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Dr. Mario Popp

Mario Popp

Mario Popp

Dr. Popp has left our group in 2014.

Research Interests

I am focusing on host-parasite interactions, especially the Bombus/Crithidia system. This ranges from the cultivation of this intestinal parasite to its population structures within the bumblebee host in nature and the associated immune response after (artificial) infection.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: March 19th 1981 in Schweinfurt (Bayern), Germany
  • Marital Status: married, one child
  • German: native speaker
  • English: excellent knowledge written and spoken
  • French: good knowledge written and spoken

Professional Career

  • 09/2011-1/2014: Research assistant at the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg. PhD graduation: magna cum laude.
  • 04/2008-09/2011: PhD student/research assistant at the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg. Dissertation Thesis concerned with "Disease resistance and immunity in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris" within the FUGABEE-Project (funded by BMBF)

Academic Education

  • 07/2007: Diploma (1.5)
  • 09/2006-07/2007: Graduate thesis at the Department of Behavioral  Physiology and Sociobiology(Zoologie II), AG Dr. Heike Feldhaar:   „Establishing an Immunoassays for Camponotus floridanus"
  • 10/2001-07/2007: Studies of Biology (Diploma) at the  Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    • 10/2003-07/2007: Main Studies: Major subject: Behavioral Physiology/Soziobiology: Minor subjects: Ecology of Animals/Tropical Biology, Human Genetics
    • 09/2003: Pre-degree in Biology and Chemistry
    • 09/2002: Pre-degree in Physics

Meetings and Courses

  • 11/2010: Next Generation Sequencing Symposium (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany)
  • 10/2009: 2. FUGATO-Statusseminar (Kassel, Germany)
  • 10/2008: Roche/MPI Seminar: "Innovative Technologies for Life Science Research" (Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
  • 7/2008: RethinkPCR - Scientific Conferences, Europe (Berlin, Germany)
  • 5/2008: FUGATO-Statusseminar and FUGATO-plus kick-off-meeting 2008, Potsdam, Germany)

Publications

  • ERLER, S, POPP, M, WOLF, S, MORITZ, RFA and LATTORFF, HMG (2012): Sex, horizontal transmission and multiple hosts prevent local adaptation of Crithidia bombi, a parasite of bumblebees (Bombus spp.). Ecology and Evolution    2(5): 930–940.
  • POPP M, ERLER S and LATTORFF HMG (2012): Seasonal variability of prevalence and occurrence of multiple infections shapes the population structure of Crithidia bombi (Trypanosomatidae), an intestinal parasite of bumblebees (Bombus spp.). MicrobiologyOpen    1(4): 362–372.
  • ERLER S, POPP M, LATTORFF HMG (2011): Dynamics of Immune System Gene Expression upon Bacterial Challenge and Wounding in a Social Insect (Bombus terrestris). PloS ONE    6
  • POPP, M. and LATTORFF H.M.G. (2011): A quantitative in vitro cultivation technique to determine cell number and growth rates in strains of Crithidia bombi (Trypanosomatidae), a parasite of bumblebees. J Eukarayot Microbiol    58: 7-10

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

  • POPP M, ERLER S and LATTORFF HMG. (2009): FUGABEE: Funktionelle Analyse von Krankheitsresistenzgenen bei der Erdhummel (Bombus terrestris). Genomxpress 4.09: 7-10

Oral Presentations

  • POPP M, ERLER S and LATTORFF HMG: "Seasonal variability of prevalence and the presence of multiple infections shape the population structure of an intestinal parasite of bumblebees (Bombus spp.)" 59. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Institute für Bienenforschung e.V. (Bonn, Germany, March 2012)
  • Popp M, Erler S & Lattorff HMG: "Temporal variation of parasitism in bumblebees (Bombus spp.) by C. bombi (Trypanosomatidae) on a local scale". 1st Central European Meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects - IUSSI (Papenburg; Germany – March 2011)
  • Popp M, Lattorff HMG: "Crithidia bombi - In vitro cultivation of a gut parasite of bumblebees". 1st Central European Meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects - IUSSI (Fraueninsel in Lake Chiemsee; Germany - October 2009)
  • Popp M, Lattorff HMG:  "In vitro cultivation of Crithidia bombi - a visceral parasite of bumblebees" 56. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Institute für Bienenforschung e.V. (Schwerin, Germany - March 2009)

Poster Presentations

  • Popp M., Erler S., Lattorff H.M.G.: "Temporal variation of parasitism in bumblebees (Bombus spp.) by C. bombi (Trypanosomatidae) on a local scale"; XVI International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) (Copenhagen, Denmark – August 2010)
  • Popp M, Lattorff HMG:  "In vitro cultivation of the trypanosome  Crithidia bombi, a parasite of bumble bees". 2. FUGATO-Statusseminar  (Kassel, Germany - October 2009)
  • Popp M, Lattorff HMG:  "In vitro cultivation of the trypanosome Crithidia bombi, a parasite of bumble bees". 102. Annual Meeting of Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft - DZG (Regensburg, Germany - September 2009)
  • Poster presentation of the obtained results of the diploma thesis on the ESF-FWF conference „The Impact of the Environment on Innate Immunity“ in Obergurgl (22-27.04.07). Title of the poster: „Immunity in a social context: Do infected ants signal that they are ill?“

Research visits

  • May 2008: ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (group of Prof. Dr. Paul Schmid-Hempel - Experimental Ecology)

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