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Head of the department of Evolutionary Animal Ecology at Uni Bayreuth, Professor, #firstgen, mother. We love burying beetles and parasitic wasps.

Bayreuth, Germany
Joined January 2022
Had a fantastic time at the GEvol Meeting @SPP_GEvol in Frankfurt!!
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This is a sweet burying beetle larva. Each instar smells different, and mothers respond to the scent during feeding. Congrats to Jacky Sahm on publishing the third chapter of her PhD thesis: The scent of offspring @BehavEcol #buryingbeetles academic.oup.com/beheco/arti…
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#DZG2024 @KomBioTa Great meeting and a fantastic opportunity for @eric_Grub, @JankaPlate, @SciencePaulH, @Max_Evolbio, Jacky Sahm, @rombachjulius to present their work on #buryingbeetles and #parasitoidwasps EAE-Team @Steigerlab @JStoekl
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This happens when a 4 year old girl is listening to an awesome plenary by @WSalzburger @UniHohenheim @ZoolSocietyGer @dzgevol
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Huge congrats to Jacky Sahm on a fantastic PhD defense 🎓@unibt #buryingbeetles Wishing you an amazing postdoc journey!
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Thanks for the wonderful #ISCE2024 @ChemEcol_org meeting in Prague. Thanks for inviting me as a plenary speaker and for all the fantastic talks in our symposium 'Beyond Eusocial Organisms'.
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Congratulations to Bene Häussling for his fantastic defence of his PhD thesis "Advancing the biological control of the cosmopolitan pest Drosophila suzukii with parasitoid wasps"!! Supervised by @JStoekl
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Vielen Dank dafür, vielen Dank für die tolle Organisation, vielen Dank für die herzlichen Worte!!
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We are looking forward to the next DZG meeting @ZoolSocietyGer in Stuttgart organized by..............@JohannesSteidle #dzg24
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The @SteigerLab had a wonderful time at #dzg23 #dzg2023 in Kassel. Thanks for organizing childcare!!
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Great discussions at the posters of Jacky Sahm and Lena Zywucki from our Evolutionary Animal Ecology group. #dzg23 #buryingbeetles
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Enjoying #dzg23 in Kassel........after five years of absence due to illness
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Our dedicated and passionate bachelor and master students #UniBayreuth #buryingbeetles Yes, the tattoos are real!
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Job alert! We have an open PhD position for a @dfg_public funded project on the effect of social isolation on offspring performance. You are interested in the evolution of family life? Want to learn more about the consequences of social isolation in family living species? Apply!
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Our EAE-Team with @MadlenPrang, @Max_Evolbio, @DrTainaConrad, @JStoekl, Lena and Jacky had a wonderful last evening with @SakalukLab, Curtis,.. at #ISBE2022. Unfortunately, we only took pictures of our children, but they are anyway cuter. Thanks @ISBE2022 for the great childcare!
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Thanks to John Fitzpatrick and all the organizers of the #ISBE2022 for making it possible to bring our children to the conference. Emily loves it!
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Hairs are growing back! Thanks for the great support of @DrTainaConrad, @MadlenPrang, Jacky and the entire EAE-team! What a wonderful group! It helped a lot!
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…we made it. The Evolutionary Animal Ecology group at #UniBayreuth is finally on twitter. #BuryingBeetles #ParasiticWasps