Current group members
Researchers / Post docs
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Mikael Carlsson
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Mikael is interested in insect sensory physiology and behavior. He has been working on a diverse range of neurophysiological and behavioral topics using primarily lepidopteran and dipteran model species. In this project Mikael is primarily investigating the use of, and integration of sensory cues of different modalities during host location.
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Maria de la Paz Celorio Mancera
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Maria’s efforts are conducted to address the ecological function of genes
integrating nymphalid butterfly genomics and ecology. Important tools for
this task are microarrays and bioinformatics. She is very interested in
genes and their products present in larval and adult salivary glands since
their study may provide insights on the co-evolution of butterfly-host
interactions.
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PhD Students
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Hélène Audusseau
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Hélène is studying the effects of climate and land use on the distribution of and interactions between nettle-feeding butterflies in Sweden. Her project is a part of the EkoKlim initiative of Stockholm University — an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary effort to investigate how climatic variation affects social and ecological processes across spatial and temporal scales.
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Alexander Schäpers
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Alexander’s PhD-project uses behavioral studies to investigate mechanistic causes of host-plant preferences. One emphasis is to link ecological and physiological knowledge for better understanding oviposition choices in insects. The study system includes the nymphalid butterflies Polygonia c-album, Aglais urticae, Vanessa cardui and Vanessa atalanta.
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Past group members
Researchers / Post docs
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Ullasa Kodandaramaiah
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Ullasa worked in my project during 2010 and 2011, with phylogenetics, biogeography and butterfly-host plant coevolution. Since March 2011, Ullasa has moved on to do a postdoc in Paul Brakefield's research group Radiating Butterflies at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
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PhD Students
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Jessica Slove Davidson
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Jessica's project involved the the phylogenetic study of changes in host plant range and its evolutionary consequences, such as the diversification of the plant-insect interaction and speciation. She presented her doctoral thesis in 2012 with the title "The plasticity and geography of host use and the diversification of butterflies"
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Josefin Johansson (now Erlingsjö)
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Josefin mainly focused on the behavioral aspects of host plant selection in butterflies, with special emphasis on the mechanisms behind host range expansions. She presented her licentiate thesis in 2008 with the title: "Multiple host use in a butterfly: the role of host plant frequency and abundance"
