Bill S. Hansson

Professor
Chemical ecology

+49 36 41 57 14 00
+49 17 54 30 82 22
+49 36 41 57 14 02

hansson@ice.mpg.de

Postal address
Dept of Evolutionary Neuroethology
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Hans Knöll Strasse 8, D-07745 Jena
Germany

Education

BSc Lund University, May 1982, Biology
PhD Lund University, October 1988, Ecology
Docent Lund University, August 1992, Ecology
Professor, promoted Lund University, April 2000, Chemical Ecology
Professor, recruited SLU, March 2001, Chemical Ecology
Professor, adjunct SLU, January 2007, Chemical Ecology
Professor, honorary Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 2010

Research projects

I am part of the board of the Linné Program “Insect Ecology, Ethology and Evolution (IC-E3).” Beyond this function I take active part primarily in our Lighthouse Project on Spodoptera littoralis host search, but am also involved as collaborator in projects involving other moth species, drosophilid flies, mosquitoes, bark beetles, gall midges, and other insects.
My activities in my German laboratory can be found at http://www.ice.mpg.de/han/home/home_en.htm

Selected publications

Martel V, Anderson P, Hansson BS, Schlyter F. 2009. Peripheral modulation of olfaction by physiological state in the Egyptian leaf worm Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J Insect Physiol (in press)

Rieger V, Perez Y, Müller CHG, Lipke E, Sombke A, Shinn GL, Hansson BS, Harzsch S. 2009. Immunohistochemical analysis and 3D-reconstruction of the cephalic nervous system of Chaetognatha: insights into the evolution of an early bilaterian brain? Invert Biol (in press)

Steck K, Hansson BS, Knaden M. 2009. Smells like home: Dersert ants, cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest. Frontiers in Zoology 6:5

Sadek M, Hansson BS, Anderson P. 2010. Does risk of egg parasitism affect choice of oviposition sites by a moth? A field and laboratory study. Basic appl ecol 11:135-143

Steck K, Knaden M, Hansson BS. 2010. Do desert ants smell the scenery in stereo? Animal Behav (Accepted)

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