
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
The Rockefeller University, New York
Postdoctoral fellow with D. Kronauer
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Advanced Postdoc. Mobility Fellowship (24 months)
Women&Science Fellowship (12 months)
SNSF Prospective Researcher Fellowship (12 months)
2008 - 2011
ETH Zurich
Doctoral studies with P. Schmid-Hempel
PhD thesis:
‘Evolutionary ecology of parasite diversity, mixed infections and
transmission in a social insect - trypanosome system’
2001 - 2007
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
MSc in Biology, Evolution and Conservation
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
MSc thesis:
‘Social organisation and population genetics of the sweat bee Halictus scabiosae’ (supervised by M. Chapuisat and N. Perrin)
2007
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Visiting researcher with R. Gadagkar,
Grant from the Indo Swiss Bilateral Research Initiative
2005
Kyoto Univesity, Japan
2007 - 2008
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Research assistant with L. Fumagalli and N. Perrin