Completed Theses of the Institute

Bandyopadhyay, P.: Investigating the cellular basis and functional impact of anisotropic lateral inhibition in the olfactory system of Drosophila. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2026)

Otárola Jiménez, J. A.: From courtship to egg-laying: How chemical cues and axperience shape reproductive strategies in Drosophila melanogaster. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2026)

Shiko, G.: Identification of progestogens and androgens in plants and their role in plant defence against fungal infection. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2026)

Vu, H. A.: Understanding plant natural product biosynthesis using single-cell mass spectrometry. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2026)

Arumugam, S.: Exploring innate and learned sensory behaviors in Drosophila under natural and perturbed context. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Chakraborty, S.: Mathematical models in the chemical ecology of plant-herbivore interactions. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Diaz-Morales, M.: From production to detection: the coevolution of pheromones and their corresponding receptor in Drosophila flies. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Florean, M.: Benzoxazinoids: a model for the repeated evolution of specialized metabolite biosynthesis in plants. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Leite Dias, S.: The contribution of microbiome communities in the gut of the mealybug Pseudococcus jackbeardsleyi to the detoxification of cocaine and other tropane alkaloids. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Li, Z.: Immune division of labour in ants. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Medina van Berkum, P.: Effects of biodiversity on plant chemical profiles and its eco-evolutionary significance. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Moreira-Soto, R. D.: Social cues in Drosophila oviposition: influence of conspecific and allospecific signal. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Pajar, J. A.: Towards enhancing plant defense against the specialist aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.): Lessons from tiny worms. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Protti Sanchez, F.: Predator psychology and signal conspicuousness in the evolution of aposematism. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Reddy, P. Y. N.: Unravelling the molecular basis of plant endophyte interaction. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Simao Pinto de Carvalho, A.: Ecology and evolution of gene expression an genome-eroded beetle symbionts. Dissertation, JGU Mainz, Mainz (2025)

Unger, K.: The role of the plant specialized metabolites glucosinolates and isothiocyanates in microbial interactions and leaf colonization. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Unni, A. P.: Conspecific olfactory signals: contextual behavioral responses in migratory locusts and fruit flies. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Varma, M.: Molecular basis of balanced color polymorphisms in grasshoppers. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)

Wierz, J. C.: Evolutionary trajectories of insect-bacteria symbioses: generalists & specialists traversing the parasitism-mutualism-continuum. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2025)