Franziska Brünner was my first student here at the ETH and a paper from her semesterarbeit has been published in PLoS One. Franzi’s paper explores the expression of immune genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris when they are infected with the trypanosome gut parasite Crithidia bombi. Unlike most other papers looking at gene expression in bumblebees we used colonies that… Read more »
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Overview of the year thus far.
With overhauling my site, I’ve decided to try and share some of the goings-on of my work and the work of my students. But now I have a backlog of stuff that has happened this year to share. So, rather than pretend to go back in time and rehash each event I’ll try to summarise… Read more »
Welcome!
This is where I will try and keep a log of my and my students’ activities. Right now it’s a bit barren, but I am in the process of fleshing it out!