Scientific staff

Regine Jahn

Contact:
Dr. Regine JAHN
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50142, Fax: (+4930) 841729-42, E-mail: r.jahn [at] bgbm.org.

Functions:

Senior Curator, Algae
Head, Diatom Research Group
Co-editor, AlgaTerra Information System
Co-coordinator, GBIF Germany, Plants, Algae & Protists
Co-coordinator, EU-Project SYNTHESYS DE-TAF

Honorary Appointments (current):

President, International Society for Diatom Research
President, International Organisation of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
President, German National Committee for the International Union of the Biological Sciences (IUBS) and the International Union of the Microbial Societes (IUMS)
Vice Speaker, Sektion Phykologie der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft
Deputy Secretary, International Committe on Bionomenclature (ICB)
Member, Executive Committee, International Union of the Biological Sciences (IUBS)
Member, Nomenclature Committee on Algae
Editor of Journal Phytokeys, Algae section

Memberships in scientific societies:

International Organisation of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, President
International Society for Diatom Research, Vicepresident
Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Sektion Phykologie, Vice Speaker
Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
The Korean Society of Phycology
The Japanese Society of Diatomology
Central European Diatom Meeting (DDT), Organizer

Research interests:

Nomenclature of algae
Taxonomy and phylogeny of diatoms
Morphology of diatoms
Biogeography of diatoms
Changes in the biodiversity of freshwater diatoms
Diatoms as bioindicators
History of diatom research

Research projects:

Diatom DNA-Barcoding (DFG-Project of Jonas Zimmermann, in cooperation with Birgit Gemeinholzer and Gernot Glöckner).
Taxonomy and phylogeny of some diatom genera and species with morphological and molecular methods; i.e. Gomphonema (in coooperation with Nélida Abarca), Cocconeis (in cooperation with Oscar Romero), Surirellaceae, Nitzschiaceae (in cooperation with Jonas Zimmermann).
Morphology, taxonomy and nomenclature of Bacillaria sensu lato taxa (in cooperation with Anna-Maria Schmid, Austria).
Historical diatom-diversity in Lake Malawi and tributary waters, East Africa.
Surirellaceae of Africa (in cooperation with Christine Cocquyt, Belgium).
Typification of Otto Müller's taxa from East African material at B (in cooperation with Christine Cocquyt, Belgium).
Typification of Ehrenberg's taxa (in cooperation with Wolf-Henning Kusber, Horst Lange-Bertalot, Aloisie Poulickova, Christine Cocquyt, Irena Kaszmarska, Viola Huck)
The diatomflora of Korea (North and South)
Medium-term changes in the biodiversity of diatoms in Berlin waters: a comparison of old and new samples (diploma student Dörte Kanzler; finished).

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