Klaus Fischer (biologist)

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Klaus Fischer (2010)

Klaus Fischer (born February 27, 1968 in Bad Marienberg ) is a German biologist and professor of zoology at the University of Koblenz-Landau . Before that, he taught and researched as a professor for animal ecology at the University of Greifswald until September 2017 .

Life

After graduating from Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium in Westerburg in 1987 and completing his military service, Fischer studied biology at the University of Marburg . He finished his studies in 1996 with his diploma thesis on the blue iridescent fire butterfly with Harald Plachter . In 2000 he completed his doctorate in zoology with Konrad Fiedler at the University of Bayreuth and received summa cum laude for this . He spent his postdoc phase in the Netherlands until 2003. There he was employed at the University of Leiden with Paul M. Brakefield in the field of Evolutionary Biology. Afterwards he moved back to Bayreuth. From 2003 to 2007 he was head of an Emmy Noether junior research group of the German Research Foundation (DFG). During this time (2006) he completed his habilitation on Life-history evolution: Causes and consequences of phenotypic variation in butterfly reproduction ( Life-history Evolution: Reasons and consequences of phenotypic variation in the reproduction of butterflies ) with Klaus H. Hoffmann . In 2006 he was appointed professor of animal ecology at the University of Greifswald. Since 2007 he has also held the position of director of the Zoological Institute and Museum. In November 2014, the cross-institute graduate school Biological Reactions to New and Changing Environmental Conditions (RESPONSE) was approved and financed by the DFG (DFG GRK 2010). It is initially set for four and a half years from the official start in April 2015. Fischer was one of the main applicants and was active as a coordinator and spokesperson until he changed jobs. In October 2017 he took over the professorship for zoology at the University of Koblenz-Landau.

Fischer is married and has two children.

Scientific work

Fischer and his working group at the University of Greifswald did research mainly in the field of evolutionary ecology. He placed a focus on life history evolution , reproductive biology and temperature adjustments. Also population and nature conservation biological as well as behavioral ecological topics received attention. As a study organisms were primarily butterflies tropical and temperate latitudes, but also birds, amphibians and other animal groups. The most recent projects dealt with hormone physiology, temperature stress resistance, temperature-induced plasticity, reproduction and resource allocation. To date, Fischer has over 160 scientific publications.

Promotions and prizes

In 1995/1996, Fischer received the scholarship for species and biotope protection Rhineland-Palatinate from the Ministry for Environment and Forests of Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1998 to 2000 his doctorate was funded by a grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . For this work he was awarded the Horst Wiehe Dissertation Prize of the German Zoological Society in Osnabrück in 2001, which is awarded every two years . From 2001 to 2003 he was an Emmy Noether fellow of the DFG. Subsequently, until 2007, Fischer took over the leadership of a junior research group of the program. The funding was continued until 2009. From 2014 to September 2017, Fischer was the coordinator and spokesman for the DFG-funded graduate school Biological reactions to new and changing environmental conditions (RESPONSE) at the University of Greifswald.

Fonts (selection)

  • together with Konrad Fiedler: Sex-related differences in reaction norms in the butterfly Lycaena tityrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) . In: Oikos . tape 90 , no. 2 , 2000, pp. 372-380 , doi : 10.1034 / j.1600-0706.2000.900218.x .
  • together with Isabell Karl, Susann A. Janowitz: Altitudinal life-history variation and thermal adaptation in the copper butterfly Lycaena tityrus . In: Oikos . tape 117 , no. 5 , 2008, p. 778-788 , doi : 10.1111 / j.0030-1299.2008.16522.x .
  • together with Thorin L. Geister, Matthias W. Lorenz, Klaus H. Hoffmann: Adult nutrition and butterfly fitness: effects of diet quality on reproductive output, egg composition, and egg hatching success . In: Frontiers in Zoology . tape 5 , no. 10 , 2008, doi : 10.1186 / 1742-9994-5-10 .
  • together with Isabell Karl: Why get big in the cold? Towards a solution to a life-history puzzle . In: Oecologia . tape 155 , no. 2 , 2008, p. 215–225 , doi : 10.1007 / s00442-007-0902-0 .
  • together with Thorin L. Geister, Matthias W. Lorenz, Klaus H. Hoffmann: Effects of the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 on female reproduction and juvenile hormone biosynthesis in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus and the butterfly Bicyclus anynana . In: The Journal of Experimental Biology . tape 11 , no. 10 , 2008, p. 1587-1093 , doi : 10.1242 / jeb.016725 .
  • together with Anneke Dierks: Feeding responses and food preferences in the tropical, fruit-feeding butterfly, Bicyclus anynana . In: Journal of Insect Physiology . tape 54 , no. 9 , 2008, p. 805–811 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jinsphys.2008.07.008 .
  • together with Thorin L. Geister, Matthias W. Lorenz, Klaus H. Hoffmann: Energetics of embryonic development: effects of temperature on egg and hatchling composition in a butterfly . In: Journal of Comparative Physiology B . tape 179 , no. 1 , 2009, p. 87-98 , doi : 10.1007 / s00360-008-0293-5 .
  • together with Tobias T. Kehl: Larval starvation reduces responsiveness to feeding stimuli and does not affect feeding preferences in a butterfly . In: Journal of Insect Physiology . tape 58 , no. 7 , 2012, p. 1028-1035 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jinsphys.2012.05.008 .
  • together with Caroline M. Nieberding, Marjo Saastamoinen, Cerisse E. Allen, Erika A. Wallin, Erik Hedenström, Paul M. Brakefield: Cracking the olfactory code of a butterfly: the scent of aging . In: Ecology Letters . tape 15 , no. 5 , 2012, p. 415-424 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1461-0248.2012.01748.x .
  • together with Michael Klockmann, Elisabeth Reim: Strong negative effects of simulated heat waves in a tropical butterfly . In: Journal of Experimental Biology . tape 217 , 2014, p. 2892-2898 , doi : 10.1242 / jeb.106245 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Habilitation at the University of Bayreuth
  2. ↑ DFG press release on the RESPONSE research training group
  3. ^ Dissertation prizes from the Horst-Wiehe Foundation
  4. ↑ Emmy Noether Program

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and professor of animal ecology
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Marienberg