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Lena Loh [PhD student]

Research interests

  • Aquatic ecology
  • Dynamic Systems
  • Symbiosis

Current project

  • I investigate context-dependent shifts in the symbiotic interaction between the rotifer Brachionus rubens and the crustacean Daphnia magna. This work is part of the DFG research group DynaSym

Lena Loh [PhD student]


Scientific career

since 2025           Doctoral studies at the University of Potsdam in the DFG research group DynaSym, supervised by apl. Prof. Dr. Guntram Weithoff

2021 - 2025         Master of Science in Marine Environmental Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
                                 Topic of Master's thesis: "Effects of food supply on competition, intraguild predation and inducible offence and defence in the
                                 freshwater ciliates Sytlonychia mytilus and Euplotes octocarinatus"

2017 - 2021          Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Biology at the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf.
                                 Topic of the bachelor thesis: "Bioinformatic and functional analysis of different members of the Side and Beat family in
                                 Drosophila melanogaster"