M.Sc. Alice Günther

Contact

Universität Rostock

Institut für Biowissenschaften

Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie

Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock

Tel.: +49 381 / 498-6266

Email: alice.guenther (at) uni-rostock.de

ResearchGate: Alice Guenther

Studies and academic training

since April 2020: Preparation of a doctoral thesis on the topic: “The ecomorphotypes of scorpions - testing a complex concept”, funded by a scholarship from the Landesgraduiertenförderung of the University of Rostock.

October 2018: Master of Science at the University of Rostock. Master's thesis on the comparative morphology of the metasomata of scorpions, supervised by PD. Dr. Christian Wirkner and Dr. Bastian Klußmann-Fricke

2016 - 2018: Master's studies in Integrative Zoology at the University of Rostock.

August 2016: Bachelor of Science at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Bachelor's thesis on the total herbicide Roundup(R) on the honey bee Apis melifera, especially on the expression of key genes in the midgut

2013 - 2016: Bachelor's studies in Biosciences at the University of Halle-Wittenberg

Professional activities

Since 2019: Ecological mapping and writing of species conservation articles

2019: student assistant at the University of Rostock, supervision of the practical course “Evolutionary Morphology”

2018: student assistant at the University of Rostock, supervision of the anatomical practical course in the module “General Zoology”

2017: Student assistant at the IOW Warnemünde in the project “ran an die Ostsee”

Publications

Günther, A.; Drack, M.; Monod, L.; Wirkner, C.S.(2021): A unique yet technically simple type of joint allows for the high mobility of scorpion tails. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18: 20210388. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0388

Günther, A.; Monod, L.; Wirkner, C.S. (2021): Comparative morphology of scorpion metasomata (Arachnida, Chelicerata): muscles and cuticle. Arthropod Structure & Development 60: 101003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2020.101003

Presentations

Günther A.; Wirkner, C.S. (2018): The bearer of bad news: comparative morphology of metasomata in scorpions (Arachnida, Chelicerata). 111. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Greifswald, 10. – 15.09.2018. (Poster)

Günther A.; Wirkner, C.S. (2018): The bearer of bad news: comparative morphology of metasomata in scorpions (Arachnida, Chelicerata). 31. European Congress of Arachnology, Vác, Hungary, 08. – 13.07.2018. (Poster)