Dr. Ulrich Rainer Ernst

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

Animal Behaviour; Behavioural Ecology; Social Evolution; Sociobiology; Epigenetics; Physiology; Social Insects
Animal Behaviour; Behavioural Ecology; Social Evolution; Sociobiology; Epigenetics; Physiology; Peptidomics; Proteomics; Social Insects; Ants; Bumblebees; Honeybees; Blochmannia
Chemical Ecology; Proteomics; Peptidomics; Population Genomics
Ants; Bumblebees; Honeybees

Academic Education
04/2018 - 02/2021	Postdoc (University of Münster): Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of social niche choice and construction during colony founding in the ant Pogonomyrmex californicus
03/2016 - 02/2017	Postdoc (IOCB Prague, CZ): The role of exocrine peptides in insect societies
02/2008 - 01/2016	PhD student (KU Leuven, BE): The Honeybee as a model to study Worker policing, Epigenetics, and Ageing
10/1999 - 05/2006	studies: Biology, Chemistry, German Literature and Linguistics, Pedagogics (University Konstanz, University Tübingen, Queen's University Belfast)
Functions and Memberships
since 03/2020	Equal Opportunities Commission, Department Biology (deputy)
since 02/2019	Senate’s commission for equal opportunities
since 02/2019	Rectorate’s commission for evaluation (deputy)

Publications

Evolutionary genomics of socially polymorphic populations of <i>Pogonomyrmex californicus</i>. Errbii M, Ernst U, Lajmi A, Gadau J, Schrader L (2024) In: BMC Biology, 22. doi:10.1186/s12915-024-01907-z Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Conserved worker policing in African carpenter ants with drastically different egg chemotypes Büllesbach, Jan; Rinke, Janina; Reuter, Leonie; Thomas, Jurian M. M.; Hartmann, Vivien; Pohl, Marius; Gadau, Jürgen; Ernst, Ulrich R. R. (2023) In: Evolutionary Ecology, 37(5). doi:10.1007/s10682-023-10245-5 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Harbouring Blochmannia incurs costs: a trade-off between the necessity of the obligate primary endosymbiont for brood development and its costs for adult carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Preuss, A.; Czuppon, P.; Ernst,U.R.; Gadau,J. (2023) In: Myrmecological news, 33. doi:10.25849/myrmecol.news_033:211 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice and Niche Conformance Trappes Rose; Nematipour Bezad; Kaiser Marie I.; Krohs Ulrich; van Benthem Koen J.; Ernst Ulrich R.; Gadau Jürgen; Korsten Peter; Kurtz Joachim; Schielzeth Holger; Schmoll Tim; Takola Elina (2022) In: BioScience, 72(6), 538-548. doi:10.1093/biosci/biac023 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Kostenlose Behandlung? Ernst U, Preuss A (2020) In: ((Bitte Journal prüfen)), 28(3), 54-55. Non-scientific contribution (journal) \| Published

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Projects

Queen pheromones in bumblebees and honeybees Duration: since 01/03/2020 Type of project: Own resources project
Worker policing in Camponotus maculatus Duration: since 01/03/2019 Type of project: Own resources project
CRC TRR 212 - C04: Proximate and ultimate mechanisms of social niche choice and construction during colony founding in the ant Pogonomyrmex californicus Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2021 \| 1st Funding period Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted outside University of Münster

Prizes

Postdoctoral scholarship Awarded by: IOCB, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Science (CAS) Award given to: Ernst, Ulrich Announced at: 01/01/2016 Type of distinction: Scholarship
PhD scholarship Awarded by: IWT (Flemish agency for Innovation by Science and Technology) Award given to: Ernst, U Announced at: 01/01/2008 Type of distinction: Scholarship