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Christoph Sandrock

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Hermetia illucens: Basic research and use as animal feed
  • Beekeeping and (wild) bee promotion

Projects

Training / professional career

  • Since 2015 Scientific collaborator at FiBL Switzerland
  • 2013 - 2015 Ecotoxicology test manager , Innovative Environmental Services, Witterswil, Switzerland
  • 2010 - 2013 Postdoc at Agroscope, Liebefeld-Posieux, Switzerland
  • 2006 - 2009 PhD at the University of Zurich
  • 2000 - 2005 Biology studies at the University of Frankfurt a.M.

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

Peer-reviewed papers:

  • Sandrock, C., Leupi, S., Wohlfahrt, J., Kaya, C., Heuel, M., Terranova, M., Blanckenhorn, W.U., Windisch, W., Kreuzer, M. & F. Leiber. Genotype-by-diet interactions for larval performance and body composition traits in the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens. Insects 13 (2022): 424. doi.org/10.3390/insects13050424
  • Heuel, M., Kreuzer, M., Sandrock, C., Leiber, F., Mathys, A., Guggenbühl, B., Gangnat, I.D.M. & M. Terranova. Feeding value of black soldier fly larvae compared to soybean in methionine- and lysine-deficient laying hen diets. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 8 (2022): 989-999. doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2021.0178
  • Heuel, M., Sandrock, C., Leiber, F., Mathys, A., Gold, M., Zurbrügg, C., Gagnat, I.D.M., Kreuzer, M. & M. Terranova. Black soldier fly larvae meal and fat as a replacement for soybeans in organic broiler diets: Effects on performance, body N retention, carcass, and meat quality. British Poultry Science 63 (2022): 650-661. doi.org/10.1080/00071668.2022.2053067
  • Kaya, C., Generalovic, T.N., Ståhls, G., Hauser, M., Samayoa, A.C., Nunes-Silva, C.G., Roxburgh, H., Wohlfahrt, J., Ewusie, E.A., Kenis, M., Hanboonsong, Y., Orozco, J., Carrejo, N., Nakamura, S., Gasco, L., Rojo, S., Tanga, C.M., Meier, R., Rhode, C., Picard, C.J., Jiggins, C., Leiber, F., Tomberlin, J.K., Hasselmann, M., Blanckenhorn, W.U., Kapun, M. & C. Sandrock. Global population genetic structure and demographic trajectories of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens. BMC Biology 19 (2021): 94. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-021-01029-w
  • Heuel, M., Kreuzer, M., Sandrock, C., Leiber, F., Mathys, A., Gold, M., Zurbrügg, C., Gangnat, I.D.M. & M. Terranova. Transfer of lauric and myristic acid from black soldier fly larval lipids to egg yolk lipids of hens is low. Lipids 56 (2021): 423-435. doi.org/10.1002/lipd.12304
  • Heuel, M., Sandrock, C., Leiber, F., Mathys, A., Gold, M., Zurbrügg, C., Gagnat, I.D.M., Kreuzer, M. & M. Terranova. Black soldier fly larvae meal and fat can completely replace soybean cake and oil in diets for laying hens. Poultry Science 100 (2021): 101034. doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2021.101034
  • Ståhls, G., Meier, R., Sandrock, C., Hauser, M., Šašić Zorić, L., Laiho, E., Aracil, A., Doderović, J., Badenhorst, R., Unadirekkul, P., Mohd Adom, N.A.B., Wein, L., Richards, C., Tomberlin, J.K., Rojo, S., Veselić, S. & T. Parvainen. The puzzling mitochondrial phylogeography of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens), the commercially most important insect protein species. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20 (2020):60. doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-01627-2
  • Ewusie, E.A., Kwapong, P.K., Ofosu-Budu, G., Sandrock, C., Akumah, A., Nartey, E., Teye-Gaga, C., & S.A. Agyarkwah. The Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): Trapping and culturing of wild clonies in Ghana. Scientific African 5 (2019): e00134. doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2019.e00134
  • Wynants, E., Frooninckx, L., Crauwels, S., Verreth, C., De Smet, J., Sandrock, C., Wohlfahrt, J., Van Schelt, J., Depraetere, S., Lievens, B., Van Miert, S., Claes, J. & L. Van Campenhout. Assessing the microbiota of Black Soldier Fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) reared on organic waste streams on four different locations at laboratory and large scale. Microbial Ecology 77 (2019): 913-930. doi.org/10.1007/s00248-018-1286-x
