Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem

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:

 

Honorary Appointments:

  • President, International Organisation of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
  • President, German National Committee of the International Union of the Biological Sciences (IUBS) and the International Union of the Microbial Societes (IUMS)
  • Vice President, International Society Diatomf or Diatom Research
  • Vice Speaker, Sektion Phykologie der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft
  • Leader, IUBS-Programme BioCode
  • Deputy Chair, IUBS Ethics Commission
  • Deputy Secretary, International Committe on Bionomenclature (ICB)
  • Member, Nomenclature Committee on Algae

 

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 (dissertation of Jonas Zimmermann, in cooperation with Birgit Gemeinholzer).
  • 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, partly financed by the Andrew-Mellon-Foundation).
  • 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)
  • Red List of Algae in Berlin (in cooperation with Wolf-Henning Kusber and Ursula Geissler)
  • The diatomflora of the Lerma River, Mexico (dissertation of Nélida Abarca; finished)
  • 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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