Li, Z.; Wang, Q.; Knebel, D.; Grabe, V.; Ulrich, Y.: Division of labour in colony defence in a clonal ant. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 380 (1922), 20230270 (2025)
Stockmaier, S.; Ulrich, Y.; Albery, G. F.; Cremer, S.; Lopes, P. C.: Behavioural defences against parasites across host social structures. Functional Ecology 37 (4), pp. 809 - 820 (2023)
Jud, S. L.; Knebel, D.; Ulrich, Y.: Intergenerational genotypic interactions drive collective behavioural cycles in a social insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1986), 20221273 (2022)
Kay, T.; Alciatore, G.; La Mendola, C.; Reuter, M.; Ulrich, Y.; Keller, L.: A complete absence of indirect genetic effects on brain gene expression in a highly social context. Molecular Ecology 31 (21), pp. 5602 - 5607 (2022)
Alciatore, G.; Ugelvig, L. V.; Frank, E.; Bidaux, J.; Gal, A.; Schmitt, T.; Kronauer, D. J. C.; Ulrich, Y.: Immune challenges increase network centrality in a queenless ant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288 (1958), 20211456 (2021)
Fetter-Pruneda, I.; Hart, T.; Ulrich, Y.; Gal, A.; Oxley, P. R.; Olivos-Cisneros, L.; Ebert, M. S.; Kazmi, M. A.; Garrison, J. L.; Bargmann, C. I.et al.; Kronauer, D. J. C.: An oxytocin/vasopressin-related neuropeptide modulates social foraging behavior in the clonal raider ant. PLoS Biology 19 (6), e3001305 (2021)
Ulrich, Y.; Kawakatsu, M.; Tokita, C. K.; Saragosti, J.; Chandra, V.; Tarnita, C. E.; Kronauer, D. J. C.: Response thresholds alone cannot explain empirical patterns of division of labor in social insects. PLoS Biology 19 (6), e3001269 (2021)
Ulrich, Y.; Saragosti, J.; Tokita, C. K.; Tarnita, C. E.; Kronauer, D. J. C.: Fitness benefits and emergent division of labour at the onset of group living. Nature 560, pp. 635 - 638 (2018)
Ulrich, Y.; Burns, D.; Libbrecht, R.; Kronauer, D. J. C.: Ant larvae regulate worker foraging behavior and ovarian activity in a dose-dependent manner. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70, pp. 1011 - 1018 (2016)
Ulrich, Y.; Schmid-Hempel, P.: The distribution of parasite strains among hosts affects disease spread in a social insect. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 32, pp. 348 - 353 (2015)
Ulrich, Y.; Schmid-Hempel, P.: Host modulation of parasite competition in multiple infections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1740), pp. 2982 - 2989 (2012)
Ulrich, Y.; Sadd, B. M.; Schmid-Hempel, P.: Strain filtering and transmission of a mixed infection in a social insect. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24 (2), pp. 354 - 362 (2011)
Ulrich, Y.; Perrin, N.; Chapuisat, M.: Flexible social organization and high incidence of drifting in the sweat bee, Halictus scabiosae. Molecular Ecology 18 (8), pp. 1791 - 1800 (2009)
Berset-Brändli, L.; Jaquiéry, J.; Broquet, T.; Ulrich, Y.; Perrin, N.: Extreme heterochiasmy and nascent sex chromosomes in European tree frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1642), pp. 1577 - 1585 (2008)
The natural product chemist and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.
As the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, we are fully committed to the principle of scientific freedom as enshrined in Article 5 of the German Basic Law and recognized worldwide as a fundamental human right.
The award recognizes her outstanding research in the chemistry and biochemistry of plant natural products, with particular emphasis on the detailed elucidation of metabolic pathways and the engineering of novel pathways and compounds for biomedical applications.
The doctoral researcher from the Department of Insect Symbiosis gave an excellent talk about the temporal and spatial dynamics of symbiont lineages in a grain pest beetle.
At the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE), currently taking place in Prague, Jonathan Gershenzon, Managing Director of our Institute and Head of the Department of Biochemistry, was awarded the Society's Silver Medal.
Jonathan Gershenzon, Head of the Department of Biochemistry, has been elected to membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). This prestigious honor recognizes his outstanding contributions to the life sciences.
After the IMPRS symposium on April 17-18, 2024, Marion Lemoine, Ronja Krüsemer, Johannes Körnig and Iulia Barutia received the presentation awards for the best talks and posters.
Wir laden am 25. April 2024 wieder alle interessierten Schülerinnen und Schüler ab der 8. Klasse ein, am Forsche Schüler Tag einen Blick in unsere Forschungslabore zu werfen und selbst Wissenschaft „auszuprobieren“.