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Curriculum Vitae

Melanie Böhm

Name: Melanie Böhm Portrait
Address: Jägerstr. 17
85077 Manching
Germany
Telephone: +49-8459-2334
E-mail: melanie.boehm@loeschen.gmx.de.loeschen
Date of birth: 29 October 1980
Nationality: German
Marital status: single

Education and Training:
1991 – 2000: Secondary School: Schyren-Gymnasium in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm
Allgemeine Hochschulreife; A-levels: 1.8 (on a scale from 1 (best) to 6 (worst))
2001 – 2007: Study of biology (diploma) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
major subject: ecology
minor subjects: wildlife research
botany (systematics)
meteorology
diploma thesis: "Evolution of virulence and resistance:
Behavioural and chemical adaptations in a social parasite system"

Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr

(voluntary social work):
2000 – 2001: intensive care and occupational therapy at the rehabilitation centre in Bad Gögging (Bavaria)

Stay abroad:
1982 – 1987: El Paso, Texas, USA

Computer-Skills:

 MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Explorer, LaTeX typesetting, Internet Research
as well as limited skills with Statistika, SPSS and Primer V6

Current occupation:

 cashier and museum attendant at the "kelten-römer-museum manching"

Detailed information on my studies:

Diploma thesis:

  • "Evolution of virulence and resistance: Behavioural and chemical adaptations in a social parasite system"
  • Behavioural and evolutionary studies
  • Investigation of adaptations in the slavemaking ant species Harpagoxenus sublaevis and its two host species Leptothorax acervorum and L. muscorum
  • Tutor:
    Prof. Dr. Susanne Foitzik
    Department Biologie II
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Großhaderner Str. 2
    D-82152 Planegg / Martinsried
    foitzik@loeschen.zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de.loeschen

Thesis in wildlife research:
"Erfolg und Misserfolg in der Wiedereinbürgerung der Wildkatze in Bayern"
("Success and failure: The repatriation of the wildcat in Bavaria")

Practical courses:

  • Basic courses in
    • botany and zoology (systematics and physiology)
    • genetics and microbiology
    • chemistry for biologists
    • modelling population biology (theory at the computer)
  • Introduction into the methods of
    • river ecology
    • experimental plankton ecology
    • behaviour ecology
  • Detailed courses in
    • botany (systematics)
    • ecology
  • practical research "behaviour ecology": genetical research
  • Meteorologisches Instrumentenpraktikum (meteorological instruments)

Field trips:

  • national park and wildlife research (national park Bayerischer Wald)
  • wildlife research (national park Hohe Tauern)
  • cave biology (French Pyrenees)
  • diversity of species (botany and zoology)

Seminars in the following subject areas:

  • tropical rainforests: ecology, destruction, conservation
  • botany
  • ecology and behaviour ecology
  • cave biology
  • wildlife research

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