The Group

Mathias Kölliker	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 79	mathias.koelliker-at-unibas.ch	Group Leader, Ass Prof SNF
Lilian Röllin	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 27	lilian.roellin-at-unibas.ch	Lab Manager
Yasmin Picton (Secretariate)	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 61	yasmin.picton-at-unibas.ch	Secretary

Akram El Gebali	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 75	a.elgebali-at-unibas.ch	Ph.D. student
Elodie Belz	Phone: +41 (0)62 865 04 45	elodie.belz-at-live.fr	Ph.D. student, at FiBL Frick
Guendalina Barloggio	Phone:	g.barloggio-at-stud.unibas.ch	MSc. student, at FiBL Frick
Janine Wong	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 27	janine.wong-at-unibas.ch	Ph.D. student
Joel Meunier	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 27	joel.meunier-at-unibas.ch	Postdoc
Lina Sandrin	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 27	lina.sandrin-at-stud.unibas.ch	MSc. student
Stefan Boos	Phone: +41 (0)61 267 03 27	stefan.boos-at-stud.unibas.ch	MSc. student

The Kölliker group on their 2011 group outing playing Curling in Arlesheim (January 2011). From left to right: Stefan, Elodie, Ralph, Aline, Mathias, Lilian, Lisa, Joel, Dimitri, Yamenah, Nicole and Janine.

Former group members

Dimitri Stucki	former MSc. student
Lisa Bradbury	former MSc. student
Yamenah Gomez	former MSc. student
Nicole Kalberer	former postdoc
Flore Mas	former Ph.D. student	now postdoc at the Food & Plant Research Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand
Ralph Dobler	former Ph.D. student	now postdoc at University of Tübingen, Germany
Michael Starkle	former MSc. student
Mandy Schöne-Michling	former MSc. student

Collaborations

Nick Royle - University of Exeter, Cornwall, GB
Per Terje Smiseth - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Schottland
Steve Ramm and Lukas Scharer - Zoological Institute, University of Basel
Jean-Claude Walser - Genetic Diversity Center (GDC), ETH Zurich, and Zoological Institute, University of Basel
Oliver Balmer - FiBL, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, CH
Butch Brodie - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Sabrina Gaba - INRA, Dijon, FR
Ken Haynes - University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Allen Moore - University of Exeter, Cornwall, GB
Heinz Richner - University of Bern, CH
Michel Vancassel - University of Rennes 1, FR

Fieldwork

Field work 2009 in Dolcedo (Liguria, Italy) on the Italien Western Mediterranean coast. From top left to bottom right: 1) the field site, 2) Lilian Röllin carrying a field box in which the earwigs are transported, 3) Mathias Kölliker and Lilian Röllin assembling caught earwigs for transport, 3) Joel Meunier counting and identifying earwigs.

The traps that we use to catch our research critters. On the left are ground traps with which we predominately catch larval stages. The adults are preferentially caught using traps on the trees (see right picture), because they forage on the trees at night. The trap consists of currogated cardboard wrapped around the tree trunk.

Here we were setting up earwig traps on an apple tree orchard in Gommiswald (SG) in spring 2007. From left to right: Heinrich Höhn (Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil.), Ralph Dobler, Flore Mas, Mathias Kölliker