  • Ewusie, E.A., Kwapong, P.K., Ofosu-Budu, G., Sandrock, C., Akumah, A., Nartey, E., Teye-Gaga, C., Agyarkwah, S.A. & N. Adamptey. Development of Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in selected organic market waste fractions in Accra, Ghana. Asian Journal of Biotechnology and Bioresource Technology (2018): 1-16. DOI : 10.9734/AJB2T/2018/42371
  • Stadtlander, T., Stamer, A., Buser, A., Wohlfahrt, J., Leiber, F. & C. Sandrock. Hermetia illucens meal as fish meal replacement for rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, on farm. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 3 (2017): 165-175. www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/pdf/10.3920/JIFF2016.0056
  • Fauser, A., Sandrock, C., Neumann, P. & B.M. Sadd. Neonicotinoids override a parasite exposure impact on hibernation success of a key bumblebee pollinator. Ecological Entomology 42 (2017): 306-314: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.12385
  • Sandrock, C., Tanadini, M., Tanadini, L.G., Fauser-Misslin, A., Potts, S.G. & P. Neumann. Impact of chronic neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee colony performance and queen supersedure. PLoS ONE 9 (2014): e103592. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103592
  • Sandrock, C., Tanadini, L.G., Pettis, J.S., Biesmeijer, J.C., Potts, S.G. & P. Neumann. Sublethal neonicotinoid insecticide exposure reduces solitary bee reproductive success. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 16 (2014): 119-128. dx.doi.org/10.1111/afe.12041
  • Fauser-Misslin, A., Sadd, B., Neumann, P. & C. Sandrock. Influence of combined pesticide and parasite exposure on bumblebee colony traits in the laboratory. Journal of Applied Ecology 51 (2014): 450-459. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12188
  • Sandrock, C., Schirrmeister, B.E. & C. Vorburger. Evolution of reproductive mode variation and host associations in a sexual-asexual complex of aphid parasitoids. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11 (2011): 348. doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-348
  • Sandrock, C., Razmjou, J. & C. Vorburger. Climate effects on life cycle variation and population genetic architecture of the black bean aphid, Aphis fabae. Molecular Ecology 20 (2011): 4165-4181. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05242.x
  • Sandrock, C. & C. Vorburger. Single-locus recessive inheritance of asexual reproduction in a parasitoid wasp. Current Biology 21 (2011): 433-437. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.070
  • Engelstädter, J., Sandrock, C. & C. Vorburger. Contagious parthenogenesis, automixis, and a sex determination meltdown. Evolution 65 (2011): 501-511. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01145.x
  • Sandrock, C., Gouskov, A. & C. Vorburger. Ample genetic variation but no evidence for genotype specificity in an all-parthenogenetic host-parasitoid interaction. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23 (2010): 578-585. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01925.x
  • Castañeda, L.E., Sandrock, C. & C. Vorburger. Variation and covariation of life-history traits in aphids is related to infection with the facultative symbiont Hamiltonella defensa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100 (2010): 237-247. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01416.x
  • Vorburger, C., Sandrock, C., Gouskov, A., Castañeda, L.E. & J. Ferrari. Genotypic variation and the role of defensive endosymbionts in an all-parthenogenetic host-parasitoid interaction. Evolution 63 (2009): 1439-1450. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00660.x
  • Brede, N., Sandrock, C., Straile, D., Spaak, P., Jankowski, T., Streit, B. & K. Schwenk. The impact of human-made ecological changes on the genetic architecture of Daphnia species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106 (2009): 4758–4763. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0807187106
  • Sandrock, C., Frauenfelder, N., von Burg, S. & C. Vorburger. Microsatellite DNA markers for the aphid parasitoid Lysiphlebus fabarum and their applicability to related species. Molecular Ecology Notes 7 (2007): 1080-1083. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01783.x
  • Brede, N., Thielsch, A., Sandrock, C., Claßen, C., Spaak, P., Streit, B. & K. Schwenk. Microsatellite markers for European Daphnia. Molecular Ecology Notes 6 (2006): 536-539. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2005.01218.x