Collaborators

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BGI-Shenzhen, China

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) / Zentrum für Molekulare Biodiversitätsforschung (ZMB), Bonn, Germany

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany, Section Arthropoda

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Department of Biological Sciences

Smithsonian Institution, Wahington D.C. USA, Office of Research Information Services, CIO

FSU Jena, Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum Jena, Germany

Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde - POLLICHIA-Museum, Germany

Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB), Department of Entomology, Zoologische Staatssammlung, München, Germany

Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany / Scientific Computing, Exelixis Lab

  • Alexandros Stamatakis (Coordination 1KITE, Coordination of computing, data resources, and phylogenetic software development)
  • Tomas Flouri (Computing, data resources, and phylogenetic software development: dating of phylogenetic trees)
  • Alexey Kozlov (Computing, data resources, software development: tree inference)
  • Paschalia Kapli (Dating of phylogenetic trees, Polyneoptera)
  • Lucas Czech (Computing, data resources: tree inference)
  • Diego Darriba (Computing, data resources, and phylogenetic software development: tree inference, dating of phylogenetic trees)

Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Department für Evolutionsbiologie

Department of Animal Biodiversity

University of Tsukuba, Sugadaira Montane Research Center / Arthropod Comparative Embryology, Japan

Ehime University, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Japan

Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science ‘Kyororo’, Japan

Universität Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg, Germany

Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Curator Entomology, Germany

Medical and Biological Engineering Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Hull, UK

North Carolina State University, Department of Entomology, Wiegmann-Lab

California Academy of Sciences

Universität Bonn, Steinmann-Institut, Institut für Paläontologie, Germany

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany

Centre de Recherches sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P, UMR 7207), Sorbonne Universités & Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHM), Paris, France

Universität Bonn, Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Zooökologie, Germany

  • Lars Podsiadlowski (Transcriptome data management, Phylogenetic workflow)

University of Memphis, Department of Biological Sciences, Memphis, USA

University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Kahawara-Lab

  • Akito Y. Kawahara (Lepidoptera)
  • associated: Jesse Breinholt (Lepidoptera), current affiliation: RAPiD Genomics, Gainsville, USA

Wageningen University, Biosystematics, NL Biosystematics Group

CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC), Canberra, Australia

University of Freiburg, Biology I (Zoology), Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria

China Agricultural University, Bejing, China

Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health & College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering

Department of Entomology, