Sonja Bisch-Knaden

This study identifies 208 odorants relevant to locust ecology and shows that locust olfactory receptors are narrowly tuned to specific ligands, with single receptor knockouts abolishing responses to their ligands.

This study investigates how female hawkmoths distinguish between crucial and background plant odors, finding that their olfactory system uniquely codes for larval host plants even when these odors are subtle.

The paper shows that the co-receptor IR8a is essential for hawkmoths to avoid ovipositing on plants already attacked by conspecific caterpillars, based on frass-emitted carboxylic acids.

This study uses CRISPR-Cas9 to knock out orco in hawkmoths, showing impaired foraging but normal oviposition behavior.