YUKO ULRICH

I am interested in the interplay between social organization and disease resistance in animal societies. I received my M.S. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where I worked on the sociogenetics of halictine bees. I then did a Ph.D. at ETH Zurich, where I investigated the evolutionary ecology of disease transmission in a trypanosome-bumblebee system.

EDUCATION & RESEARCH

2012 - present​

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The Rockefeller University, New York

Postdoctoral fellow with D. Kronauer

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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Advanced Postdoc. Mobility Fellowship (24 months)

Women&Science Fellowship (12 months)

SNSF Prospective Researcher Fellowship (12 months)

2008 - 2011​

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ETH Zurich

Doctoral studies with P. Schmid-Hempel

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PhD thesis:

‘Evolutionary ecology of parasite diversity, mixed infections and

transmission in a social insect - trypanosome system’

2001 - 2007

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University of Lausanne, Switzerland

MSc in Biology, Evolution and Conservation

Faculty of Biology and Medicine

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MSc thesis:

‘Social organisation and population genetics of the sweat bee Halictus scabiosae’ (supervised by M. Chapuisat and N. Perrin)

2007

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Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visiting researcher with R. Gadagkar,

Grant from the Indo Swiss Bilateral Research Initiative

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2005

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Kyoto Univesity, Japan