Researchers

SIMONA KRALJ-FIŠER
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Sex-specific maternal effects: Establishing methodological resources in a species with extreme sexual size dimorphism
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The role of maternal effects in the evolution of sexual dimorphism

MATJAŽ GREGORIČ

Evolution and functional ecology of spider webs and material properties of silk; spider webs and silk as eDNA sources
https://www.ezlab.si/lab-members

TAINA CONRAD

Feodor Lynen Research Fellow (Humboldtian) 
co-host: Nataša Stritih Peljhan 
Multimodal communication during courtship in the house cricket Acheta domesticus
​https://bijh.zrc-sazu.si/sl/sodelavci/taina-conrad-sl

PhD students

TIM PREZELJ
Do sex-specific maternal effects explain sexual-size dimorphism?

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SIMON CIRKULAN
Paternity in golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas)
tropskahisa.si

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Master students

LUCIJA KUNAVAR

Student helpers

DAVID TOMŠIČ

VESNA ŠUŠTARIČ

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Main collaborators

PAUL V. DEBES, debeslab.com

CENE FIŠER, www.subbio.net/people/

HANS RECKNEGEL, hansrecknagel.com
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ELENA BUŽAN, https://www.famnit.upr.si/sl/zaposleni-in-sodelavci/elena.buzan/
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JUTTA M. SCHNEIDER, https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/evolutionsbiologie/verhbio/mitarbeiter/schneider-jutta.html

MATJAŽ KUNTNER, https://www.nib.si/component/directory/?view=details&id=270&Itemid=12

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Alumni

CHIARA PIRAINO
Erasmus student from the Maastricht University, Netherlands
A study on modes of aquatic locomotion: how speed varies among and within Niphargus species

​JAVAD MOHAMMAD MALEK HOSSEINI
Iranian subterranean fauna
www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad_Javad_Malek_Hosseini2

EVA TURK
​Biogeography, macroevolutionary patterns and population genetics in golden orbweaver spiders​
www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva_Turk2

​SHAKIRA QUINONES-LEBRON
Behavioural ecology, sexual selection
www.researchgate.net/profile/Shakira_Quinones-Lebron2
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​ŽIVA VEHOVAR
University of Ljubljana
Mating system in the great raft spider, Dolomedes plantarius

​ROK GOLOBINEK
Maternal effects buffer anthropogenic effects in an urban spider
www.researchgate.net/profile/Rok-Golobinek

JANKO ŠET​
e-DNA
www.researchgate.net/profile/Janko_Set

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​I work with Evolutionary Zoology team  (EZ lab, https://www.ezlab.si/​)  that includes students and researchers from ZRC SAZU and NIB

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