Profile
ACADEMIC EDUCATION & SCIENTIFIC CAREER
since 2015: Postdoctoral research fellow & lecturer in the Department for Morphology, Systematic and Evolutionary Biology at the JFB-Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
2014-2015: Postdoctoral research fellow & lecture in the Department of Entomology at the Zoological Museum at the University Hamburg, Germany
2011-2014: PhD in the Department of Molecular Evolutionary Biology at the Zoological Institute at the University Hamburg, Germany
2009-2011: Biological studies (Master of Science in Biology) at the University Hamburg, key areas: Evolution & Systematic
2005-2008: Biological studies (Bachelor of Science in Biology) at the University Hamburg, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Bramer, C., Dobler, S., Deckert, J., Stemmer, M., Petschenka, G. (2015). Na+/K+-ATPase resistance and cardenolide sequestration: two basal adaptations to host plant toxins in the milkweed bugs (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae: Lygaeinae), Proc. R. Soc. B, 282(1805)
Petschenka, G., Bramer, C., Pankoke, H., Dobler, S.(2011). Evidence for a deterrent effect of cardenolides on Nephila spiders. Basic and Applied Ecology, 12(3)
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Bramer, C., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2014). Evolution of Adaptations in Specialized Lygaeinae (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae). 5. Quadrenial Meeting of the International Heteropterists` Society (IHS), Washington DC., USA
Bramer, C., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2014). Evolution of adaptations to cardiac glycosides in the hemipteran subfamily Lygaeinae, Evolutionary biology workshop, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2013). Multiple adaptations of specialized Lygaeinae (Heeroptera, Lygaeidae): strategies to cope with host plant cardenolides. 106th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Munich, Germany
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2013). Evolution of multiple adaptations: How lygaeinae species cope with host plant toxins. College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (Entomology), Riverside, USA
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2013). Evolution of multiple adaptations: How lygaeinae species cope with host plant toxins. German Society of general and applied Entomology (DGaaE), Göttingen, Germany
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2012). Evolution of Cardenolide sequestration and resistance in lygaeid bugs. 28th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Chemical Ecology (ISCE), Vilnius, Lithuania
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2011). Amazing strategy: sequestration in lygaeid bugs as a retained ancestral character. German Society of general and applied Entomology (DGaaE), Berlin, Germany
POSTER
Bramer, C., Friedrich, F., Dobler, S. (2015). Evolution of a unique defence system in the Lygainae (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae). German Society of general and applied Entomology (DGaaE), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2012). Evolution of Cardenolide
sequestration and resistance in lygaeid bugs. 105th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Konstanz, Germany
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2011). Tolerance to cardenolides - a prevailing feature of lygaeid bugs. 104th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Saarbrücken, Germany
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2011). Tolerance to cardenolides - a prevailing feature of lygaeid bugs. 14. Symposium on Insect- Plant Interactions (SIP), Wageningen, Netherlands
Bramer, C., Petschenka, G., Deckert, J., Dobler, S. (2010). Red and black aposematism in lygaeid bugs - true warning or mean deception?. 103th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Hamburg, Germany
AWARDS
2014 - Izya Kerzhner Award (1. Platz), 5. Quadrenial Meeting of the International Heteropterists` Society (IHS), Washington DC., USA
2014 - Nils & Annemarie Møller Andersen Award, 5. Quadrenial Meeting of the International Heteropterists` Society (IHS), Washington DC., USA
2012 - 1st place Poster Price, 105th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Konstanz, Germany
2012 - Student travel award, 28th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Chemical Ecology (ISCE), Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 - 1st place Poster Price, 103th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society, Hamburg, Germany