Anika Wohlleben
Education
Clark University, Worcester (MA), USA
PhD in Biology, Fall 2016 – Winter 2022
PI: Professor Dr. Susan Foster† 2016 - 2021
Professor Dr. Néva Meyer 2021 - 2022
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (University of Münster), Münster, Germany
MS in Biosciences, December 2015
PI: Professor Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (University of Münster), Münster, Germany
BS in Biosciences, August 2013
Publications

Wohlleben A.M., Meyer N.P., Steinel N.C. (2026) Spatiotemporal trends in Schistocephalus solidus infection among populations of Alaskan threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Journal of Helminthology (in print)
Brauer J., Poller P., Hoffmann P.W., Wohlleben A.M. (2026) Exploring Chemical Cue Perception in Gordiid Worms: A Behavioral Assessment (in print)
Wohlleben A.M. (2025) Empirical Evidence of the host-parasite arms race. Nature Reviews Biodiversity. 1, 88 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00018-z
Wohlleben A.M., Tabima J.P., Meyer N.P., Steinel N.C. (2024) Population-level immunologic variation in wild threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Fish & Shellfish Immunology, Fish & Shellfish Immunology, 149, 109580
Wohlleben A.M., Tabima J.P., Meyer N.P., Steinel N.C. (2023) Exploring Gene Expression Patterns and Evolutionary Responses in Host-Parasite interactions: Insights from the Schistocephalus solidus – threespine stickleback System. bioRxiv, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.18.547692
Wohlleben, A.M., Steinel, N.C., Meyer, N.P., Baker, J.A., Foster, S.A. (2021) The timing and development of infections in a fish-cestode host-parasite system. Parasitology, 149(9), 1173-1178
Wohlleben, A.M., Franke, F., Hamley, M., Kurtz, J., & Scharsack, J.P. (2018). Early stages of infection of three‐spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with the cestode Schistocephalus solidus. Journal of fish diseases, 41(11), 1701-1708