SDEI Molekularlabor

Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut

Molekularlabor

Team

Leitung

Dr. Lara-Sophie Dey
Head of Molecular Laboratory

Positions

since September 2023

Head of the molecular laboratory at Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (SDEI)

June 2023 – August 2023

Head of the molecular laboratory (zmb) at Leibniz Institute for the analysis of biodiversity change

December 2022 – May 2023

Part-time technical assistant in the molecular lab (zmb) at Leibniz Institute for the analysis of biodiversity change

August 2021 – November 2022

PhD representative of Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels (Hamburg)

November 2020 –  July 2021

PhD representative of Center for Natural History Hamburg (CeNak)

since Febuary 2020

Co-Speaker of AG Junge Systematiker (JuSys) Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS)

April 2019 – April 2023

PhD student in the Department Entomology of CeNak Hamburg at University Hamburg (direct supervisor Dr. Martin Husemann)

September 2018 – December 2018

Student Assistant in the Department of Invertebrates II at CeNak Hamburg at University Hamburg detection of invasive crawfishes (Crustacea and Decapoda) in and around Hamburg

June 2018 – October 2018

Student Assistant in the Department of Arbovirologie at Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine Stechmücken Monitoring Deutschland (CuliMo), supervisor Linda Jaworski

August 2017 – April 2023

Student Assistant in the Department Entomology of CeNak Hamburg at University Hamburg (working with Orthoptera, direct supervisor Dr. Martin Husemann)

Febuary 2017 – June 2017

Student Assistant at UFZ Halle Tagfalter Monitoring Deutschland, supervisor Elisabeth Kühn

2014 – 2017

Student in the Department of General Zoology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (working with Orthoptera in the group of Prof. Dr. R. Paxton, direct supervisor Dr. Martin Husemann)

Awards and Fellowships

2022    

4th CETAF E-Score Award: “Analysis of geographic centrality and genetic diversity in the declining grasshopper species Bryodemella tuberculata (Orthoptera: Oedipodinae)”

DGfO grant for young scientists (2,000€)

Synthesys+ Call 4 NL-TAF: “Barcoding of Mediterranean grasshoppers”

2021    

Synthesys+ Call 3 NL-TAF: “Convergent Evolution of Oedipodinae”

2020    

3rd place at 21. Annual GfBS Meeting Poster award 2020 in Hamburg: “An evaluation of the Mediterranean species of the band-winged grasshoppper genus Acrotylus (Fieber, 1853) using DNA barcoding”

2019    

Doctoral scholarship – Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Doctoral scholarship – HmbNFG for the Promotion of Young Researchers and Artists

OSF grant supporting the project “Dead and Alive – New images of band-winged grasshoppers (Caelifera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) in the OSF” (2,176 USD)

Orthopterists’ Society: Theodore J. Cohn Research Fund (1,462.30 USD) supporting the project “Integrative taxonomic revision of the tribe Bryodemini Bey-Bienko, 1930”

2018    

OSF grant supporting the project “Dead and Alive – New images of band-winged grasshoppers (Caelifera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) in the OSF” (1,865 USD)

DGfO grant for young scientists (1,500 €)

2017    

DAAD – PROMOS fellowship of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (1,075 €)

DGfO grant for young scientists (1,500 €)

Winner of “International Outstanding student Poster award” on Conference of Biodiversity Research of Mongolia: “The power of DNA barcoding for species delimitation in the genus Sphingonotus”

2016    

Winner of ISINA “Best-Poster-Award”: “Biodiversitätshotspot Iran – Vielfalt der Gattung Sphingonotus”

2015    

Orthopterists’ Society: Theodore J. Cohn Research Fund (1,271 USD) “Phylogeography and evolution of the band-winged grasshopper genera Thalpomena Saussure 1884 and Pseudoceles Bolivar 1899”

2014    

Synthesys GB-TAF: “Phylogeography and Evolution of the genus Thalpomena”

Education

2019 – 2023      University of Hamburg: Doctoral degree in Biology
“Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses and distribution modelling of a challenging taxon – the band-winged grasshoppers”

2016 – 2019      Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale): Master of Science in Biology
“Divergence in and around the Atlas Mountains: Biogeography and Systematics of the North African band-winged grasshopper genus Thalpomena Saussure, 1884 and its allies”

