April 25, 2012

Flies Process Attractive and Deterrent Odors in Different Brain Areas

Newly developed analytic device Flywalk allows accurate studies of insect behavior to be made (NATURE Scientific Reports, Cell Reports, and Journal of Experimental Biology, April 2012) more »

March 9, 2012

Orientation of Desert Ants: Every Cue Counts

Foraging desert ants always find their way back to the nest, even when it is only marked by a magnetic cue, vibration, or carbon dioxide (PLoS ONE and Current Biology, March 2012) more »

February 29, 2012

Studying the Importance of Biological Rhythms for the Ecological Performance of Plants

... thanks to Funding by the European Research Council (ERC) more »

News

April 19, 2012
Royal Entomological Society (RES) Journal Award for Yannick Pauchet

Events

October 3-5, 2012
International Symposium "Ethomics: Asking the Organism in the Genomics Era"

Seminars

May 22, 2012, 02:00 p.m.
Institute Seminar

Jürgen Engelberth: Molecular, physiological, and ecological activities of green leaf volatiles

Recent publications

Kallenbach et al.: Empoasca leafhoppers attack wild tobacco plants in a jasmonate-dependent manner and identify jasmonate mutants in natural populations. PNAS

Hoang et al.: A native plant growth promoting bacterium, Bacillus megaterium B55, rescues growth performance of an ethylene insensitive plant genotype in nature. Frontiers in Plant-Microbe Interaction

Woldemariam et al.: Indoleacetic acid alanine resistant is a jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine hydrolase that attenuates plant defenses against herbivores. The Plant Journal