Zebrafinken
 

Group Leader

Nikolaus von Engelhardt

Maternal effects

Parent-offspring interactions

Social interactions

Phenotypic plasticity during  development

Behavioural endocrinology

Behavioural genetics

nvengelhardt
(at)gmx.de

Postdocs

Vivian Goerlich (former website)
Evolution of transgenerational effects viviangoerlich
(at)gmx.de

PhD students

Tim Ruploh
Developmental shaping of behavioural phenotypes tim.ruploh
(at)uni-bielefeld.de
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Social environment, physiology and behaviour across generations in quail  
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Social and hormonal influences on behaviour during adolescence in zebra finches  
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Master students

projects available

please contact me:

Potential projects:
- parent-offspring coadaptation: begging and feeding

- maternal effects in relation to season and social context

- personalities in zebra finches

- behavioural genetics in zebra finches and quail

- behavioural endocrinology in zebra finches, quail, guinea pigs, buzzards, seals or other species

 

Bachelor students

Serena Schmidt

Social influences on behaviour and hormones in zebra finches

 
Leonie Greiner

Relationship of saliva and feather testosterone levels to plumage polymorphism in buzzards ?

 
Meike Scheller

Relationship of saliva and feather corticosterone levels to plumage polymorphism in buzzards

 
Sarah Golüke

Coding of information in the begging behaviour of zebra finches

 
projects available

please contact me:

Potential projects:
- parent-offspring coadaptation: begging and feeding

- maternal effects in relation to season and social context

- personalities in zebra finches

- behavioural genetics in zebra finches or quail

- behavioural endocrinology in zebra finches, quail, guinea pigs, buzzards, seals or other species

 

technicians

Jennifer Loeffler
Hormone assays, PCR for sexing and microsatellites jennifer.loeffler
(at)uni-bielefeld.de

Former Group Members

   
University of Bielefeld
Anjuli Barber (current website)

Effects of the photoperiod on reproduction in zebra finches

(master's thesis, continued as PhD student in Vienna)
 
Sarah Schmid (current website)
 

Effects of the photoperiod on sexual maturation in zebra finches

(master's thesis, continued as PhD student at Bayreuth University)
 
Ingo Catalano

Effects of the season of birth on personalities in zebra finches

(bachelor thesis)
 
   
University of Cambridge
Rachel Wigmore  

Inheritance of sexual traits in zebra finches

(part II project, continued as a consultant)

 
Dave Hollinshead   Inheritance of sexual traits in zebra finches

(part II project)

 

Andrea Turner


Food allocation by parents to nestling zebra finches: the influence of nestling behaviour and parental decisions

(part II project)

 

Julia Riggs


Differential resource provisioning in zebra finches: the influence of nestling behaviour, hierarchy and parental sex on food allocation

(part II project)

 
   
University of Groningen

Renske Hekman
  Parentage assignment using microsatellites in zebra finches  

Rie Henriksen


a) Effects of yolk testosterone on male zebra finches

b) Metabolism of steroid hormones in avian eggs and in faeces

(continued as PhD student at Groningen University)

 
Ellis Mulder
 

a) Effects of food quality on sex ratios in zebra finches

b) Determination of egg testosterone content by radioimmunoassy

(continued as technician at Groningen University)

 
Anja Jansen  

Influence of paternal leg-band colour on the development of mate preferences in zebra finches

(continued as PhD student at Twente University)

 

Erwin Hemmen


Effect of male ring colours on offspring primary and secondary sex ratios  
Rick Bruintjes
 

Effect of female preference on sex ratio and offspring development

(continued as Postdoc at the University of Bern)

 
Alessandra Rossi  

Effects of hormone treatment (17-beta-oestradiol) on the second reproductive performance and sex ratio of zebra finches)

(continued at the ministry of the environment, Italy)

 

 
Grietje Zijlstra   The influence of a female hormone on reproduction of zebra finches  

 



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