2013 – 2016      Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale): Bachelor of Science in Biology
“The power of DNA barcoding for species delimitation in the two recently diverged grasshopper genera Sphingonotus Fieber, 1852 and Trimerotropis Stål, 1873”

2005 – 2013      Burger-Roland Gymnasium, Burg (b. Magdeburg)
A-Level

Published

Dey L-S & Willemse L (2023). Type catalogue of the Oedipodinae (Orthoptera: Arcididae) type specimens housed in Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden (Netherlands). Zootaxa 5315(4): 339–348, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5315.4.4

Hochkirch A, Dey L-S, & Husemann M (2023). Phylogeography of the grasshopper genus Oedipoda (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) in the Mediterranean: classic refugia and cryptic lineages. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 140(1): 85–95, DOI:10.1093/biolinnean/blad044

Gaugel SM, Hawlitschek O, Dey L-S & Husemann M (2023). Evolution of mitogenomic gene order in Orthoptera. Insect Molecular Biology 32(4): 387–399, DOI:10.1111/imb.12838

Hawlitschek O, Sadílek D, Dey L-S, Buchholz K, Noori S,4, Baez IL, Wehrt T, Brozio J, Trávníček P, Seidel M & Husemann M (2023). New estimates of genome size in Orthoptera and their evolutionary implications. Plos one, 18(3): e0275551, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0275551.

Ivković S, Dey LS, Buzzetti FM, Puskás G, Warchałowska‑Śliwa E, Horvat L, Chobanov D & Hochkirch A (2023). Strong intraspecific phylogenetic and karyotypic diversification in Isophya modestior (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 138(2): 194–203.

Dey L-S, Hochkirch A, Moussi A, Seidel M, & Husemann M (2022). Taxonomic review of the genus Thalpomena Saussure, 1884 with new synonyms. Zootaxa 5100(1): 129–136.

Dey L-S, Ueshima N, Weisman D & Husemann M (2022). Evolution of chromosome number in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 22: 649–657, DOI:10.1007/s13127-022-00543-1

Dey L-S, Hochkirch A, Moussi A, Simões MVP & Husemann M (2022). Diversification in and around the Atlas Mountains: insights into the systematics and biogeography of the genus Thalpomena Saussure, 1884. Systematic Entomology 47(3): 402–419. DOI:10.1111/syen.12537

Husemann M, Klesser R, Burgarth K, Hartung V, Weiß C, Timm R, Dey L-S, Wehrt T, Seidel M, Oltmann B & Beinke K (2021). Verbreitung der Bernsteinschabe Ectobius vittiventris in Deutschland mit dem formellen Erstnachweis für Niedersachsen. Articulata 36(1): 9–22.

Garbelmann K, Hawlitschek O, Dey L-S, Fuhrmann K, Schuhmacher O & Husemann M (2021). Die Heuschreckenfauna Pevestorfs (Lüchow-Dannenberg, Niedersachsen) und Umgebung basierend auf Sammlungsdaten von mehr als 10 Jahren – Artenzusammensetzung und Populationstrends. Articulata 36(1): 77–90.

Baltz LM, Stubbe M, Lkhagvasuren D & Dey L-S (2021). Zur molekularen Klassifizierung der mongolischen Kormorane Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758). Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia 2021(14): 285–294.

Baltz LM, Stubbe M, Lkhagvasuren D & Dey, L-S (2021). Der Kormoran (Phalacrocorax carbo) in der Mongolei. Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia 2021(14): 269–284.

Dey L-S, Seidel M, Lchagvasuren D & Husemann M (2021). Through the steppe to the desert: 50 years of faunistic survey of band-winged grasshoppers in Mongolia (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia 2021(14): 329–360.

Dey L-S, Simões MVP, Hawlitschek O, Sergeev M, Xu S-Q & Husemann M (2021). Analysis of genetic diversity and geographic centrality in the declining grasshopper species Bryodemella tuberculata (Fabricius, 1775) (Orthoptera: Oedipodinae). Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 2773–2796. DOI:10.1007/s10531-021-02221-8

Husemann M, Sadílek D, Dey L-S, Hawlitschek O & Seidel M (2021). New genome size estimates for band-winged and slant-faced grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae, Gomphocerinae) reveal the so far largest measured insect genome. Caryologia 73(4): 111–120. DOI:10.13128/caryologia-966

Dey L-S, Hochkirch A & Husemann (2021). Vergleich von Einzel-Gen-DNA-Barcoding und Multi-Gen-Analysen in der Gattung Sphingonotus (Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Articulata 35: 47-59.

