Prof. Dr. Henrik Krehenwinkel
Current research projects in my group:
- 2025-2028: Development of an eDNA based retrospective biodiversity analysis of arthropod communities from archived environmental samples.
- 2025-2028: Development of rapid, inexpensive, and user-friendly approaches for the field detection of insects and other organisms.
- 2024-2026: Towards the development of eDNA analysis as a tool for rapid pest monitoring in agriculture.
- 2023–2026: Sicherung nachhaltiger Umwelt-Mensch-Beziehungen durch den Einsatz von Mikrosimulationsmethoden
- 2023-2025: eDNA in Agriculture – Towards the Utilization of Novel Approaches to Monitor Insect Biodiversity in Agricultural Practice.
- 2022-2025: Monitoring metaorganisms across space and time – Eco-evolutionary responses of the earthworm holobiont and soil biome to environmental change.
- 2022-2025: Detecting the genomic and transcriptomic imprints of environmental change in a marine fish species through space and time.
- 2021-2025: TrendDNA: Untersuchung zur biologischen Vielfalt mit der Umweltprobenbank.
- 2022 – 2025: Detecting the genomic imprints of extreme sexual selection - Genetic architecture of extreme SSD and male self-sacrificial traits in a sexually cannibalistic widow spider.
- 2021-2025: From field to museum: Harnessing the power of third generation sequencing to establish a simple and cost-effective multiplex approach for spider taxonomy.
- 2021-2026: Next Generation Biosecurity Monitoring of Invasive Alien Arthropod Species.

