Sybille Unsicker

A very successful doctoral thesis on the consequences of #biodiversity for #plantvolatile emission has now been rewarded with another great paper. Congratulations Pamela!

16.01.2026 13:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Huge congratulations to Pamela Medina van Berkum on successfully defending her PhD! Supervised by @sunsicker.bsky.social and Jonathan Gershenzon, her work on how plant biodiversity shapes chemical defenses bridges ecology, chemistry, and evolution. Pam is now part of Sybille’s group at @uni-kiel.de.

07.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Pamela Medina-van Berkum: Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defences in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations 2024 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Pamela Medina-van Berkum discusses her paper “Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defences in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations…

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize!⭐

Pamela Medina-van Berkum explored whether introduced ribwort plantain populations differed from native populations in growth and chemical defence traits🛡️

02.04.2025 11:00 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Logo of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the GfÖ in Würzburg, Germany.

Fellow Ecologists,
The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September!
gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca...
@uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

02.04.2025 12:22 — 👍 33    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0

Tropical ecologists on Bluesky - where are you? Let's network.
go.bsky.app/5B14mCT
There's one by Emilio on plants too: go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

24.11.2024 17:02 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 8    📌 0

Warum koexistieren in artenreichen Wäldern so viele Baumarten und wie hängt dies mit bestimmten räumlichen Mustern der Baumarten zusammen? Ein vom #UFZ geleitetes internationales Team hat unerwartete Muster in der räumlichen Verteilung von Baumarten entdeckt. @nature.com
www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

27.02.2025 11:21 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dis...

Good news! 🌴 Reassembly at the #ECTE2025 conference in Amsterdam... and featured in MONGABAY in the same week:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

27.02.2025 21:51 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Seagrass Zostera marina in Baltic Sea showing blue carbon, photo credit Pekka Tuuri

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

19.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 58    🔁 59    💬 1    📌 3

I am thrilled that this study by my former PhD student and current postdoc Chrisin Walther is now published in Ecology Letters! Congratulations Tine!!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

27.02.2025 22:16 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0