Jens Rolff
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Current Research
Curriculum vitae
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Current research
My research interests revolve around ecological immunology and host-parasite interactions and using insects such flour beetles, crickets and damselflies as study organisms.
- long-lasting immune responses in insects and the evolution of antimicrobial resistance (Haine et al 2008 Science 322, 1257)
I have just started on a five year project funded by the European Research Council: ‘Multidrug’ resistance and the evolutionary ecology of insect immunity’
Meet the team: Adam Dobson, Quentin Geissmann, Paul Johnston, Jennie Garbutt
- Trade-offs between immune function and life histories, costs of using the immune system (Rolff et al 2005, Evolution, 59, 1844)
- Sexual dimorphism in immune function: the basic idea is that males invest less into immune defence than females, simply because females maximize fitness via longevity but males via mating rate (Nunn et al 2009 Phil Trans Roy Soc B 364, 61)
I have also edited two books and I am an associate editor of Ecological Entomology
Book reviews on Insect Infection and Immunity: TREE, Integrative & Comparative Biology and Myrmecological News
Curriculum vitae
| 2006-present | Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2003-2006 | NERC Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2001-2003 | Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2000-2001 | Postdoctoral research fellowship (DFG), Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany and University of Sheffield, UK |
| 1999 | Postdoctoral research associate, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK |
| 1999 | PhD, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1996 | Diploma in Biology, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany |