Kelechi bringt große Erfahrung in Sachen Metabolomik, Hemolymph Sampling und in der circadianen Analyse mit. Diese erwarb er während seiner Doktoarbeit bei unseren Kollegen Agnes Feket und Martin Müller von der Biologischen Pharmazie am Julius von Sachs-Institut, Biozentrum der JMU.

Recent work on the modulation of osmotic stress by neuropeptides suggests that corazonin ameliorates stress-associated physiology through modulation of CAPA-expressing peptidergic secretory neurons and the fat body in the fly. The study is now published in PLOS Genetics, and originates from a collaboration spearheaded by Meet Zandawala and Dick Nässel and colleagues at Stockholm University with Chris' lab with former Erasmus student Marta, and the Paluzzi lab at York University, Toronto.

Sander and Chris participated in an effort lead by Jens Habenstein and Wolfgang Rössler (Zoology II, WIR, Biocenter JMU) and Susanne Neupert (U Kassel), together with Reinhard Predel (U Cologne) on peptidomics and mass spectrometric imaging of neuropeptides in the ant brain. The results now appeared openaccess in the Journal of Neurochemistry

A bigger project during our CRC1047 "Insect timing" focussed on eclosion timing under quasi-natural conditions, involving three different teams: Franzi, Simon and Chris; as well as Melanie and Dirk from our Chair, plus Oliver Mitesser and Thomas Hovestadt from the Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology Group. The results suggest that under temperate conditions in Würzburg, a functional circadian clock is required to stably and precisely time eclosion. For more, see the open access article in SRBR's Journal of Biological Rhythms

Die DFG hat ein neues Gemeinschaftprojekt über die Rolle der Proteinkinase RSK bei der Modulation der Inneren Uhr, Neuroplastizität und dem Verhaltenstiming bei Drosophila bewilligt.