SDEI
Dr. Lara-Sophie Dey
Head of Lab
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
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
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.
Eva Kleibusch
Technical Assistant
