🎓 MSc student, University of Greifswald
🔬 Science
🌱 Biology
🕷️ Zoology
Behavioral Biology, Sexual Selection, Communication Strategies, Vibrational Signalling, Biotremology
Denise Becker
The first day of our #gradmeet25 was filled with stunning student talks, a lot of questions and networking. Way to go!
📄New Paper!📄 Multimodal courtship in Nursery web spiders involves a nuptial gift AND vibrations. Do males adjust their investment in the vibratory signal based on how nice their nuptial gift is? Out now in @behavecol.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
Congrats to the winners of the best poster and best talk of the #gradmeeg25.
But all the contributions were really stunning!! @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @denisebe.bsky.social
Last week, I had the opportunity to present the results of my Bachelor's project at the European Congress of Arachnology. 🕷🕷🕷
I really enjoyed the time in Zadar and I feel honored to receive the best poster award! 🤩
Our journal congratulates @ortizmovliavc.bsky.social l for her award at @35theca2025.bsky.social !
Her work, “Winter warming increases metabolic stress and mortality in an overwintering spider,” got her a free publication in a @pensoft.net journal.
zookeys.pensoft.net/news/993
Proud to present our new paper, led by Stefan ter Haar who came all the way from Groningen to Greifswald to study spiders: No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male vibratory pre-copulatory courtship in Pisaura mirabilis does not affect female predatory response onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🕷️🥬The discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders. @uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
We’re really enjoying the #gradmeet25 of the @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social so far! It’s already been two days of learning about cool behaviors in various animals🦇🐒🐜
🕷️I’m super excited that I also got to share my own work on the effects of differential prey availability on Pisaura mirabilis females!🕷️
Enjoyed a beautiful walking tour with the young researchers of the @wiko-greifswald.bsky.social around the Loki-Schmidt Botanical Garden of the @uni-hamburg.de on Monday☀️🪲
A great place to experience a vast variety of plants and to learn more about conservation, human land use, and sustainability🌵
Ahana Aurora Fernandez
Ahana Aurora Fernandez
Morgan M. Oberweiser
Svea Carlotta von Einem
ZooKeys
Monika Eberhard
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Denise Becker
Denise Becker
Communications Biology
Carolina Ortiz Movliav, a PhD student at the University of Greifswald, has won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 35th European Congress of Arachnology for her work “Winter warming inc...
Male courtship can serve various purposes such as species recognition, mate localization, or advertisement of individual quality and physical condition. In predatory species such as spiders, courtshi...
