Our Collaborators

Hanna Hartikainen

My research focuses on the genetic underpinnings of host-​parasite interactions. We combine genomics and experimental approaches to investigate how host and parasite traits co-​evolve and what implications this has for epidemiology.

After having been a group leader for several years in the Aquatic Ecology & Co-Evolution group I still supervise students as a close collaborator even though I joined the University of Nottingham in 2019.  

My projects in the Aquatic Ecology & Co-Evolution Group are discribed here, for further information on my research interests please see my Downloadwebpagevertical_align_bottom  at the University of Nottinham.

Contact

Room B79 Life Sciences Building
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK
+44 1158287479

Otto Seppälä

My main research interest are host-​parasite interactions in variable environments, interactions among coinfecting parasites, natural selection on immune defence traits as well as host manipulation by parasites. After several years as a group leader in the Aquatic Ecology & Co-Evolution Group I moved on to be the head of the working group "Aquatic Evolutionary Ecology" in the Research Department for Limnology of the University of Innsbruck, based in Mondsee, Austria. I however still maintain projects and supervise students in the ETH group.

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Contact

Research Department for Limnology, Mondsee
University of Innsbruck
Mondseestrasse 9
A-5310 Mondsee

Austria

+43 512 507-50207

 

Curt Lively

is a Distinguished Professor in Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

He studies topics in evolutionary/behavioral ecology like host-parasite coevolution, the evolutionary maintenance of sex, the evolution of parasite virulence, the effects of genetic diversity on disease spread, mate choice, and the social behavior of microbes.

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Anja Felmy

works as an evolutionary biologist in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. She has a strong interests in life-history and mating-system evolution, behavioural and evolutionary ecology, population and quantitative genetics as well as conservation biology. With her Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship she currently empirically tests the "paradox of evolutionary stasis" with the Trinidadian guppy as a model system.

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Jess Stephenson

is an Assistant Professor in Disease Ecology in the Department of Biology Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

She is interested in factors that influence infectious disease transmission in natural populations.She studies how biotic and abiotic conditions modify social behaviour leading to conspecific parasite transmission and how changes may drive evolutionary change in both the host and parasite.

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Anssi Karvonen

is a Senior Lecturer in the Natural Resources and Environment Department of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Anssi is interested in why some parasites and co-infections are more harmful than others. Thus, he studies the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions, particularly of multiple parasite infections, parasite virulence, and interactions between aquaculture fish and their parasites.

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Isa Blasco Costa

works as a Research Associate in the Department of Genetics & Evolution of the Natural History Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. Isa is interested in the taxonomy, ​phylogeography and evolutionary ecology of trematodes. She looks closely at their life histories, the interaction between them and their hosts, and how this interaction influences population genetics and the diversitfication of the parasite.

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