Exhausted funded Projects

1. 2005-2008: Project on the mouthparts of gammarids – DFG-funded

This project started as an EU-funded project on invader species in the lake Constance (Bodensee), which ran from summer 2005 to summer 2008. The work was mainly done by Gerd Mayer, Ulm, in the form of collections and SEM investigations of the different limbs of several species, particularly the invader Dikerogammarus villosus. Our parter was Gerhard Maier, a limnologist from Ulm and specialist for freshwater crustaceans and many more things. A first paper is out (see list of references), a second is in press. Two more, together with Gerhard Maier und substrate preferences and predation are in press or submitted. Now Gerd will investigate more gammarids living in Germany for an extended comparison between all the species.

2. 2005–2010: MolMorph – EU funded

This project, in cooperation with Steffen Harzsch (now in Greifswald), was part of an EU Marie-Curie Early-Stage Programme to train PhD students. In the frame of this project we have aquired three students:

Liu Yu from Kunming, Province of Yunnan, China – successully finished his dissertation in 2009, and

Silvia Sintoni, who also moved to Jena to continue her work in Steffen Harzsch's lab – successully finished his dissertation in 2010
Silvia has given birth to a girl in summer 2009

A 12-month position announced in the same project, has been filled by Christopher Castellani. His duty was to study our new Cambrian pentastomid material collected in 2004 in Västergötland, Sweden; the manuscript on this is submitted to Palaeontographica

3. 2005–2007: DFG funded project on crustacean fossils as testtools for phylogenies

Our project within this DFG Priority Programm ran from fall 2005 and included the study of ontogeny of several 'Orsten' stem crustaceans by Joachim Haug as part of his doctorate thesis. This summer we were kicked out – as the only palaeo-based, deep-time project in the entire programme! It was really funny.

3. 2001–2005 DFG Bundle Project on micro- and macrofauna of the Yangtze Plate shelf, China

4. 1999–2002 DFG funded project on Orsten Phosphatocopina

This project supporting Andreas Maas for his PhD thesis working on the Upper Cambrian Phosphatocopina. Published as a big monograph in Fossils & Strata 2003 and in a shorter paper in 2006.

5. 1998–2000 DFG funded project on Rotifera

This project was supporting Wilko Ahrichs in a postdoc study on Rotatoria.

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Last revision: June 22, 2010