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MSc José Herrera Russert

José Herrera, MSc

PhD Student

Phone: +49 641 99-37602

Email: Jose.Herrera-Russert@agrar.uni-giessen.de

Room: B330

Building: iFZ

 

Short CV

Since 02/2018 Doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Georg Petschenka
2014-2015 Master´s in management and conservation of Mediterranean biodiversity, University of Murcia, Spain
Master´s Thesis: Phylogeny and Phylogeography of Cephalota deserticoloides (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
2010-2014   Bachelor's in Biotechnology, University of Zaragoza, Spain


Research Interests

I am a life-long insect enthusiast with a special fondness for insect diversity and ecological interactions, both at the population and at a more mechanistic level. My background includes elements of population ecology and population genetics, and the current focus of my work is on the various strategies employed by plant-feeding insects to overcome the potential toxicity of their host plants.

I would like to put this work into an ecological and evolutionary context by comparing relevant taxa, populations and host plants using a variety of approaches, including chemical analyses and assessment of population relationships and dynamics.

I am currently beginning to investigate guilds of closely related Noctuid moths which exhibit both aposematism and camouflage while feeding on the same plant. I am also interested in other taxa such as Lygaeinae bugs for future, more population-based, approaches.