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Dr Jorg Hardege

Reader in Chemical Ecology

+44 (0)1482 465496 | J.D.Hardege@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • Department of Biological and Marine Sciences

Related groups

  • Marine Science

Qualifications

  • PhD

Summary

For almost 30 years, Dr Hardege has studied how animals use chemical signals.

Our understanding of senses has greatly improved, but our knowledge of the importance of smell and odour in animal, microbial and plant communication systems is still relatively weak.

This is challenging in the face of climate change with the reduction in the oceans' pH affecting marine organisms' ability to use chemical signals.

We currently have no realistic idea as to whether animal signalling systems can adapt or have the plasticity to overcome what is known as 'olfactory disruption'. Most of Dr Hardege's research focuses on this topic.

Book Chapter

Pheromone

Vaglio, S., Bartels-Hardege, H., & Hardege, J. (2018). Pheromone. In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, 1-11. Springer Publishing Company. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_457-1

Helga Bartels-Hardege

Journal Article

Short-and medium-term exposure to ocean acidification reduces olfactory sensitivity in gilthead seabream

Velez, Z., Roggatz, C. C., Benoit, D. M., Hardege, J., & Hubbard, P. C. (2019). Short-and medium-term exposure to ocean acidification reduces olfactory sensitivity in gilthead seabream. Frontiers in Physiology, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00731

Christina Roggatz David Benoit

Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans

Roggatz, C. C., Fletcher, N., Benoit, D. M., Algar, A. C., Doroff, A., Wright, B., …Hardege, J. D. (2019). Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans. Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0589-3

Christina Roggatz David Benoit Katharina Wollenberg Valero

Cyanobacteria and microcystin contamination in untreated and treated drinking water in Ghana

Addico, G. N. D., Hardege, J. D., Kohoutek, J., DeGraft-Johnson, K. A. A., & Babica, P. (2017). Cyanobacteria and microcystin contamination in untreated and treated drinking water in Ghana. Advances in oceanography and limnology, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.4081/aiol.2017.6323

Target gene expression studies on Platynereis dumerilii and Platynereis cfr massiliensis at the shallow CO2 vents off Ischia, Italy

Wäge, J., Rotchell, J. M., Gambi, M., & Hardege, J. D. (2018). Target gene expression studies on Platynereis dumerilii and Platynereis cfr massiliensis at the shallow CO2 vents off Ischia, Italy. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 207, 351-358. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2017.11.012

Jeanette Rotchell Jeanette Rotchell

Free-sustaining three-dimensional S235 steel-based porous electrocatalyst for highly efficient and durable oxygen evolution

Han, W., Kuepper, K., Hou, P., Akram, W., Eickmeier, H., Hardege, J., …Schäfer, H. (2018). Free-sustaining three-dimensional S235 steel-based porous electrocatalyst for highly efficient and durable oxygen evolution. ChemSusChem, 11(20), 3661-3671. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201801351

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Hardege welcomes MSc and PhD projects that deal with animal ecology and physiology, especially when research on animal olfaction is involved.

His research group also has a major interest in applied projects in areas such as aquaculture and pest control, developing sensor for animals, plant fitness and research related to the impacts of climate change (i.e. ocean acidification). These are encouraged, as are projects linking these to past extinctions or predicting future extinctions.

The group's work spans areas from behaviour to physiology, including molecular aspects as well as chemistry.

Completed PhDs

Over the past 17 years, Dr Hardege's research group has hosted 10 PDRAs and more than 40 postgraduate students, most of whom are now in academic positions worldwide - including in China, the USA, Portugal, Uruguay, Germany, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UK.

Some 18 PhD research projects have been completed under his supervision, with all but one of these externally funded.

Current PhD supervisions

Alsheikh N, Effects of Ocean Acidification Upon Nereidid Polychaetes (first supervisor)

Alnemarie A, Impacts of Phtalates (Plastisizer) on Nereidid Polychaetes (first supervisor)

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