry. We are happy to have you on board. 
• March 2024: Al­fre­do Sánchez-​Tójar is ho­no­u­red to par­ti­ci­pa­te as a key­note spea­ker for the up­co­ming EOU Fledglings Mee­ting 2024 in Pra­gue (22-​24th March; more at: https://fledglings2024.bird­life.cz/)
• Fe­bruary 2024: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Klaus Rein­hold for be­co­ming a mem­ber of SOR­TEE's SAB (https://www.sor­tee.org/peop­le/#senior-​advisory-board)
• Fe­bruary 2024: Wel­co­me to Mir­jam Bor­ger, who is joi­ning the de­part­ment to work with Klaus on the D04 NC3 pro­ject (https://www.uni-​bielefeld.de/fa­kul­tae­ten/bio­lo­gie/for­schung/ver­buen­de/sfb_nc3/pro­jects/d04ph2)
• Ja­nuary 2024: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Lukas Ei­gent­ler for ob­tai­ning an As­si­stant Pro­fes­sor po­si­ti­on at the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­wick  (UK).

2023

• Au­gust 2023: The Be­ha­viour In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence took place in Bie­le­feld. Check out the video fea­turing ours and other Uni­Bie de­part­ments HERE and HERE
• April 2023: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Júlio Se­go­via for ha­ving se­cu­red a 2-​year Wal­ter Ben­ja­min grant from the DFG to work on "Context-​dependent be­ha­viour in predator-​prey in­ter­ac­tions: an evi­den­ce syn­the­sis ap­proach".
• April 2023: Wel­co­me to Maria Moiron, who is joi­ning the de­part­ment as a ju­ni­or PI to work on evo­lu­tio­na­ry eco­lo­gy.
• March 2023: A warm wel­co­me to Chan­tal Fenn, a new TA for the group.
• Ja­nuary 2023: Wel­co­me to Lukas Ei­gent­ler, who just joi­ned the NC3 as a post­doc working on the theo­ry of in­di­vi­dua­liza­ti­on with Klaus Rein­hold.
• Ja­nuary 2023 Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to David Ki­ku­chi for re­cei­ving an As­si­stant Pro­fes­sor­ship at Ore­gon State Uni­ver­si­ty (USA).

2022

• De­cem­ber 2022: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Steve Ramm for ob­tai­ning a Ju­ni­or Pro­fes­sor­ship at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ren­nes (Fran­ce).
• No­vem­ber 2022: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Al­fre­do Sánchez-​Tójar for being elec­ted to the Board of Di­rec­tors of the So­cie­ty for Open, Trans­pa­rent, and Re­li­a­ble Eco­lo­gy and Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy (SOR­TEE), and will serve his turn from 2023-​2025.
• No­vem­ber 2022: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Sonja Schind­ler for being elec­ted as the re­p­re­sen­ta­ti­ve in the com­mis­si­on for "re­se­arch and ju­ni­or sci­en­tist" and as de­pu­ty for "Qua­li­ty ma­nage­ment" at Bie­le­feld Uni­ver­si­ty.
• June 2022: A warm wel­co­me to Sart­hak Gro­ver, a vi­si­ting BS-MS stu­dent from IISER Mo­ha­li here to pur­sue a Mas­ter the­sis pro­ject on the evo­lu­ti­on of sel­fing su­per­vi­sed by Steve Ramm.
• May 2022: Wel­co­me to Su­haas Seh­gal, a vi­si­ting BS-MS stu­dent from IISER Mo­ha­li, and congra­tu­la­ti­ons on the award of an un­der­gra­dua­te pro­ject scholar­ship from the As­so­cia­ti­on for the Study of Ani­mal Be­ha­viour to study resource-​dependent sex al­lo­ca­ti­on in Ma­crostomum li­gna­no toge­ther with Steve Ramm.  
• May 2022: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Denis Meu­then for ob­tai­ning a Freigeist-​Fellowship to work on plasti­ci­ty (more in: here, here).
• April 2022: We hosted the an­nu­al gra­dua­te mee­ting of the evo­lu­tio­na­ry bio­lo­gy sec­tion of the Ger­man Zoo­lo­gi­cal So­cie­ty (DZG). The mee­ting was or­ga­nis­ed by Al­fre­do Sánchez-​Tójar and Steve Ramm and hosted at the ZiF, with help from many mem­bers of the de­part­ment. Thanks, ever­yo­ne and to all the at­ten­de­es, it was won­der­ful to get back to mee­ting in per­son! More in­for­ma­ti­on here.
• April 2022: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Tuba Rizvi for se­cu­ring fun­ding th­rough the DAAD to do her PhD on “Sh­aping fe­ma­le pre­fe­rence func­tions and shared be­ha­viou­ral traits with va­ry­ing po­pu­la­ti­on den­si­ty”.
• March 2022: Sh­reya Dimri has star­ted her PhD on "Evi­den­ce syn­the­sis to un­der­stand phe­no­ty­pic va­ria­ti­on" as part of the 2nd phase of the SFB-​TRR 212.
• Fe­bruary 2022: Tuba Rizvi has star­ted her 6-​month BYRF bridge scholar­ship to work on “Sh­aping fe­ma­le pre­fe­rence func­tions and shared be­ha­viou­ral traits with va­ry­ing po­pu­la­ti­on den­si­ty”.
• Fe­bruary 2022: Júlio Se­go­via has star­ted his 1-​year BYRF bridge scholar­ship to work on "Context-​dependent be­ha­viour in prey-​predator in­ter­ac­tions”.
• Jan 2022: Denis Meu­then has had his ca­re­er co­lumn on 'how to sup­port lip-​reading re­se­ar­chers' pu­blished in Na­tu­re (here). 

