science – Caterpillars, trees and physics

Tabak schickt gefräßige Raupen zur Konkurrenz

2. February 2019

Hallo Ihr Lieben, es gibt wissenschaftliche Neuigkeiten! Hier wird meine Forschung an Tabakpflanzen kurz und anschaulich erklärt (danke, Tabea für den schönen Text!): Trickreiche Tabakpflanzen und dazu gibt es sogar ein live-Radiointerview mit mir bei der Sendung “Die Profis” von radioeins hier zum Nachhören: Radiointerview Gott, was war ich nervös 🙂 Aber irgendwie hat es auch … More Tabak schickt gefräßige Raupen zur Konkurrenz

Der 35C3 — Tag 1

27. December 2018

Hallo an alle, heute (also sehr gleich, also … eigentlich schon längst (>ლ)) geht es los zum C3 Kongress im schönen Leipzig. Es ist mein erster CCC Kongress und ich bin aufgeregt — so sehr, dass ich die letzten Tage vor lauter Überforderung nicht ins Programm schauen konnte und nun völlig planlos und unterschlafen einfach … More Der 35C3 — Tag 1

Inducible defenses

24. September 2018

Hello everybody, my next publication will be published in the American Naturalist in january 2019 🙂 with the title: “Delayed chemical defense: timely expulsion of herbivores reduces competition with neighboring plants” Pia Backmann, Volker Grimm, Gottfried Jetschke, Yue Lin, Matthijs Vos, Ian T. Baldwin, and Nicole M. van Dam (Jan 2019) The DOI will be … More Inducible defenses

Open Science

20. December 2017

Hello everyone, Today I want to write about how to practice open science. I have to admit that I was not really into that topic beforehand. I mean, in some occasions I was – as many scientists (and also non-scientists!) – bothered by the strict rules of big publishers like e.g. Wiley or Elsevier, when … More Open Science

How youtube inspired my research

26. July 2017

Hello everybody, Some weeks ago I found this video about designing AI creatures by carykh on Youtube: It is really worth watching, the guy who presents it is so enthusiastic about his “creatures” and it is really awesome how fast they learn! After watching this it motivated me to include Neural networks into … More How youtube inspired my research

The annual BES meeting in Edinburgh

25. December 2015

Arrival Day (Sunday) – Tales of Edinburgh we arrived in Edinburgh at about 13H00 on sunday afternoon. I was very lucky, because I had a splendid companionship: Mateus (a colleague from the UFZ) and me were in the same hotel and we shared an interest in the city and scotish culture – os instead of … More The annual BES meeting in Edinburgh

women in science – it is 2015..?

9. December 2015

I just received this link by a colleague per email. I can just say “OMG… :-O” : how (not) to present a career achievement award

The first iDiv conference

4. December 2015

This week (Dec. 02.-03.) I participated at the first iDiv conference in Leipzig. The range of topics was overwhelmingly broad for a single institute – the iDiv is diverse! Link to the conference 2015 In total, more than 110 talks were given and circa 45 posters presented! The talks were divided into 4 different sessions: … More The first iDiv conference

Movie of cluster dynamics

13. November 2015

Monodominance in tropical forests: How do monodominant clusters form? This movie shows a mixed, tropical forest with eight different tree species. One of them is a candidate monodominant species, meaning that this species tends to dominate large patches within mixed forest. In such a monodominant patch (or “cluster”), only one species is present. We developed … More Movie of cluster dynamics

Monodominance in Tropical Forests

8. April 2015

06.04.2016: My first “real” publication is now online! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 Monodominance in tropical forests: modelling reveals emerging clusters and phase transitions by: Martin Kazmierczak, Pia Backmann, et al. (My colleague Martin and me share the first authorship of this publication) If you are interested in reading it and you do not … More Monodominance in Tropical Forests