Rickard Ignell

Professor
Chemical ecology
V building

+46 40 41 53 11
+46 735 98 48 71
Fax +46 40 46 19 91

rickard.ignell@slu.se

Postal address
Dept. of Plant Protection Biology
Box 102
SE-230 53 Alnarp
Sweden

Visiting address Delivery address
Sundsvägen 14 Växtskyddsvägen 3

Education

MSc, Lund University. 1996
PhD, Lund University. 2001

Research projects

My research interests include molecular and cellular aspects of chemosensory driven behaviors in insects. Major emphasis is put on the function of the olfactory and gustatory systems of mosquitoes, including Aedes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus as well as Anopheles gambiae, and how these are used in the context of nectar feeding, vertebrate host finding and oviposition. Another major part of my ongoing research focuses on the plasticity of the chemosensory systems, where I try to understand how systems change at different time periods to adapt to external and internal changes. Here, mosquitoes as well as Drosophila and the moth Spodoptera littoralis are used as model species.

Teaching

PhD level courses
Insect Chemical Ecology
Insect Neurobiology
Sensory Ecology

Selected publications

Trona F, Witzgall P, Ignell R. 2010. Coding and interaction of sex pheromone and plant volatile information in the antennal lobe of Cydia pomonella. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 4303

Arensburger P et al. 2010. Sequencing of Culex quinquefasciatus establishes a platform for mosquito comparative genomics. Science 330: 86-88

Harraca V, Ryne C, Ignell R. 2010. Nymphs of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius) produce anti-aphrodisiac defence against conspecific males. BMC Biology 8:121

Stanczyk N, Logan JG, Ignell R Pickett JA. 2010. Behavioural insensitivity to DEET in Aedes aegypti: a genetically determined trait residing in changes in sensillum function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (19) 8575-8580

Siju KP, Hill SR, Hansson BS, Ignell R. 2010. Influence of blood meal on the responsiveness of olfactory receptor neurons in antennal sensilla trichodea of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Journal of Insect Physiology 56:659-665

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