October 2024: This years retreat was a full success, with an intensive exchange of thoughts. Defining what PII stands for and where we want not only to excel at but also how we want to get there with this great team.
May 2024: If you wondered what some of PIIs most pressing questions are, have a listen into the 31st episode of the Beesknees Podcast, where Sara Leonhardt answers a couple of these: https://thebeesknees.website/bee-nutrition/
May 2024: We are happy to welcome Jacek Jachuła as a Guest Researcher at the Lab to spark further fruitful cooperation.
April 2024: Preliminary program for our summer seminar is out! Join us for exciting talks followed by snacks and drinks and personal exchange with the speaker and colleagues every Thursday at 16.00. In addition to last years seminar we also offer a zoom link for online participation. See program.
Fall 2023: We welcome Franziska Mück as new team member who will do her PhD in the new BlüDiv project!
Summer 2023: We welcome a new team member Gaya ten Kate who will do her PhD in the new CityBees project! We are also excited to host Ashlyn from Canada who has joined the ever growing REASSEMBLY pollination group :-)
May 2023: Our summer seminar has started. Please join us for exciting talks followed by snacks and drinks and personal exchange with the speaker and colleagues every Thursday at 16.00. See program.
March 2023: We welcome our new team member Vidisha Bansal as a PhD student! She will investigate the role of intraspecific variation in floral traits for interactions between plants and pollinators.
November 2022: New PhD position available with our group. For details, see. Please, apply until December 31st.
July 2022: LOTS OF EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING. Kenneth got a DBU fellowship for his PhD work on microplastic effects on bees - congrats!!! We have two young visiting scientists who joined our group: Ismail from Turkey and Kelsey from the US! And: Bayern1 radio station as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported about our "Insektentag an der Uni..."
May 2022: 80 students from elementary and primary schools visiting us at uni to discover more about the fascinating world of insects - "Insektentag an der Uni..."
April 2022: Start of our SOLS Systems Summer Seminar - Sustainibility & Diversity: from Observations and Basic Research to Applied Science - with an exciting list of speakers: Program
January 2022: We welcome Ugo Mendes Diniz as new team member! He will set out to disentangle pollination networks in the wet tropics in Ecuador :-)
August 2021: We welcome a new PhD student in our new project on the reassembly of tropical plant-pollinator along a restoration gradient as part of the new research group FOR 5207 (Reassembly).
May 2021: Not mowing in May? Interview with ZDF on whether or not reduced mowing in our backyards can help bees. Turned into an interesting discussion on insect decline, wicked problems and the role of our (global) society: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/bienen-maehfreier-mai-100.html
27th of April 2021: Tonight (18:00) online talk (in German) at TUM@Freising: "Bienen vor dem Aus? Kann man unsere Bestäuber noch retten?" - looking forward to joint discussion on importance of structural diversity with Peter Annighöfer! wzw.tum.d/index.php
22nd of April 2021: Radio interview on bumblebees with Antenne Bayern!
April 2021: NutriB2 and MacroBEEs fieldwork started!
11th - 12th March 2021: Our team organized the first virtual pollination phytochemistry discussion meeting, a mixture of talks from experts in the field and of discussions on topics related to floral resource chemistry, methods and nutritional & sensory ecology. For details see (download pdf). If you would like to read the notes or watch the talks, just send us a note.
February 2021: Check out our new paper on Mutualisms and (a)symmetries in plant-pollinator interactions - published in Current Biology:https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cTab_LsQSOqDF.
6-8th Nov 2020: Nice presentations of several team members at the virtual SCAPE 2020 meeting: scape-pollination.org/scape-2020/ - lots of vivid discussions and questions afterwards!
Okt 2nd 2020: Fabian defended his PhD thesis and received a summa cum laude for his work. Congratulations!
