Rickard Ignell
Professor
Department of Plant Protection Biology
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden
Biography
Rickard Ignell is a Professor at the Department of Plant Protection Biology in Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He obtained his MSc and PhD at the Department of Ecology at Lund University in 1996 and 2001, respectively. After 2 years as a postdoc associate/fellow at John Carlson's lab at Yale University, he obtained an Assistant Professorship through the Scientific Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and joined the Unit of Chemical Ecology at the Department of Plant Protection Biology. He became an Associate Professor in 2008 and was appointed Professor in 2011. As of 2012 he is the Head of Department of Plant Protection Biology.
Research Interest
Chemical ecology, ethology and evolution of disease vectors.
Publications
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Ignell R, Couillaud F, Anton S (2000) Juvenile hormone-mediated plasticity of aggregation behaviour and olfactory processing in adult desert locusts. Journal of Experimental Biology 204: 249-259.
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Ignell R, Anton S, Hansson BS (1999) Integration of behaviourally relevant odours at the central nervous level in solitary and gregarious third instar locusts, Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Insect Physiology 45: 993-1000.
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Ignell R, Anton S, Hansson BS (1998) Central nervous processing of behaviourally relevant odours in solitary and gregarious fifth instar locusts, Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 183: 453-465.
