People

Jamie Winternitz

Jamie is the Principal Investigator of the research lab. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the University of Hamburg in Evolutionary Immunogenomics, Institute for Animal Cell and Systems Biology. Her interests include genetics of disease resistance in natural populations, sexual selection and parasite-mediated natural selection, and the interaction between animal behavior, life history traits and immunity. She is committed to increasing diversity of researchers in science and to the integration and advancement of women in science.

Nadine Schubert

Nadine is a doctoral student at the Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, jointly supervised by Prof. Barbara Caspers. Nadine is working on unraveling the genetic basis of social communication in banded mongooses, focusing on MHC genes. For her Master's, she investigated movement behavior of European hedgehogs in relation to the amount of artificial light at night.

Contact: nadine.schubert(at)uni-bielefeld.de

Lab Alumni

Halil Mert Solak

Halil was a Master’s student at the Department of Biology, Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey, jointly supervised by Dr. Alexey Yanchukov (2019). He investigated altitudinal effects on the evolution of globin gene clusters and immune responses of Spalax xanthodon (Anatolian blind mole-rat).

Personal website: www.hmertsolak.com