Jannicke GALLINGER

Jannicke Gallinger is a researcher at the Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture. Her work focuses on applied and fundamental aspects of plant–plant and plant–insect interactions mediated by semiochemicals, and on how these chemical signals affect insect behavior and multitrophic interactions between plants, microbes, and insects.

She obtained her PhD at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2020. During her doctoral studies, she worked at the Applied Chemical Ecology Lab at the JKI, where she investigated the ecology of psyllids and the impact of phytoplasma infections on host plants and their psyllid vectors. Following her PhD, she continued at the JKI as a postdoctoral researcher, studying the effects of climate change parameters on plant-insect interactions. In 2022, she joined the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden, as a postdoctoral researcher, investigating plant–plant communication in crop mixtures via chemical signals and their impact on biological pest control. In 2024, she returned to the JKI in her current role as a researcher. Her work combines chemical analyses of primary and secondary plant metabolites with behavioral assays and field trials, aiming to develop innovative strategies for pest control.

She has been a member of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group “Pheromones and other semiochemicals in integrated production” since 2019, when she was awarded the Best Paper Student Prize on semiochemicals at the group’s meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.