Research and Teaching

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Experiences

Visit of Anneli Hoikkala’s lab in Jyväskylä, Finland, in order to supervise the final project of a graduate student on sperm competition and sexual conflict in Drosophila montana, May 2006. At the same time attending a workshop on Candidate Genes organised by the EU Network.

Visit of Prof. Jean-Marc Jallon's lab, at the Université d’Orsay Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France for one month, October 2005, to learn how to obtain cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Drosophila montana samples with a gas chromatograph and how to analyse them.

Organising and teaching a workshop on QTLs and how to use QTL cartographer in the scope of a Meeting of the EU Research Training Network ("Genetic analysis of complex co-evolved behavioural traits") in St Andrews, September 2004.

Participant at the NC Summer Institute Statistical Genetics, Faro, Portugal, 2004, modules “Principles of Quantitative Genetics” and “Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping”

Teaching Assistant

EAWAG/ETH

• Evolutionary biology: Laboratory course. Techniques and concepts of population genetics and phylogenetics.

University of St Andrews

• Practical “Mechanisms in Animal Behaviour – Behaviour Genetics of Drosophila”, 2005 assisting in first semester, leading in second semester.
• Lecture, Special topics in Evolutionary Biology, 2005 first and second semester, “Evolution of female choice and co-evolution of male traits and female preference”
• Tutoring, 2^nd year students in Evolutionary Biology, Module BL2005
• Shared supervision of 4^th year Honors Project Students

University Bonn, Germany

• Introduction to biology. Winter term 1998, 1999, 2000. Summer term 1999.
• Insect field ecology. Summer term 2000, 2001.
• Evolutionary Ecology. Winter term 1998, 1999, 2000.

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

• Practical Course in Ethology. Summer term 1996.
• Field and Laboratory Assistant in a project on reproductive strategies in great tits (Parus major) in the Animal Behaviour working group of Prof. Dr. E. Curio at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. February 1996 – March 1997.

Student Assistant

Assistant in the Library of the Faculty of Biology, Ruhr-University Bochum. 1995 – 1997.

Animal housing (small rodents) at the Institute for Neurochemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum. 1996.

Studies

Intensive courses in Parasitology, Develpomental Biology and Animal Behaviour during graduate studies.