Dr. Luisa María Jaimes Nino
Postdoc
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2023 – present | Postdoc, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| 2018 – 2023 | Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biology. Thesis: ‘‘Defying senescence – The causes of death and the costs of life in Cardiocondyla obscurior ant queens”. Supervised by PD. Dr. Jan Oettler and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze. Universität Regensburg. Germany |
| 2015 – 2018 | M.Sc. Evolution, Ecology and Systematics. Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena. Germany |
| 2008 – 2014 | B.Sc. Biology and B.Sc. Microbiology. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá – Colombia |
Selected conferences
| 2022 | European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Poster: "Reproductive death and the delay of the selection shadow in ants." Prague |
| 2022 | IUSSI (International Union for the Study of Social Insects). Talk: "Continuusparity:Late-life fitness gains and reproductive death in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants." San Diego |
| 2021 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSH): Biology & Genomics of Social Insects, Talk: "Social Aging: Late-life fitness gains explain the absence of a selection shadow in ants." Online |
| 2021 | Gutenberg Workshop Aging in Social Insects. Talk: "Late-life fitness gains explain the delay of the selection shadow in ants." Ingelheim. |
Grants
| 2023 | Travel grant from the Equal Opportunity Commissioner of the University of Mainz for attendance at the 7th IUSSI meeting of the Central European Section in Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| 2022 | FAS-G - Finanzielles Anreizsystem zur Förderung der Gleichstellung - Regensburg University |
| 2014 | Undergraduate Travel Award SMBE conference. Puerto Rico |
Research Interests
I am interested in the life-history traits of insects. Among them, I want to understand how the investment into reproduction affects the lifespan and senescence of the organism. For the last few years, I have been working with the ant species Cardiocondyla obscurior, a polygynous species with ant queens showing an increase in sexual production at the end of its life, and a delay on the onset of senescence. Do all ant colonies follow this pattern? During my postdoc at the JGU, I am trying to understand from a genetic/epigenetic level the learning process of another fascinating ant Cataglyphis niger. I also want to elucidate why and how ant colonies decide to reproduce at a certain time. Is there some type of optimization? Do they respond to feedback mechanisms of colony growth?
Publications
Jaimes-Nino, LM, Süß , A, Heinze, J, Schultner, E, Oettler, J (preprint) The indispensable soma of Cardiocondyla obscurior ants, bioRxiv DOI:10.1101/2022.10.02.510526
Jaimes-Nino, LM, Heinze, J, Oettler, J (2022) Late-life fitness gains and reproductive death in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants, eLife 11:e74695 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.74695
Harrison, MC, Jaimes-Nino, LM, Rodrigues, MA, Flatt, T ,Oettler, J, Bornberg-Bauer, E (2021) Gene co-expression network reveals highly conserved, well-regulated anti-ageing mechanisms in old ant queens, Genome Biology and Evolution, DOI:10.1093/gbe/evab093
Brehm, G, Niermann, J, Jaimes Nino, LM, Enseling, D, Juestel, T, Axmacher, JC, Fiedler, K (2021) Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation, Insect Conservation and Diversity DOI:10.1111/icad.12476.
Backhaus, L, Albert, G, Cuchietti, A, Jaimes Nino, LM, et al. (2021)Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old field succession, Journal of Vegetation Science DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12986
Jaimes Nino, LM, Moertter, R, Brehm, G (2019) Diversity and trait patterns of moths at the edge of an Amazonian rainforest, Journal of Insect Conservation 23: 751 – 763 DOI: 10.1007/s10841-019-00168-4
Tran, TT, Doucouré, H, Hutin, M, Jaimes Nino, LM, Szurek, B, Cunnac, S, Koebnik, R (2018) Efficient enrichment cloning of TAL effector genes from Xanthomonas, MethodsX 5: 1027-1032 DOI: 10.1016/j.mex.2018.08.014