Focus of research
- Social Evolution: cooperation & conflict
- Evolution of Ageing
- Community ecology of West African termites
CV
- Since 2013 Full Professor (W3), Evolution & Ecology, Univ. Freiburg
- 2008-2013 Full Professor (W3) Behavioral Biology, Univ. Osnabrück
- 200-2008 Scientific Assistant, Univ. Regensburg
- 2004 Habilitation in Zoology, Univ. Regensburg
- 2000-2004 Emmy Noether Group Leader (DFG), Univ. Regensburg
- 1999-2000 Research Fellow (German Science Foundation, DFG), CSIRO, Canberra & Darwin, Australia
- 1997-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow of the DAAD, University of Würzburg & Côte d’Ivoire
- 1994-1997 PhD, University of Würzburg
- 1987-1993 Studies of Biology (Diplom), University of Würzburg
Selected publications
- Elsner D, Meusemann K, Korb J (2018) Longevity and transposon defense, the case of termite reproductives. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115:5504-5509.
- Hoffmann K, Gowin J, Hartfelder K, Korb J (2014) The scent of royalty: a P450 gene signals reproductive status in a social insect. Mol Biol Evol 31:2689-2696.
- Korb J, Foster KR (2010) Ecological competition favours cooperation in termite societies. Ecol Lett 13:754-760.
- Korb J, Weil T, Hoffmann K, Foster KR, Rehli M (2009) A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites. Science 324:758.
- Korb J, Heinze J (2008) Ecology of Social Evolution. Springer Press, Heidelberg
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