Curriculum vitae


Dr. Rebecca Schulte

office:
University of Osnabrück
FB Biology/Chemistry
Behavioural Biology
Barbarastr. 11
D-49076 Osnabrück
phone: +49 (0)541 969 2458
fax: +49 (0)541 969 2862
e-mail: Rebecca.Schulte@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de


 

Education and Employment:  
since October 2008: Research associate in the Department of Behavioural Biology, University Osnabrück, Germany
2004 - 2008:


PhD thesis on the “Evolution of Host-Parasite Interactions in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans”, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster and Eberhard Karls-University Tübingen, Germany
(supervisors: Prof. Dr. H Schulenburg, Prof. Dr. NK Michiels)
2004:


Diploma thesis: “Paternal Inheritance in Parthenogens of the Planarian Flatworm Schmidtea polychroa”
(supervisors: Prof. Dr. NK Michiels, Dr. TG D’Souza)

1999 – 2004:


Studies of Biology, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany

   
   

Publications:

Schulte RD, Hasert B, Makus C, Michiels NK, Schulenburg H (2011) Increased responsiveness in feeding behaviour of Caenorhabditis elegans after experimental coevolution with its microparasite Bacillus thuringiensis. Biol. Lett. in press.

Schulte RD, Makus C, Hasert B, Michiels NK, Schulenburg H (2011) Host-parasite local adaptation after experimental coevolution of Caenorhabditis elegans and its microparasite Bacillus thuringiensis. Proc. R. Soc. B. in press. 278: 2832-2839.

Schulte RD, Makus C, Hasert B, Michiels NK, Schulenburg H (2010) Multiple reciprocal adaptations and rapid genetic change upon experimental coevolution of an animal host and its microbial parasite. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107: 7359-64.

Sicard M, Hering S, Schulte R, Schulenburg H (2007) The effect of pathogenic Photorhabdus luminescens on survival, development, population growth, and behavioural defences of Caenorhabditis elegans. Environm. Microbiol. 9:12-25.

D'Souza TG, Schulte RD, Schulenburg H, Michiels NK (2006) Paternal inheritance in parthenogenetic forms of the planarian Schmidtea polychroa. Heredity 97: 97-101.

 

non-peer-reviewed journals:

Schulte RD, Schulenburg H (2011) Koevolution von Caenorhabditis elegans und Mikroparasiten im Labor. Biospektrum. 5: 500-505.