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Above: Courtney Gorman, Trent University common garden

Below: Yan Li sampling anthers from Mimulus guttatus, University of Konstanz

PhD students

(at University of Konstanz)

Courtney Gorman
(funded through research grant from German Science Foundation - DFG)
PhD, University of Konstanz 2021

Yan Li
(funded by the China Scholarship Council - CSC)
PhD, University of Konstanz 2019

Samuel Carleial
(funded by the Brazilian Ciência sem Fronteiras program by CNPq)
PhD, University of Konstanz 2017

With Mark van Kleunen: Jasmin Herden (funded by the German Science Foundation DFG). Collaborative project of the van Kleunen group in Konstanz and the group of Prof. Jasmin Joshi (University of Potsdam), with whom another PhD student worked on the same project [Silvia Eckert].

Ongoing collaborations


Mating system evolution

Marcel Dorken - Trent University, Peterborough, Canada (reproductive isolation and drift in Arabidopsis lyrata)

Magne Friberg - University of Uppsala (evolution of floral scent after the evolution of selfing)

Yan Li - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing
(loss of self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis lyrata)

Barbara Mable - University of Glasgow (reproductive isolation and drift in Arabidopsis lyrata)


Polyploid genetics

Patrick Meirmans - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Filip Kolar - Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic


Former Master & Bachelor students


Master students (and current occupation if known)


University of Amsterdam (1 year projects)

    • Camillo Berenos. 2004. Tetraploid inheritance in Rorippa. Now project manager at Enza Zaden, Netherlands.

    • Tessa Wiegman. 2004. Growth differences between diploid and tetraploid cytopes in Roripppa.

    • Caspar Venhuis. 2004. Differences in herbivory between different diploid and polyploid cytopes in Roripppa.


University of Konstanz (6 to 9 month projects)

    • Karoline Jetter - Unraveling the genetic basis of the breakdown of self-incompatibility. Now PhD student at the University of Ulm (with Prof. Christian Riedel)

    • Jens Joschinski. 2013. Differences in growth and resistance between outcrossers and selfers in Arabidopis lyrata. Now postdoctoral researcher in Ghent, Belgium.

    • Nadja Köhler. 2018. Is self-incompatibility associated with specific S-linked gene sequences? Now Exhibit designer at Deutsches Museum in Munich.

    • Rachel Höfer. 2018. (Zulassungsarbeit) Nutzen heimische Pflanzengesellschaften Allelopathie, um sich gegen Invasion zu schützen?


Bachelor Students


University of Konstanz (3 to 4 month projects)

    • Caroline Wackerhagen. 2012. Is shade-avoidance plasticity limited by herbivory?

    • Michael Röckle. 2012. Effects of in- and outbreeding in native and exotic populations of Mimulus guttatus

    • Carola Dostal. 2014. Testing post-introduction evolution of pollinator-attraction traits: using Brassica nigra as a model system

    • Felicitas Oehler. 2016. Potential (side) effects of bioeffectors on native German grassland species

    • Karoline Jetter. 2017. Early abortion after incompatible pollination

    • Julia Berit Kern. 2018. Allelopathic interactions between and among native and invasive grassland species

    • Caroline Rabung. 2018. Using standardized photography to study the inheritance of the selfing syndrome and self incompatibility

    • Lara Plattner. 2020. Evaluation of alternatives for peat-based planting substrates


University of Glasgow (2 month projects)

    • Brian Hunter and Benjamin Shaw. 2009. S-linked genetic load in Arabidopsis lyrata. Genetics Society Summer students.