Dey L-S, Husemann M, Hochkirch A & Simões MVP (2021). Species distribution modeling sheds light on the widespread distribution of Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) rubescens (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132(4): 912–924. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa230

Dey L-S & Husemann M (2021). Integrative taxonomic revision of the tribe Bryodemini Bey-Bienko, 1930 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Metaleptea 41(1): 10–12.

Husemann M, Dey L-S & Hawlitschek O (2020). Vespa velutina nigrithorax Lepeltier, 1836 from Hamburg (Northern Germany) shares the same COI haplotype with other European populations. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 79: 111–115.

Hochkirch A, Dey L-S, Husemann M & Pener (2019). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T107430957A107431275. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.20191.RLTS.T107430957A107431275.en

Husemann M & Dey L-S (2018). Dead and Alive – New images of band-winged grasshoppers (Caelifera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) in the OSF. Metaleptea 38(1), 17–18.

Dey L-S, Saboori A, Hodjat SH, Tork M & Husemann M (2018). A faunistic review of the Iranian species of Sphingonotus (Orthoptera, Oedipodinae) with a key to species. Zootaxa 4379(2): 151–176. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4379.2.1

Dey L-S, Husemann M (2018). An annotated catalogue of the types of short horned grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH). Evolutionary Systematics 2(1): 21–30. DOI:10.3897/evolsyst.2.22127

Dey L-S, Moussi A, Abba A, Klesser R, Petit D & Husemann M (2018). First barcoding records of the band-winged grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Oedipodinae) of the Biskra region of Algeria with new records for the country. African Zoology 53(1), 31–40. DOI:10.1080/15627020.2018.1463172

Dey L-S & Husemann M (2018). An annotated catalogue of the types of bush-crickets and crickets (Orthoptera, Ensifera) housed in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH). Evolutionary Systematics 2(1): 115–124. DOI:10.3897/evolsyst.2.27030

Dey L-S & Husemann M (2016). Morphological and biogeographical analyses of the genera Thalpomena and Pseudoceles. Metaleptea 36(1), 16–19.

 

In Preparation

Ivković I, Dey L-S, Horvat L, Iorgu I S, Buzzetti F M & Hochkirch A (submitted). The taxonomic status of recently described Isophya taxa from Serbia (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Dey L-S, Baez IL, Basilet C, Hawlitscheck O, Hochkirch A & Husemann M (in prep.). Revision of the South-African species of the genus Sphingonotus (Acrididae: Oedipodinae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.

Jumpertz L, Dey L-S, Hawlitschek O, Husemann M & Simões M (in prep.). Predicting the future of the ongoing invasion of the bush cricket Meconema meridionale (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Tettigoniidae). Insect Conservation and Diversity.

Wehrt T, Dey L-S, Felix R, Moussi A, Seyedi M, Hawlitschek O & Husemann M (in prep.). Six new mitochondrial genomes of the genus Acrotylus (Orthoptera: Oedipodinae).

Husemann M, Dey L-S & Hochkirch A (in prep.). Review of the taxonomic status of Canarian species of Sphingonotus with two new synonyms and an updated species list.

Felix R, Fontana P, Willemse L, Massa B, Sergeev MG, Odé B, Hawlitschek O, Husemann M, Dey L-S & Hemp C (in prep.). Orthoptera fauna of Morocco.

Dey L-S, Bruckner H, Randolph S, Schwendinger P & Husemann M (in prep.). Preliminary type catalogue of Oedipodinae housed in the Natural History Museum Vienna and Geneva.

Dey L-S & Husemann M (in prep.). Digitalization and Imaging of types of Oedipodinae described by Henri de Saussure (Collections of Natural History Museum Vienna and Geneva).

Dey L-S, Sergeev MG, Ozerov AL & Husemann M (in prep.). Preliminary type catalogue of the grasshopper species housed in the zoological collections of Moscow State University and Novosibirsk State University.

Dey L-S, Gorochov A & Husemann M (in prep.). Preliminary type catalogue of the Oedipodinae species housed in the collection of Zoological Museum St. Petersburg.

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Eva Kleibusch
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