Lena Wilfert

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Lena Katrin Wilfert , also Lena Katrin Bayer-Wilfert (born January 31, 1978 ) is a German biologist and professor at the University of Ulm who conducts scientific research in the fields of evolutionary biology , population genomics and infection ecology .

Life

Lena Wilfert graduated from the University of Bayreuth with a degree in biology . In 2006 she did her doctorate with Paul Schmid-Hempel at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich with the thesis A population genomics approach to host defense in a bumblebee-protozoan model system to Dr. sc.

She then worked in the UK as a post-doctoral student at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at Edinburgh University , in the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University and at the Center for Ecology and Conservation at Exeter University .

Her scientific work focuses on research into the ecology and development of host-parasite interactions as well as the impact of agri-environmental measures on the dynamics of disease transmission in pollinators . In October 2010, Wilfert received a Dorothy Hodgkin - Fellowship of the Royal Society . With an international research team, they examined the relationship between the spread of the varroa mite , a parasite of the honeybee , and the transmission and spread of wing deformation virus ( english deformed wing virus (DWV) ) in honeybees, wild bees and bumble bees from evolutionary biology and infection ecological point of view. As a result, the study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology in 2015 also showed that knowledge of the health dangers to honey bees and their active control by beekeepers are of great importance for the fact that the populations of the Wild bees and bumblebees can be adequately protected.

In October 2018, Wilfert accepted a call to Ulm University, where she took on a professorship at the Institute for Evolutionary Ecology and Nature Conservation Genomics.

Awards and honors

  • 2010 Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship from the Royal Society

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ETH Zurich (ed.): A population genomics approach to host defense in a bumblebee-protozoan model system . Zurich 2006, doi : 10.3929 / ethz-a-005281124 (English).
  2. ^ Royal Society announces prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships for 2010. Royal Society, September 24, 2010, accessed July 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ With the mite taxi to the neighboring host. Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany , accessed on July 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Robyn Manley, Mike Boots, Lena Wilfert: REVIEW: Emerging viral disease risk to pollinating insects: ecological, evolutionary and anthropogenic factors . In: Journal of Applied Ecology . January 16, 2015, doi : 10.1111 / 1365-2664.12385 (English).
  5. ↑ Helen Briggs: Disease threat to wild bees. BBC News, January 19, 2015, accessed July 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilfert, Lena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bayer-Wilfert, Lena Katrin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1978