Section for Ecology and Evolution
We address fundamental questions about the organizational principles and functional diversity of life. Major research interests – often shared between research groups – are:
- Social evolution in animal societies and cells, and regulation of social conflict
- The co-evolutionary dynamics of mutualistic & parasitic interactions
- Animal communication, emotions & social networks
- Assembly rules of ecological communities
- Conservation and invasive biology
- Biodiversity genomics
- The maintenance of genomic stability
- Impact of climate change on organismal morphology
- Why evolution has left humans vulnerable to disease
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Koos Boomsma's research groupSocial Evolution |
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Elodie Briefer's research groupVertebrate behaviour, emotion, communication and cognition |
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Hans Henrik Bruun's research groupCommunity ecology, biodiversity and conservation science |
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David Nash's research groupSocial parasitism, mutualism, coevolution & conservation |
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Michael Poulsen's research groupSocial and symbiotic evolution |
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Birgitte Regenberg's research groupExploring the biology of circular DNA |
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Søren Rosendahl's research groupMolecular fungal ecology |
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Jonathan Shik's research groupIntegrative evolutionary biology |
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Guojie Zhang's research groupBiodiversity genomics |
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Christy Anna HipsleyEvolutionary Morphology |
Current major programs in which section members are involved are:
- Center for Biodiversity Genomics
- Involvement of circular DNA in macroevolution of animals and fungi
- Disease-free social life without antibiotics resistance
- Eco-physiological tradeoffs with crop domestication:
have farming ants cracked the code? - Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA)
Past major programs for which the secrion is internationally known
- Centre for Social Evolution (CSE: 2005-2015)
The section is involved in teaching at all levels from first year undergraduate courses to PhD training.
Compulsory undergraduate courses
| Almen biokemi |
| Evolutionary Biology |
| Organismernes Diversitet |
| Population Biology |
Elective undergraduate courses
| Conservation (BSc) |
| Experimental Design and statistical methods in Biology |
| Metabolism & Enzymology |
| Molecular Ecology |
Masters level courses
PhD courses
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Contact
Section for Ecology and Evolution
Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
SECTION HEAD
Associate Professor David Nash
Email: DRNash@bio.ku.dk
Phone: +45 3532 1323