2021

• No­vem­ber 2021: the DFG has con­fir­med fun­ding for the 2nd phase of the SFB-​TRR 212 (more in­for­ma­ti­on and ad­ver­ti­sed po­si­ti­ons at: https://www.uni-​bielefeld.de/fa­kul­tae­ten/bio­lo­gie/for­schung/ver­buen­de/sfb_nc3/).

• Oc­to­ber 2021: Sh­reya Dimri has star­ted her 6-​month scholar­ship from the De­part­ment of Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy to start working on “Evi­den­ce syn­the­sis to un­der­stand phe­no­ty­pic va­ria­ti­on”.

• Sep­tem­ber 2021: Steve Ramm has been elec­ted as a spea­ker of the Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy sec­tion of the Deut­sche Zoo­lo­gi­sche Ge­sell­schaft (DZG; Ger­man Zoo­lo­gi­cal So­cie­ty).

• April 2021: Athi­na Gi­an­na­ka­ra has begun working as a post­doc on our DFG-​funded pro­ject on se­mi­nal fluid in flat­worms, as­sisted part-​time by Sonja Schind­ler.
• April 2021: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr Antje Girndt who is now working as Pro­ject Ma­na­ger at the Ber­tels­mann Founda­ti­on. We wish you a suc­cess­ful ca­re­er out­si­de aca­de­mia!
• Fe­bruary 2021: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr Jen­dri­an Rie­del for se­cu­ring fun­ding th­rough the Wal­ter Ben­ja­min Pro­gram from the DFG.
• Ja­nuary 2021: Dr Lucia Men­tesa­na has joi­ned us a guest post­doc­to­ral sci­en­tist, cur­r­ent­ly col­la­bo­ra­ting with Al­fre­do Sánchez-​Tójar on a meta-​analysis.
• Ja­nuary 2021: Athi­na Gi­an­na­ka­ra suc­cess­ful­ly de­fen­ded her PhD the­sis. Congra­tu­la­ti­ons Dr Athi­na for an ex­cel­lent job!
• Ja­nuary 2021: Al­fre­do Sánchez-​Tójar has joi­ned the Edi­to­ri­al Boards of the jour­nals Be­ha­vio­ral Eco­lo­gy and Eco­lo­gy Let­ters.

