Lhomme, P.; Carrasco, D.; Larsson, M.; Hansson, B. S.; Anderson, P.: A context-dependent induction of natal habitat preference in a generalist herbivorous insect. Behavioral Ecology 29 (2), pp. 360 - 367 (2018)
Majid, A.; Burenhult, N.; Stensmyr, M.; De Valk, J.; Hansson, B. S.: Olfactory language and abstraction across cultures. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 373 (1742), 20170139 (2018)
Molnar, B. P.; Boddum, T.; Hill, S. R.; Hansson, B. S.; Hillbur, Y.; Birgersson, G. A.: Ecological and phylogenetic relationships shape the peripheral olfactory systems of highly specialized gall midges (Cecidomiiydae). Frontiers in Physiology 9, 323 (2018)
Das, S.; Trona, F.; Khallaf, M. A.; Schuh, E.; Knaden, M.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.: Electrical synapses mediate synergism between pheromone and food odors in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (46), pp. E9962 - E9971 (2017)
Lebreton, S.; Borrero-Echeverry, F.; Gonzalez, F.; Solum, M.; Wallin, E. A.; Hedenström, E.; Hansson, B. S.; Gustavsson, A.-L.; Bengtsson, M.; Birgersson, G.et al.; Walker III, W. B.; Dweck, H.; Becher, P. G.; Witzgall, P.: A Drosophila female pheromone elicits species-specific long-range attraction via an olfactory channel with dual specificity for sex and food. BMC Biology 15, 88 (2017)
McCormick, A. C.; Grosse-Wilde, E.; Wheeler, D.; Mescher, M. C.; Hansson, B. S.; De Moraes, C. M.: Comparing the expression of olfaction-related genes in gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) adult females and larvae from one flightless and two flight-capable populations. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5, 115 (2017)
Retzke, T.; Thoma, M.; Hansson, B. S.; Knaden, M.: Potencies of effector genes in silencing odor-guided behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology 220, pp. 1812 - 1819 (2017)
Strube-Bloss, M.; Grabe, V.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.: Calcium imaging revealed no modulatory effect on odor-evoked responses of the Drosophila antennal lobe by two populations of inhibitory local interneurons. Scientific Reports 7, 7854 (2017)
Wicher, D.; Morinaga, S.; Halty-deLeon, L.; Funk, N.; Hansson, B. S.; Touhara, K.; Stengl, M.: Identification and characterization of the bombykal receptor in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (10), pp. 1781 - 1786 (2017)
Zakir, A.; Khallaf, M. A.; Hansson, B. S.; Witzgall, P.; Anderson, P.: Herbivore-induced changes in cotton modulates reproductive behaviour in the moth Spodoptera littoralis. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5, 49 (2017)
Badeke, E.; Haverkamp, A.; Hansson, B. S.; Sachse, S.: A challenge for a male noctuid moth? Discerning the female sex pheromone against the background of plant volatiles. Frontiers in Physiology 7, 143 (2016)
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“.