Biosystematics, informatics and genomics of the big 4 insect groups: training tomorrow's researchers and entrepreneurs

Projects

Alexey Solodovnikov

Genomics-based approaches to the eco-systematic study of insect biodiversity from fragile, endangered ecosystems
Objectives: Based on the advanced DNA-sequencing technologies, including those under development in the ESR project 1, the aim is to develop an accelerated way of extracting and preserving valuable systematic and evolutionary information for future g... show more
The Life on the island: leaf-litter insect fauna as a bioindicator of long and short term evolutionary change
Objectives: Adaptive radiations, including those on isolated islands, are widely recognized as generators of immense diversity of species, lifestyles and morphologies. Taxon-island systems studied in detail so far were mostly focused on vertebrates o... show more
Aleocharinae rove beetles of New Zealand: development of the accelerated workflow to study "dark taxa" in poorly known biodiversity hotspots
Objectives: To develop an efficient workflow combining morphospecies, DNA-barcoding, revisionary systematics, genomics and statistical phylogenetic approaches that would allow to overcome a hitherto non-passable "taxonomic impediment" hampe... show more
Integrating fossils and recent taxa in the study of rove beetles systematics
Objectives: With ca. 60,000 recent species, rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) are among the best examples of mega-diverse taxa that always were, and still are, super-challenging for systematic studies. All previous attempts to retrieve a relia... show more