2020

• No­vem­ber 2020: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Athi­na Gi­an­na­ka­ra for hand­ling in her PhD the­sis: "The evo­lu­ti­on of self-​fer­ti­liza­ti­on in herm­aphro­di­tic flat­worms"
• No­vem­ber 2020: We congra­tu­la­te Bora Kim and Jen­dri­an Rie­del for re­cei­ving a “Bie­le­feld Young Re­se­ar­cher’s fund”. Bora de­cli­ned it since she will be mo­ving to the Kon­rad Lo­renz In­sti­tu­te of Etho­lo­gy (Vi­en­na) to do her PhD the­sis under the su­per­vi­si­on of Zala Sarah and Penn Dus­tin.
• No­vem­ber 2020: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Bora Kim for ac­cep­ting a PhD po­si­ti­on at the Kon­rad Lo­renz In­sti­tu­te of Etho­lo­gy (Vi­en­na).
• Au­gust 2020: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Bora Kim for hand­ling in her Mas­ter the­sis: "Fit­ness con­se­quen­ces of male size in Gam­bu­sia: A sys­te­ma­tic re­view and meta-​analysis"
• July 2020: We wel­co­med Dr. David Ki­ku­chi as a new post-​doc working in one of our pro­jects in the SFB. David works on mi­micry and mo­del­ling evo­lu­ti­on.
• July 2020: Steve Ramm has been awar­ded a re­se­arch grant from the DFG to study “The ad­ap­ti­ve si­gni­fi­can­ce and rapid evo­lu­tio­na­ry dy­na­mics of se­mi­nal fluid” in flat­worms.
• July 2020: Thanks and best wis­hes to de­par­ting group mem­ber Dr. Mi­cha­el Weber, for­mer PhD stu­dent and for the past year a Bie­le­feld Young Re­se­ar­chers Fund post­doc.
• June 2020: We congra­tu­la­te Dr. Denis Meu­then for re­cei­ving a “Bie­le­feld Young Re­se­ar­cher’s fund”. Denis works on phe­no­ty­pic plasti­ci­ty in snails and other spe­ci­es.
• May 2020: We wel­co­med Dr. Antje Girndt as a “Bie­le­feld Young Re­se­ar­cher’s fund” re­ci­pi­ent. Antje works on sperm phe­no­ty­pic plasti­ci­ty.
• March 2020: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Klaus Rein­hold, who was elec­ted to serve for a se­cond pe­ri­od on the DFG board for Zoo­lo­gy.
• Fe­bruary 2020: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Pete Trim­mer, who has re­cei­ved and ac­cep­ted an offer for a lec­ture­ship at the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­wick (UK).
• Ja­nuary 2020: We wel­co­med Dr. Denis Meu­then as a guest to the de­part­ment. Denis works on (trans­ge­nera­tio­nal) plasti­ci­ty.
• Jan 2020: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to for­mer Alex­an­der von Hum­boldt Stif­tung post­doc­to­ral fel­low Dr. Yumi Naka­dera on star­ting her new pro­ject on Ly­ma­nea se­mi­nal fluid with Joris Koene at VU Ams­ter­dam. Loo­king for­ward to our con­ti­nu­ed col­la­bo­ra­ti­on!

2019

• De­cem­ber 2019: We said good­bye to Dr. Lu­ci­en­ne Ewe­leit.
• July 2019: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr. Ni­cho­las P. Moran on re­cei­ving a Marie Curie Fel­lowhip to work at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­mark.
• July 2019: Best of luck to for­mer PhD stu­dent Dr. Bahar Pat­lar on ta­king up her new po­si­ti­on as a post­doc­to­ral fel­low in Al­ber­to Ci­vet­ta’s lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Win­ni­peg, Ca­na­da.
• April 2019: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr. Mi­cha­el Weber on suc­cess­ful­ly de­fen­ding his PhD on the Iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on and func­tio­nal cha­rac­te­ri­sa­ti­on of se­mi­nal fluid pro­te­ins in a si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly herm­aphro­di­tic flat­worm!
• April 2019: We wel­co­med our new Tech­ni­cal As­si­stant Sonja Schind­ler.
• March 2019: We wel­co­med Dr. Se­pand Ri­jayi as a new post-​doc working in one of our pro­jects in the SFB.
• Ja­nuary 2019: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr. Bahar Pat­lar on suc­cess­ful­ly de­fen­ding her PhD on the Evo­lu­tio­na­ry quan­ti­ta­ti­ve ge­ne­tics of se­mi­nal fluid!

