Group Members

Junchen Deng- Master student

Junchen will join the group this Summer with a project investigating some aspects of the biogeography of Wolbachia in species of Damselfly common in South Sweden. He will be co-supervised by Prof. Erik Svenson from Lund University.

Cornelia Martel - Master student

Cornelia is interested in phylogenetics. She is joining the group this year to investigate ancestry and the potential ecological routes of transfer of Wolbachia between different species of a unique insect community.

Past Members

Isa Bengzon - Bachelor thesis

Isa completed her Bachelor studies at the Lund University, with a project in the group investigating strain diversity in the Wolbachia infecting Russian Melitaea butterflies. LinkedIn.

Meri Lahteenaro - Summership

Meri joined the group in the spring 2017 to complete her training program in Ecology. She investigated the protective role of overwintering nests in the Glanville fritillary  butterfly, Melitaea cinxia. webPage. The results of her project were published in the Journal Ecology and Evolution.

Carolina Sánchez Carpena - ERASMUS

Carolina joined the group in March 2017, for a six month intership. She was an ERASMUS student from Spain. She tested the effect of Wolbachia in Hyposoter horticola in the presence of a fungal pathogen.

Zana Sinko - Professional school lab trainee

Zana worked in the group between April and June 2017. He was in charge of DNA extraction, PCR and qPCRs in the laboratory. He then completing his degree as a laboratory technician.

Ekaterina Pylsy - Professional school lab trainee

Kate completed her school training with us between August and November 2016.

She worked on the microbiota of four arthropods from the Island of Teixeira, Azores. She tested whether habitat degradation is affecting host microbiota composition.

Opinnäytetyö-Ekaterina Pylsy.docx (In Finnish, with Abstract in English)

Shravya Kadali - Master student

Shravya worked on a joint project with Dr. Ayco Tack from the Stockholm University. She was investigating the symbiont community within the insect food-web of oak trees. She is now pursuing her PhD studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Minna Kohonen - Summership

Minna joined the group in the summer 2015 to complete her training program in Ecology. She was in charge of investigating the potential for Wolbachia to protect its host against hyperparasitoid attacks, through both intensive field and lab-work. The results of her project were published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

Szabolcs Péterfi  - Professional school lab trainee

Szabolcs worked in the lab between February and June 2015. His project investigated geographical and temporal variations of Microsporidia infections in natural populations of the butterfly Melitaea cinxia, in the Åland island.