Andreas Fischer PhD MPM
Team Leader, Assistant Professor
My passion is to make the invisible world of chemical communication visible by combining behavioral ecology with metabolomics. We tackle challenges in sexual selection, urban ecology, and develop the foundation for a pesticide-free future
Madesh Kamalakannan B.Sc.(Hon.) M.Sc.
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant
Exploring pheromone-mediated interactions in the Mediterranean black widow Latrodectus tredecimguttatus by integrating metabolomics and behavioral assays to investigate mate choice, sexual conflict, and intraspecific competition
Frederik Berndt
B.Sc. Candidate
Exploring sexual conflict in Latrodectus spiders by focusing on male pheromonal manipulation of female attractiveness. We test whether males inhibit female pheromone emission, or whether an anti-aphrodisiac pheromone disrupts the female mate call.
Egon Oswald B.Sc.
M.Sc. Candidate
Shedding light on a ‚dark taxon‘, by exploring the understudied sensory world of the house centipede (Scutigera). I use behavioral experiments to test the role of chemical communication in mate choice and predation.
Nele Kümmelberger
B.Sc. Candidate
to be announced
Luis Barth
B.Sc. Candidate
to be announced
Alumni (B.Sc. and M.Sc.)
Vedanti Mahimkar M.Sc.
Mia F. Schumacher B.Sc.
Carmen Noske M.Sc.
Layla Gould B.Sc.
Elaine Hau B.Sc.
Jiamin Bai B.Sc.
Khushi Aulakh B.Sc.
Jocelyn Visser B.Sc.
Jane Vurdela B.Sc.
Natalie De Vita B.Sc.
Aryan Monfared B.Sc.
April Preston B.Sc.
Kelvin Lau B.Sc.
Ky Tran B.Sc.
Andrea C. Roman-Torres B.Sc.
Signe MacLennan B.Sc.
Nastaran Bahar B.Sc.
Deby Mcintosh B.Sc.
Jordan Stewart B.Sc.
Akshit Suri B.Sc.
Rachel Morris B.Sc.
Sula Fernando B.Sc.
T’ea Dong B.Sc.
Faize Faroon B.Sc.
Sarah Moniz de Sa B.Sc.
Yerin Lee B.Sc.
Dino Goh B.Sc.
Jamie Varney B.Sc.
Neilofar Amiri B.Sc.
Emmanuel Hung B.Sc.
John Forsynth B.Sc.
…and all the many short-term interns and volunteers over the years – THANK YOU – ….
Animal Metabolomics & Ecology 