Balmer Oliver

Activity areas

Functional biodiversity
Conservation in agriculture

Training / professional career

since 2007: Project leader, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
2006–2008: Postdoc, Institute of Zoology, University of Basel and Swiss Tropical Institute
2001–2006: Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, USA
2002: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Project on coral bleaching
2000–2001: High school teacher
1999–2000: Hintermann & Weber, Reinach (ecological consultancy)
1999: UPCAM (NGO for development assistance). Sustainable rain forest use, community forestry and FSC forest certification in Cameroon
1996 & 1998: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), section Biodiversity
1993–1998: M.Sc. in Organismic Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland
1991–1993: B.Sc. in Environmental Natural Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich

Publications

Publications in Database Organic Eprints

Publications that are not in the database Organic Eprints (peer reviewed)

Géneau, C. E., F. L. Wäckers, H. Luka, C. Daniel, O. Balmer (in press). Selective flowers to enhance biological control of cabbage pests by parasitoids. Basic and Applied Ecology.
Balmer, O., M. Tanner (2011). Prevalence and implications of multiple-strain infections. Lancet Infectious Diseases 11:868-878.
Balmer, O., Beadell, J., Gibson, W., Caccone, A. (2011): Phylogeography and taxonomy of Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5 (2): e961.
Balmer, O., Ciofi, C., Galbraith, D. A., Swingland, I. R., Zug, G. R., Caccone, A. (2011): Population genetic structure of Aldabra giant tortoises. Journal of Heredity 102 (1): 29-37.
Li, JV., Saric, J., Wang, Y., Utzinger, J., Holmes, E., Balmer, O. (2011): Metabonomic investigation of single and multiple strain Trypanosoma brucei brucei infections. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 84 (1): 91-98.
Oberle, M., Balmer, O., Brun, R., Roditi, I. (2010): Bottlenecks and the maintenance of minor genotypes during the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Pathogens 6 (7): e1001023.
Balmer, O., Stearns, S. C., Schötzau, A., Brun R. (2009): Intraspecific competition between co-infecting parasite strains enhances host survival in African trypanosomes. Ecology 90 (12): 3367-3378.
Balmer, O. & Caccone, A. (2008): Multiple-strain infections of Trypanosoma brucei across Africa. Acta Tropica 107 (3): 275-279
Balmer, O. (2007): A review of Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites, by Robert Poulin. Evolution and Development 9 (5): 517-519
Brun, R. & Balmer, O. (2006): New developments in human African trypanosomiasis. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases 19 (5): 415-420
Balmer, O. & Palma, C., MacLeod, A., Caccone, A. (2006): Characterization of di-, tri-, and tetranucleotide microsatellite markers with perfect repeats for Trypanosoma brucei and related species. Molecular Ecology Notes 6 (2): 508-510
Balmer, O. & Tostado, C. (2006): New fluorescence markers to distinguish co-infecting Trypanosoma brucei strains in experimental multiple infections. Acta Tropica 97: 94-101
Balmer, O. (2002): Species lists in ecology and conservation: Abundances matter. Conservation Biology 16 (4): 1160-1161
Balmer, O. & Erhardt, A. (2000): Consequences of succession on extensively grazed grasslands for Central European butterfly communities: Rethinking conservation practices. Conservation Biology 14 (3): 746-757
Balmer, O. & Erhardt, A. (2000): Gesteigerte Tagfalterdiversität durch 10-jährige Verbrachung von Magerweiden im Nordwestschweizer Jura. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie 12: 259-262
Balmer, O. (1999): Die Schmetterlingsfauna an mageren Standorten des Jura in verschiedenen Stadien der Verbrachung. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 72: 303-314

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