2018

• De­cem­ber 2018: We said good­bye to Re­na­te Feist. For more than 40 years she work­ed as a Tech­ni­cal As­si­stant in the Fa­cu­la­ty of Bio­lo­gy and held the de­part­ment of Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy toge­ther. Thank you for your com­mit­ment!
• July/Au­gust 2018: We wel­co­med Dr. Al­fre­do Sánchez-​Tójar and Dr. Ni­cho­las Moran. Both work on meta-​analysis on niche con­cepts as part of the newly fun­ded SFB.
• July/Au­gust 2018: We wel­co­med Eras­mus stu­dent Yasin Yarin from Is­tan­bul.
• June 2018: We wel­co­med Na­vina Lilie. She star­ted her PhD on a pro­ject em­be­ded in the newly fun­ded SFB, su­per­vi­sed by Tim Schmoll and Peter Kors­ten.
• May 2018: We wel­co­med Athi­na Ga­va­no­zi from the De­mocrit Uni­ver­si­ty (Greece) as a ERAS­MUS+ guest stu­dent. Athi­na work­ed on acoustic com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on in Or­thop­terans, su­per­vi­sed by Klaus Rein­hold.
• May 2018: Steve Ramm has joi­ned the Edi­to­ri­al Board of the Jour­nal of Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy.
• Ja­nuary 2018: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr. Pablo Val­ver­de on the com­ple­ti­on of his PhD pro­ject on Phe­no­ty­pic plasti­ci­ty and condition-​dependent trait ex­pres­si­on in se­xu­al or­na­ments and body co­lour in the al­pi­ne gras­shop­per Gom­pho­ce­rus si­bi­ri­cus.

2017

• De­cem­ber 2017: We said good­bye to Dr. Ali­cia Jar­ri­ge. For one year she joi­ned our group and con­duc­ted her Ca­re­er Bridge pro­ject in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Dr. Tim Schmoll. We wish her all the best for the fu­ture.
• No­vem­ber 2017: We hosted the 11. In­ter­na­tio­nal Ma­crostomum Mee­ting.
• No­vem­ber 2017: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to post­doc Dr. Mat­thi­as Ga­li­paud on ta­king up his new po­si­ti­on as a post­doc in Hanna Kokko's group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zu­rich.
• Oc­to­ber 2017: Wel­co­me to our new post­doc Dr. Rienk Fok­ke­ma who joi­ned the de­part­ment to con­duct a Ca­re­er Bridge pro­ject in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Dr. Tim Schmoll and Peter Kors­ten.
• Sep­tem­ber 2017: We hosted the 110. Jah­res­ta­gung der Deut­schen Zoo­lo­gi­schen Ge­sell­schaft. More de­tails here.
• Ja­nuary 2017: Prof. Dr. Klaus Rein­hold gave a pu­blic lec­tu­re "Evo­lu­ti­on – alltägli­cher als man denkt" or­ga­nis­ed by the Na­tu­ral His­to­ry Mu­se­um (namu) and Na­tur­wis­sen­schaft­li­cher Ver­ein für Bie­le­feld.

2016

• De­cem­ber 2016: Wel­co­me to our new post­doc Dr. Ali­cia Jar­ri­ge who joi­ned the de­part­ment to con­duct a Ca­re­er Bridge pro­ject in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Dr. Tim Schmoll.
• Oc­to­ber 2016: PD Dr. Tim Schmoll has been ap­poin­ted In­te­rim Pro­fes­sor for Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy and Sys­te­ma­tics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ulm.
• Oc­to­ber 2016: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr. Shag­hay­egh Soudi on the com­ple­ti­on of her PhD pro­ject on Loch­maea beet­le spe­cia­ti­on! Shag­hay­egh has now moved to Ca­na­da to begin a post­doc pro­ject on the ge­no­mics of local ad­ap­ta­ti­on at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­ga­ry.
• Oc­to­ber 2016: Post­doc Dr. Yumi Naka­dera has begun her Alex­an­der von Hum­boldt re­se­arch fel­low­ship on se­mi­nal fluid in snails.

