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Professorin Dr. Susanne Foitzik

Address Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Institut für Organismische und Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie
AG Foitzik - Verhaltensökologie und Soziale Evolution
Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15
55128 Mainz

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Ultimate and proximate aspects of spatial learning in an individually foraging social insect (Research Grants)
  - Comparative evolutionary genomics of slave-making ants and their hosts (Research Grants)
  - The evolution and organization of non-canonical olfactory systems in ants and other insects (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Coevolution between slavemaking ants and their hosts (Research Grants)
  - Interactions between the virulence of social parasites and host resistance (Research Grants)
  - Alternative reproduktive Taktiken bei der Ameisengattung Hypoponera: Genetische, ökologische oder soziobiologische Ursachen? (Research Grants)
  - Der Einfluss von Migration und Populationssubstrukturierung auf lokale Anpassung und die Dynamik der Koevolution in Sozialparasitensystemen (Research Grants)
  - Individual and collective decision making and risk evaluation in slavemaking ants (Research Grants)
  - The evolutionary significance of intra- and intercolonial variation in behavior, morphology, genetics and immuno-competence in ants (Research Grants)
  - The evolution of resistance and virulence in structured populations (Research Units)
  - Multiple levels in the interaction between a parasite and its social host: direct and indirect effects on group members and social resilience (Research Grants)
  - Influence of ecology and social interactions on the early evolution of family life. (Research Grants)
  - Importance of social immune system on the early evolution of social life (Research Grants)
  - Comparative genomics of slave-making ants and their hosts (Research Grants)
  - The adaptive significance of social information in tandem-running ants (Research Grants)
  - Functional basis of the fecundity - longevity reversal in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus (Research Units)
  - Reversal of the fecundity / longevity trade-off across social transitions in ants (Research Units)
  - The genes mediating the use of social information in honeybees (Apis mellifera) (Research Grants)
  - Genome-wide detection of selection and adaptation in a slavemaking ant and its co-evolving host (Research Grants)
As Spokesperson
- Current projects
  - GRK 2526: GenEvo - Gene Regulation in Evolution: From Molecular to Extended Phenotypes (Research Training Groups)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Radiation in socially parasitic Formicoxenine ants (Priority Programmes)
  - Causes and consequences of the loss of genetic variation in Central European ants: investigations in two natural `tramp´species (Research Grants)
  - Between parasitism, mutualism and predation: interactions between myrmecophiles and army ants (Research Grants)

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