Luisa María Jaimes Niño
Principal Investigator
- Project: Project 25.3
- Research Group
- Address: iomE, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15 (Biozentrum I, room: 01.452), 55128 Mainz
- Phone: +49 6131 39 26717
Work experience:
- Since 2026: Group Leader, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
- 2024 – 2026: Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher.
Project: The colony ontongeny: growth, reproduction and dispersal in a superorganism - 2023 – 2024: Postdoctoral researcher, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz. Project: Spatial learning in an individually foraging ant
Education:
- 2018 - 2023: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Biology, University of Regensburg, Germany
- 2015 - 2018: M.Sc. Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany
- 2017 – 2018: International Exchange of Quantitative Ecology Module, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
- 2008 – 2014: Bachelor of Science in Biology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- 2009 – 2014: Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- 2011 – 2012: International Exchange in Biodiversité Ecologie et Biologie des organismes, Université Montpellier 2, France
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Süß LM, Oettler J, Jaimes-Nino LM (2025)
Fertility correlates with queen size and sperm quality in an ant PLoS One, 20(12): e0336378 -
Jaimes-Nino LM, Oettler J (2025)
The pace and shape of ant aging Biological Reviews, 100: 2071–2083 -
Jaimes-Nino LM, Oettler J (2025)
No correlation between mother and daughter life-history traits in Cardiocondyla obscurior Insectes Sociaux -
Gil-Hoed C, Foitzik S, Jaimes-Nino LM (2025)
Well-coordinated cooperative transport in the invasive ant Anoplolepis gracilipes. Insectes Sociaux, 72:475–486 -
Jaimes-Nino LM, Bar A, Subach Aziz, Stoldt M, Libbrecht R, Scharf I, Foitzik S (2024)
Transcriptomic signature of spatial navigation in brains of desert ants. Ecology and Evolution, 14:e70365 -
Jaimes-Nino LM, Heinze J, Oettler J (2022)
Late-life fitness gains and reproductive death in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants eLife, 11:e74695 -
Harrison MC, Jaimes-Nino LM, Rodrigues MA, Flatt T, Oettler J, Bornberg-Bauer E (2021)
Gene co-expression network reveals highly conserved, well-regulated anti-ageing mechanisms in old ant queens Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(6):evab093 -
Brehm G, Niermann J, Jaimes Nino LM, Enseling D, Juestel T, Axmacher JC, Fiedler K (2021)
Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation Insect Conservation and Diversity, 14(2):188-198 -
Backhaus L, Albert G, Cuchietti A, Jaimes Nino LM, et al. (2021)
Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old field succession Vegetation Science, 32(2):e12986 -
Jaimes Nino LM, Moertter R, Brehm G (2019)
Diversity and trait patterns of moths at the edge of an Amazonian rainforest Journal of Insect Conservation, 23:751-763