Welcome to the Animal Metabolomics & Ecology (AME) Lab.
Exciting news
WE ARE MOVING to WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
more updates soon
We study the chemical signals that drive biotic interactions.
We focus on metabolites that provide chemical information to animals such as
with whom to mate, where to live, and where to find resources while avoiding becoming prey.
By linking chemical information to fitness outcomes, we test theories regarding sexual communication, social information use and how animal communities assemble.
We employ field and laboratory experiments and integrate them with state-of-the-art metabolomics to track how anthropogenic stressors alter communication reliability in urban ecosystems.
Recent Lab News
- August 2026 – we are moving! Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo ON, is our new home!
- July 2026 – We are attending the ISBE 2026 confrence, hope to see you there
- June 2026 – Congratulatoins to Frederik Berndt who defended his Bachelor Thesis exceptionally!
- April 2026 – We were recently interviewed by Laborpraxis on our recent study
- March 2026 – We welcome Madesh Kamalakannan, our new PhD Candidate to Greifswald University
- February 2026 – Our review on the Chemical Ecology of Arachnids is now out as preprint
- January 2026 – We wish everyone a healthy and peaceful 2026!
Show 2025 news
- December 2025 – Fresh off the press: The chemosensory toolkit of a cursorial spider was published in Communications Biology
- November 2025 – Congratulations to Mia and Egon who both successfully defended der B.Sc. theses
- October 2025 – Our research drew some media attention
- September 2025 – We are attending the ECA (Zadar, Croatia) and DZG (Berlin) meetings
- August 2025 – Fresh off the press: quinoline-derivates protect crustacean woodlice was published in The Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- August 2025 – We are recruiting for a PhD position – fully funded! Call to apply to everyone!
- July 2025 – Our research on the chemical communication of the European black widow has been funded for three years by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
- July 2025 – Our Carmen Noske successfully defended her M.Sc. Thesis project on multimodal courtship of Pisaura mirabilis – Congratulations!
