March 1, 2013
His seminar, hosted by professor Rick Karban, is from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in Room 1022 of Life Sciences Addition.
Rasmann served as a research associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from 2011 to 2013.
Rasmann will be joining the UC Irvine faculty this July. He completed his undergraduate work in Ecology and Systematics, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 2001. He received his diploma (master equivalent) in chemical ecology from the University of Neuchâtel in 2002. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Anurag Agrawal lab at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., from 2007 to 2011.
Rasmann has delivered 28 seminars worldwide, including in Europe, United States, Canada, South America and Japan. He is the guest co-editor for Frontiers in Plant Science with the special topic, "Above-Below Ground Interactions Involving Plants, Microbes and Insects." He served as an adhoc reviewer for 43 journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology Letters, New Phytologist, American Naturalist and Ecology.
Rasmann has also served as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation in both Switzerland and the United States; Research Foundation, Germany; and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, among others. He co-organized a symposium at the 2008 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
Among his publications:
- Pellissier L, Fiedler K, Ndribe C, Dubuis A, Pradervand J-N, Guisan A, Rasmann S. Shifts in species richness, herbivore specialisation and plant resistance along elevation gradients. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.296.
- Rasmann S, De Vos M, Casteel C, Tian D, Sun JY, Agrawal A A, Felton G W, and Jander G. Herbivory in the previous generation primes plants for enhanced insect resistance. Plant Physiology. 158: 854-863.
- Rasmann S and Agrawal AA . Evolution of specialization: a phylogenetic study of host range in the red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetraophthalmus). The American Naturalist. 177: 728-737.
- Rasmann S and Agrawal AA. Latitudinal patterns in plant defense: evolution of cardenolides, their toxicity, and induction following herbivory. Ecology Letters. 14: 476-483.
- Rasmann S, Kollner TG, Degenhardt J, Hiltpold I, Toepfer S, Kuhlmann U, Gershenzon J, and Turlings TCJ. Recruitment of entomopathogenic nematodes by insect-damaged maize roots. Nature 434: 732-737.
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