Research Portfolios

Chemical Ecology

Chemical signals involved in plant-insect interactions

Prof. Dr. Ted Turlings, BeNeFri, University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Biology

Plants under attack by herbivores initiate the production and release of volatiles that are attractive to the natural...

Plant Ecological Genomics

Genome dynamics and reproductive isolation

Dr. Christian Parisod, BeNeFri, University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Biology

Our research is mainly focused on the impact of Transposable Elements - or jumping genes - on polyploid evolution (i.e....

Evolutionary Biology

Limits to the adaptive evolution process

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Willi, BeNeFri, University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Biology

The process of adaptive evolution – in the simplest models – occurs as long as selection acts on the population and...