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Mitarbeiter im Fachbereich Biologie

Kurtz, Joachim, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Institut für Evolution und Biodiversität
Hüfferstr. 1
D- 48149 Münster

Tel: + 49 - 251 - 83 2 4661
Fax: + 49 - 251 83 2 4668
E-mail: joachim.kurtz
net: www.uni-muenster.de/Evolution/Evolution.AnimalEvolEcol/
wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
1996           Diploma Thesis, University of Cologne
1996-1999  PhD thesis (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Bonn
1999-2005  Research associate, MPI of Limnology, Plön
2005-2006  Assistant professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2006-2007  Fellow/Convenor, Institute of Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), Berlin
2006           Full Professor (W3), WWU Münster, Zoology: Animal Evolutionary Ecology
Lehrschwerpunkte

- Zoology
- Evolution and Biodiversity
- Evolutionary ecology
- Evolutionary immunology
- Evolutionary parasitology
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Evolution of immune systems
- Host-parasite coevolution
- Evolutionary ecology of parasites
ausgewählte Projekte
- The evolutionary ecology of specificity and phenotypic plasticity in innate immunity
- Adaptation of parasites to different host immune systems
ausgewählte Publikationen

Kurtz J. & Sauer K.P. (1999) The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: testing the genetic predictions. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266 (1437): 2515-2522.

Kurtz J., Wiesner A., Götz P. & Sauer K.P. (2000) Gender differences and induvidual variation in the immune system of the scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris (Insecta: Mecoptera). Dev. Comp. Immunol. 24: 1-12.

Kurtz J. & Franz K. (2003) Evidence for memory in the invertebrate immunity. Nature 425: 37-38.

Wegner K.M., Kalbe M., Kurtz J., Reusch T.B.H. & Milinski M. (2003) Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality. Science 301: 1343.

Kurtz J., Kalbe M., Aeschlimann P.B., Häberli M.A., Wegner K.M., Reusch T.B.H. & Milinski M. (2004) Major histocompatibility complex diversity influences parasite resistance and innate immunity in sticklebacks. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271: 197-204.

Kurtz J. (2005) Specific memory in innate immunity. Trends Immunol. 26: 186-192.

Hammerschmidt K. & Kurtz J. (2005) Evolutionary implications of the adaption to different immune systems in a parasite with a complex life cycle. Prod. R. Soc. Lond. B 272: 2411-2518.

Kurtz J., Wegner K.M., Kalbe M., Reusch T.B.H., Schaschl H., Hasselquist D. & Milinski M. (2006) MHC genes and oxidative stress in sticklebacks - an immuno-ecological approach. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 273: 1407-1414.
ausgewählte Kooperationen
- ETH Zürich (Switzerland), Institute of Integrative Biology (Prof. P. Schmid-Hempel, Prof. S. Bonhoeffer)
- Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology Plön (Dr. M. Kalbe, Prof. M. Milinski)
- German Parasitological Society, Ecological Parasitology Group (Prof. B. Sures, University Essen)
- University of Sheffield (UK), Evolution and Behaviour Research Group (Dr. J. Rolff, Prof. M. Siva-Jothy).
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 E-Mail: dekanat.bio@uni-muenster.de