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Regine Jahn
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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:
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:
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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