• Sep­tem­ber 2016: We wel­co­med Anais Edme from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Olo­mouc (Czech Re­pu­blic) as a ERAS­MUS+ guest stu­dent. Anais work­ed with Dr. Tim Schmoll on the he­ri­ta­bi­li­ty of bird sperm traits.

• Sep­tem­ber 2016: Steve was a ple­na­ry spea­ker at the An­nu­al Mee­ting of the Ger­man An­dro­lo­gy So­cie­ty in Saar­brü­cken.

• No­vem­ber 2016: Wir gra­tu­lie­ren Mi­cha­el Haneke-​Reinders und Dr. Lu­ci­en­ne Ewe­leit zur er­folg­rei­chen Be­wer­bung um die Sti­pen­di­en des Bie­le­fel­der Nach­wuchs­fonds.
• July 2016: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Dr. Lu­ci­en­ne Ewe­leit on the com­ple­ti­on of her PhD pro­ject on spe­cia­ti­on in bush­cri­ckets. Lu­ci­en­ne has been awar­ded with a post­doc bridge sti­pend from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bie­le­feld.
• Au­gust 2016: Öncü Ma­ra­ci joi­ned the group as a post­doc, working on ad­ap­ta­ti­on to cli­ma­te chan­ge.
• Stu­dent pro­jects avail­able with Dr. Tim Schmoll. For fur­ther in­for­ma­ti­ons see.
• Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to our col­le­ague (and for­mer PhD stu­dent in the de­part­ment) Dr. Nils Cor­des on the pu­bli­ca­ti­on of his new book Schrei­ben im Bio­lo­gie­stu­di­um.
• May 2016: Our for­mer Emmy Noe­ther group lea­der Prof. Dr. Hol­ger Schielzeth has begun his new Pro­fes­sor­ship of Po­pu­la­ti­on Eco­lo­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Jena. Congra­tu­la­ti­ons Hol­ger! We also said good­bye to Dr. Petra Die­ker and Ana­su­ya Cha­kra­bar­ty, both of whom have joi­ned Hol­ger in Jena. Good luck ever­yo­ne with the new start!

• April 2016: We wel­co­med Fran Re­bri­na from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Za­greb (Croa­tia) as a ERAS­MUS guest stu­dent to work on the evo­lu­tio­na­ry eco­lo­gy of gras­shop­pers and bush­cri­ckets.

• April 2016: Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to PD Dr. Tim Schmoll on ob­tai­ning his ha­bi­li­ta­ti­on.
• Steve has joi­ned the Edi­to­ri­al Board of BMC Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy.
• We were plea­sed to wel­co­me Marlène Gou­bault to our group as a vi­si­ting ERAS­MUS guest lec­tu­rer hosted by Tim.
• Group mem­bers or­ga­nis­ed two sym­po­sia at the 8th Eu­ropean Con­fe­rence on Be­ha­viou­ral Bio­lo­gy (ECBB 2016) in Vi­en­na from July 12th to the 15th, 2016. Ste­ven Ramm (with Mi­chae­la Thoß, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ve­te­ri­na­ry Me­di­ci­ne Vi­en­na): Be­ha­vi­or meets pro­teo­mics - in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry in­sights and pro­spects. Tim Schmoll (with Marlène Gou­bault, Uni­ver­si­ty of Tours): In­te­gra­ting pre- and post-​copulatory se­xu­al selec­tion when stu­dy­ing ma­ting be­ha­viour.
• Fe­bruary 2016: We hosted the Si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly Herm­aphro­di­tic Or­ga­nisms Work­shop at the ZiF.
• Ja­nuary 2016: Klaus Rein­hold was in­ter­view­ed by the local news­pa­per Neue West­fä­li­sche In­ter­view.

