Susanne Dobler

Susanne Dobler (born 1956 ) is a German zoologist specializing in molecular evolutionary biology . She is a professor at the University of Hamburg and was President of the German Zoological Society from 2015 to 2016 . Her research focus is on the evolution of defense mechanisms of food plants against phytophagous insects.

life and work

Susanne Dobler completed her biology studies from 1983 to 1990 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and obtained her diploma with a thesis with Otto von Helversen . She then went to the University of Basel and wrote her doctoral thesis with Martine Rowell-Rahier , where she worked, among other things, on chemical ecology and the production of cardenolids and pyrrolizidine alkaloids of leaf beetle larvae depending on the defense mechanisms of food plants. As a postdoc, she first moved to the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1993 in the group of Jacques M. Pastells and then from 1994 to 1995 to the University of Colorado in the group of Brian D. Farrell and MD Bowers. Together with Farrell, she worked on the choice of food plants for closely related leaf beetle species and the coevolution between plants and phytophagous leaf beetles.

From 1996 to 2002 Dobler was a university assistant at the Institute for Biology at the University of Freiburg , where she also received her habilitation in 2000 . She stayed as a university lecturer in Freiburg until 2003 and was then appointed professor for molecular evolutionary biology at the University of Hamburg . More recent work continues to deal with the chemical defense reaction of plants against phytophagous insects such as bugs and beetles.

Susanne Dobler has been on the board of the German Zoological Society since 2011 and was President of the Society from 2015 to 2016 as the successor to Constance Scharff .

supporting documents

1. ↑ S. Dobler, M. Rowell-Rahier: Production of cardenolides versus sequestration of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in larvae of Oreina species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Journal of Chemical Ecology 20, 1994, pp. 555-568. doi: 10.1007 / BF02059597 .
2. ^ S. Dobler, BD Farrell: Host use evolution in Chrysochus milkweed beetles: evidence from behavior, population genetics and phylogeny. In: Molecular Evolution 8, 1999, pp. 1297-1307.
3. ^ Susanne Dobler on the homepage of the University of Hamburg; accessed on May 11, 2020.
4. ^ S. Dobler, S. Dalla, V. Wagschal, AA Agrawal: Community-wide convergent evolution in insect adaptation to toxic cardenolides by substitutions in the Na, K-ATPase. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sviences USA 109 (32), 2012, pp. 13040-13045. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1202111109 .
5. ↑ G. Petschenka, S. Fandrich, N. Sander, V. Wagschal, M. Boppré, S. Dobler: Stepwise evolution of resistance to toxic cardenolides via genetic substitutions in the Na ⁺ / K ⁺ -ATPase of milkweed butterflies (lepidoptera: Danaini). In: Evolution 67, 2013, pp. 2753-2761. doi: 10.1111 / evo.12152 .
6. ↑ C. Bramer, S. Dobler, J. Deckert, M. Stemmer, G. Petschenka: Na ⁺ / K ⁺ -ATPase resistance and cardenolide sequestration: basal adaptations to host plant toxins in the milkweed bugs (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Lygaeinae) . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1805), 2015. doi: 10.1098 / rspb.2014.2346 .
7. ↑ Board of the German Zoological Society - overview on the website of the German Zoological Society; accessed on May 11, 2020.

Web links

• Susanne Dobler on the homepage of the University of Hamburg