Category Archives: Graduation

Graduation Hannah Weigand

On January 12th 2018 Hannah Weigand defended successfully her PhD thesis “Improving, applying and evaluating ddRAD sequencing for the detection of local adaptation to anthropogenic stressors in stream macroinvertebrates”. The thesis was part of the Junior Research Group project “GeneStream” funded by the Kurt Eberhard Bode-Foundation

Members of the examination committee were Prof. Dr. Daniel Hoffmann, Dr. Joe Hoffman (University of Bielefeld) and Prof. Dr. Florian Leese. Chair of the Committee was Prof. Dr. Angela Sandmann.

Photo: Florian Leese, Hannah Weigand, Joe Hoffman

Graduation Martina Weiss

Congrats to Martina Weiss for the successful defence of her PhD thesis entitled “Investigating patterns and processes underlying cryptic diversity and small-scale population structure in hololimnic freshwater species”. The project was part of the “GeneStream” project funded by the Kurt Eberhard Bode Foundation.

Examiners were PD Dr. Steffen Pauls (Senckenberg, Frankfurt) and Florian Leese. Chair of the committe was Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schreiber.

Foto: Florian Leese, Martina Weiss und Steffen Pauls.

Successful graduation Jan Macher

Congrats to Jan Macher for successfully defending his PhD thesis on the “Development, testing and application of DNA-based methods to study freshwater invertebrate biodiversity under stress”.

Examiner were Prof. Dr. Ralph Tollrian (Ruhr University of Bochum, Prof. Dr. Jens Boenigk and Prof. Dr. Florian Leese. Chair of the committee was Prof. Dr. Daniel Hering.Photo: PhD committee and candidate. F.r.t.l.: Daniel Hering, Jens Boenigk, Florian Leese, Jan Macher, Ralph Tollrian