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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