Christine Heimes

Short presentation

My current research is focused on multi-species interactions and fitness effects on the involved species. In field trials with Barbarea vulgaris, a wild plant species native to Eurasia, I study the influence of a herbivore, the flea beetle Phyllotreta nemorum and an oomycete pathogen, Albugo candida, on fitness of Barbarea vulgaris.

In nature, however, plants are not only subjected to a single herbivore or pathogen. A combination of several biotic and abiotic factors may select for certain traits in plant populations and result in locally adapted populations. In a transplant experiment I test for local adaptation and natural selection in wild populations of Barbarea vulgaris.

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Education:

2010- dato PhD student at the Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2002-2009 Study of Biology at the University of Göttingen, Germany

Degree: Diplom-Biologin

1993- 2002 Ursulinengymnsium Werl, Germany

High school Graduation: Allgemeine Hochschulreife

Work Experience:

2007-2009 Undergraduate/graduate assistant at the Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2007 Undergraduate assistant at the Faculty of Geo Sciences and

Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany

2006 Undergraduate assistant at the Department of Plant Ecology,

Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University

2005 Internship at the Biological Research Station of the Centre

for Nature Conservation, University of Göttingen and the

University of Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia in Khonin Nuga, Mongolia (3 months)

2004 Internship at ABU (Arbeitsgemeinschaft biologischer Umweltschutz), Soest, Germany (4 weeks)