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Evolution Meeting 2018 (Montpellier, France)
Meeting great people, doing great science! Presented my work in collaboration with my former co-advisor Town Peterson, on
Visited Gomes-Zurita Lab in Barcelona
Greatly enjoyed the visit, which allowed the start of very cool projects on Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) communities in dry forests of Nicaragua
Automation of SDMs using KUENM
Finalized the script that will automate the modelling of more than 600 Crustacean species from the NW Pacific and Arctic. Great colab. with Marlon Cobos (University of Kansas). #RockChalk
Award from International Biogeography Society and IBS Early Career Committee
Received a travel award from IBS (International Biogeography Society), which will enable my attendance to the IBS meeting in Malaga (Jan, 2019).
New paper out!
Our paper on Eltonian noise hypothesis is out @thePeerJ. Understanding integration of biotic predictors on ecological niche models. DOI: https://peerj.com/articles/6052/
Species from the Neotropical Ichenumonid (wasp) genus Hapsinotus, named after me !
Best birthday gift ever. Thank you Mabel!
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2018.42
International Biogeography Society 2019 Malaga, Spain
Presented some exciting preliminary results on our Beneficial project:
Anja Biging visits the Lab
20th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (Society for Biological Systematics, GfBS)
Hermann Wilkomm-Stiftung Grant
Yes! Guaranteed funds to attend The Crustacean Society Mid Summer Meeting 2019. Thanks to Goethe University !#TCSmidsummermeeting2019.
Crustacean Society Meeting 2019 Hong Kong
Great meeting of the Crustacean Society hosted at the The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Presented exciting results of our Beneficial Project at Senckenberg Research Institute, on the assessment of crustaceans vulnerability under climate change scenarios; understanding distributional shifts of invasive species to the Arctic and Northwest Pacific
Starts as curator at the Zoological Museum Hamburg, part of the Center for Natural History (CeNak) - University of Hamburg, Germany.
I move to Hamburg in mid-October. Can’t wait to get out there and start work in such a cool, amazingly rich collection….with so much to do!
Received the Juan de La Cierva post-doctoral fellowship !
Very prestigious fellowship for post-docs in Spain
Surprise colloquium at the CeNak
Surprise talk at the Cenak colloquium. had the opportunity to talk and advertise my research interests to potential new students.
Visit to Senckenberg Messel: New cassidinae fossil!
Had the pleasure of working at the Messel fossil collection. So much work! Went through all #leafbeetles fossils, and we now have #five new #tortoisebeetle fossils! I also had the opportunity to visit the Messel pit, declared #UNESCO Heritage site.
The Lab brings the institute to the field!
Workshop on field methods is offered to the technitions of the institute. fun fun fun funnnnn
New paper out: ENM Manual
Collaboratio with KU Lab, we created an easy manual with the basic routines used in this field and a practical example of its implementation to promote good practices and guidance for new users
New paper out: Evolution of Subsociality in Cassidinae
Michele thesis is finally published! Great contributionon the eveolution of subsociality in tortoise-beetles.
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12434
Congrats Michele!!
New Paper out: Biodiversity and distribution patterns of deep-sea fauna along the temperate NW Pacific
great collaboration with hanieh Saeedi and angelika Brandt (Senckenberg Frankfurt) . DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102296
Improving our systems: Digitazation
the Section finally aquired a Supernova lightneing system,enabling taking better pictures of very small specimens.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
On behalf of the Coleoptera Lab at the SDEI, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a safe, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
2020 has been crazy and definitely, eventful! Certainly not the best year for many. But I am grateful for all the [old and new] friends and colleagues that have helped to make this year a bit less weird and hectic, despite these difficult times.
Here’s to better times ahead for everyone! Stay healthy & take care.
The Lab joins ECN : Virtual Collections Tour
The lab joins and presents our Institute’s collection in the Symposium Virtual Collections Tour at teh Entomological Collections Network! Such a fun initiative. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0JY83xFj7k
New paper out: Cassidinae Catalog
So happy this is out result of the digitazation of the tortoise beetle collection at the cenak! DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.191
New paper out: ENMTools
Essential software package update. ENMTools was introduced in 2008 as a platform for making measurements on environmental niche models and now is one of the main tools used to explore niche evolution, shift and measurements of dynamics. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05485
Methods Filed Workshop 2021
another year, another workshop. Great fun to be out in the field with great entomologisits
New paper out: SDM and Sphingonothus (Orthoptera)
Great project and collaboration with the CeNak team. Congratulations Lara! DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa230
New paper out: Testing Niche centrality Hypothesis
Comprehensive geographic and genetic datasets allowed us to test potential causes of extinction of populations of Bryodemella tuberculata (Orthoptera: Oedipodinae) in southern germany. Great team work. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-021-02221-8
Field work at the Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, RJ
New paper out: Biodiverity patterns of Iranian reptiles
Interesting to apply methods I learned to study marine orgnaisms to access biodiversity patterns in terrestrial groups. Here’s to interdisciplinarity! Congrats Sajad DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12528
New paper out: Systematics and Ecological niche of Thalpomena (Orthoptera)
Once again, great collaboration with the team at CeNak. Diversification in and around the Atlas Mountains: Genetic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation reveal insights into the systematics and biogeography of the genus Thalpomena (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12537
ENTOI goes to Costa Rica!
Field with Uni Potsdam
First official day as Head of Entomology I at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum and Researh Institute Frankfurt
Congratulations to the newest PhD candidate
Adriana Mota is the newest PhD student at the prestigious Federal University of Paraná.
Project: “Morphological evolution associated with Maternal care in Mesomphaliini”
¡ Colombia!
The Lab visits all the amazing entomological collections in Bogota with Juan Pablo Botero
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
¡Colombia!
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
¡Colombia!
Instituto Humboldt
Villa de Leyva
Congratulations to Adriana Mota !
Ernst Mayr Travel Grant in Animal Systematics & 3-month Senckenberg Global Fellowship!
Congrats to Marcos Krull!
Recently awarded 6 months Global South Felllowship! Project: Predicting the rate of spread of invasive insects using open and citizen science data
ENTOI receives the 2024 Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant!
Project: Towards a stable classification of Cassidini Chapuis (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) using low-coverage whole genome sequencing
DFG Grant Unlocked!
Student Helper will soon be open
Project: Trait evolution, biome shifts, and spatiotemporal diversification in Neotropical tortoise beetles
ENTOI - Summer Field
In the search for Cassida vibex and Cassida rubiginosa, we achieved 100% success!
Paul Ungerer Stiftung Unlocked!
Project: Exploring Plant-Insect Interactions: A DNA metabarcoding approach on herbarium specimens to detect insect interactions through feeding marks and galls
ENTOI - Peru Expedition
Amazing expediton!
More than 45 tortoise beetle spp. in 6 days of field
Many projects ahead!
140,000 beetles!!!
The ENTOI receives a donation of 140,000 beetles from Mali!
Large strides towards 2 Million in the ENTOI collection!
ENTOI joins forum
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