August 2022
Lioba Wilmes, a Bioanalytics student from the University of Coburg, has joined the Ziemert Lab to carry out her Bachelor Thesis. Welcome, Lioba, I’m excited about our cool project!
August 2022
A leaf beetle teams up with Fusarium as a bodyguard and, in return, the fungus hitches a ride to new host plants. Co-led with Hassan Salem and Noa Breitenbach, our latest work is out in Current Biology! Drawing by Julie Johnson.
July 2022
Another field season comes to an end. As always, thankful for the terrific team: the Mutualisms Research Group and Don Windsor! In the photo, Omaspides bistriata, Panama.
June 2022
Time to say farewell to a phenomenal young scientist I’ve been working with for the past year. Good luck Noa, and congratulations on a wonderful Bachelor Thesis!
January 2022
I recently started a new position as a CMFI Early Career Researcher at the Univeristy of Tübingen. I will be working closely with the Ziemert Lab. Soaking up everything natural product related!
November 2021
I tagged along with the Mutualisms Research Group and Don Windsor on another amazing trip to the tropics!
December 2019
We visited La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica with the Dentinger Lab to study fungus-growing ants. In the photo, an Apterostigma nest.
June 2019
Another GRC for Animal-Microbe Symbioses in the books! As always, it was a fantastic conference and yet another opportunity for a Kaltenpoth Lab reunion!
June 2019
I organized a session at ISCE 2019 conference: “The chemical ecology of symbiotic interactions”. Thankful to all the speakers who contributed to such a fun session.
March 2019
Delighted to receive a German Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support my research at Emory University!
February 2019
Happy Women and Girls in Science Day!! I am so happy I get to do science with this group of super talented ladies.
December 2018
Finishing the year with a highlight, the Escovopsis team at the Gerardo lab met a handful of experts in leaf cutter ants and their associated organisms. A great collaboration is in the horizon!
February 2018
I attended a coding course for evolutionary biologists in Berlin. Spent around 10 hours a day in front of a computer but had a lot of fun. And most importantly, learned a lot!
January 2018
Our first work describing the symbioses between leaf beetles and Stammera capleta has been published in Cell.
August 2017
I just joined the Gerardo Lab at Emory University! I am really excited about doing some amazing science with this wonderful team!
May 2018
I took a two week field trip to Panama with Hassan Salem and Don Windsor. Beetles, beetles, beetles everywhere!
July 2017
On the 12th of July 2017, I became a Dr!!! I am sad for what I am leaving behind in Jena, but excited about what the future has prepared for me!
June 2017
Wrapped up a wonderful GRC meeting with past and current Kaltenpoth labbies!
March 2017
The gut microbiota of the pine weevil can degrade plant secondary metabolites! Read all about it in Molecular Ecology.
January 2017
Our work on leaf beetles and their symbiont has been mentioned in Science along the amazing work of great scientists!
August 2016
Together with my dad, I visited for the first time (shame on me) the Natural History Museum in Madrid, Spain. We really enjoyed the exhibit about evolution!
August 2016
Had a wonderful time attending the Evolution conference in Austin, Texas!
October 2015
Together with Hassan Salem, I visited Micropia in Amsterdam, the first microbe museum in the world!
August 2015
My work on the gut bacterial community of the pine weevil is live in Molecular Ecology.
February 2015
Hassan and I visited Tristan Otto in Berlin’s Natural History Museum, the one and only real T. rex skeleton in Europe!
