DFG Emmy Noether group at the Zoological Institute at Kiel University.

The group’s research centers on the interaction between the environment and physiological systems in marine invertebrates and their planktonic larvae. We are working on a range of different organisms while using the sea urchin larva as model system for mechanistic approaches with the focus of energy homeostasis. Further, we are interested in the function and evolution of digestive systems. We are using physiological trait based approaches to understand what molecular and physiological mechanisms of energy acquisition and energy consumption are impacted by environmental change and how the environment may be driving the evolution of functional systems like the digestive tract in the future.