2015

• No­vem­ber 2015: Klaus Rein­hold was elec­ted as a mem­ber of the DFG Re­view Board 203 Zoo­lo­gy.
• We will host the Si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly Herm­aphro­di­tic Or­ga­nisms Work­shop from 17-19 Fe­bruary 2016. More info here.
• In Au­gust, seven mem­bers of the de­part­ment Ana­su­ya, Hol­ger, Mi­cha­el, Bahar, Shag­hay­egh, Steve and Yumi at­ten­ded the ESEB Con­gress in Lau­sanne, with Hol­ger or­ga­ni­sing one of the sym­po­sia on "Novel in­sights in the ge­ne­tics of sex-​specific va­ria­ti­on".
• Congra­tu­la­ti­ons to Athi­na Gi­an­na­ka­ra for com­ple­ting her Mas­ter the­sis on "The ef­fect of sperm com­pe­ti­ti­on on the speed of sper­ma­to­ge­ne­sis in the herm­aphro­di­tic flat­worm Ma­crostomum li­gna­no".
• Steve's paper in Pro­cee­dings B on self-​inseminating flat­worms re­cei­ved wide media co­ver­age, in­clu­ding these ar­ti­cles in The Guar­di­an, Die Welt,Sci­ence, NBC News and Bild der Wis­sen­schaft.

Steve Ramm has joi­ned the Edi­to­ri­al Board of Mole­cu­lar Human Re­pro­duc­tion

2014

• Steve Ramm hat einen The­men­heft zur Sper­mi­en­kon­kur­renz zu­sam­men­ge­stellt, das jetzt in der For­schungs­zeit­schrift Mole­cu­lar Human Re­pro­duc­tion er­schie­nen ist.
• Mat­thi­as Ga­li­paud hat als Post­doc in un­se­re Ab­tei­lung mit sei­nen theo­re­ti­schen Ar­bei­ten zur Evo­lu­ti­on phä­no­ty­pi­scher Plas­ti­zi­tät be­gon­nen. Will­kom­men, Mat­thi­as!
• Petra Die­ker hat als Post­doc in un­se­re Ab­tei­lung mit ihrer Ar­beit zur Fit­ness­mes­sung bei Heu­schre­cken be­gon­nen. Will­kom­men, Petra!
• Bahar Pat­lar und Mi­cha­el Weber haben als neue Dok­to­ran­den in un­se­re Ab­tei­lung mit ihrer Ar­beit zur Sa­men­flüs­sig­keit von Platt­wür­mern be­gon­nen. Will­kom­men!
• Mitte März or­ga­ni­sie­ren wir einen Work­shop des DFG-​Nachwuchsakademie OFF­SPRing am ZIF.

2013

• Sa­bri­na Polte und Klaus Rein­hold haben den Best-​Paper-Award 2013 von Plant Spe­ci­es Bio­lo­gy er­hal­ten.
• Ul­ri­ke Lampe hat ihre Dok­tor­ar­beit zum Thema Ef­fects of an­thro­po­ge­nic noise on male court­ship si­gnal­ling and fe­ma­le re­spon­se in the gras­shop­per Chort­hip­pus bi­gut­tu­lus er­folg­reich ver­tei­digt. Herz­li­chen Glück­wunsch, Ulli!
• Nils Cor­des hat seine Dok­tor­ar­beit zum Thema Se­xu­al selec­tion and the cau­ses of be­ha­viou­ral dif­fe­ren­ces er­folg­reich ver­tei­digt. Herz­li­chen Glück­wunsch, Nils!
• Ste­ven Ramm er­hält For­schungs­mit­tel der DFG (Deut­sche For­schungs­ge­mein­sch­ft) für die Un­ter­su­chung der funk­tio­nel­len und evo­lu­ti­ons­ge­ti­sche Rolle von Sa­men­flüs­sig­keit.
• Mi­cha­el Haneke-​Reinders er­hält ein Dok­to­ran­den­sti­pen­di­um von der Friedrich-​Naumann-Stiftung.
• Pablo Val­ver­de hat den Pos­ter­preis beim Dok­to­ran­den­tref­fen Eu­ropean Mee­ting of PhD Stu­dents in Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy ge­won­nen.
• Hol­ger Schielzeth er­hält den Reviewer-​Preis 2013 von der Peerage of Sci­ence. Peerage of Sci­ence ist eine Online-​Service zur För­de­rung der Qua­li­tät des wis­sen­schaft­li­chen Peer-​Reviews. Mehr dazu
• Ein You­Tube video stellt ein Pro­jekt vor, an dem unser De­part­ment be­tei­ligt war (pu­bli­ziert in Glo­bal Chan­ge Bio­lo­gy).
• Ul­ri­ke Lampe ist die Ge­win­ne­rin des 2012 Hal­da­ne Prei­ses der Bri­tish Eco­lo­gi­cal So­cie­ty. Der Preis wird jedes Jahr an den bes­ten wis­sen­schaft­li­chen Ar­ti­kel eines jun­gen Wis­sen­schaft­lers/einer jun­gen Wis­sen­schaft­le­rin in der Zeit­schrift Func­tio­nal Eco­lo­gy ver­ge­ben. Mehr dazu
• Ein kürz­lich er­schie­ne­ner Sta­tis­tik­ar­ti­kel der Ab­tei­lung [Na­ka­ga­wa & Schielzeth 2013. Meth. Ecol. Evol. 4: 133-​142] wurde von der Fa­cul­ty of 1000 emp­foh­len. In die­ser Ar­ti­kel dis­ku­tie­ren wir ver­schie­de­ne Me­tho­den zur Quan­ti­fi­zie­rung der er­klär­ten Va­ri­anz in ge­misch­ten Mo­del­len.
• Amy Back­house von der Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge er­gänzt un­se­re Ab­tei­lung als wei­te­re Tech­ni­sche As­sis­ten­tin.
• IN DEN ME­DI­EN: Eine neue Stu­die [Rein­hold & Ramm 2013. Behav. Ecol. So­cio­bi­ol. 67: 395-​398] hat her­aus­ge­fun­den, dass männ­li­che Laub­heu­schre­cken beim Sper­mi­en­trans­fer das Ti­ming be­stim­men.
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2012

• Die po­pu­lä­re, päd­ago­gi­sche Web­sei­te Un­der­stan­ding Evo­lu­ti­on der Uni­ver­si­ty of Ca­li­for­nia Ber­ke­ley nutzt die kürz­lich er­schie­ne­ne Stu­die [Lampe et al. 2012. Funct. Ecol. 26: 1348-​1354], um zu er­klä­ren wie evo­lu­ti­ons­bio­lo­gi­sche For­schung in der Pra­xis aus­sieht: Gras­shop­pers chan­ge their tune. Is it evo­lu­ti­on in ac­tion?
• IN DEN ME­DI­EN: In einer neuen Stu­die [Lampe et al. 2012. Funct. Ecol. 26: 1348-​1354] zei­gen wir, dass Heu­schre­cken ihren Ge­sang an Au­to­bahn­lärm an­pas­sen.
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• Klaus Rein­hold wurde zum Dekan der Fa­kul­tät für Bio­lo­gie der Uni­ver­si­tät Bie­le­feld ge­wählt.
• Ste­ven Ramm's For­schung an der evo­lu­ti­ons­öko­lo­gi­schen Rolle von Sper­mi­nen wird durch ein Ca­re­er In­te­gra­ti­on Grant im Rah­men des Marie Curie-​Programms der EU ge­för­dert.
• Die von der DFG un­ter­stüt­ze For­scher­grup­pe Re­duc­tion of Phe­no­ty­pic Plasti­ci­ty in Be­ha­viour by Early Ex­pe­ri­ence, zu der auch ein Pro­jekt der Ab­tei­lung für Evo­lu­ti­ons­bio­lo­gie ge­hört, wurde für eine wei­te­re For­schungs­pe­ri­ode ver­län­gert.
• Die Deut­sche For­schungs­ge­mein­schaft (DFG) för­dert als Teil des Emmy-​Noether-Programms die For­schung zur Evo­lu­ti­on se­xu­el­ler Or­na­men­te bei Gom­pho­ce­rus si­bi­ri­cus unter der Lei­tung von Hol­ger Schielzeth. Pres­se­mit­tei­lung
• Die neue Abteilungs-​Webseite ist nun aktiv.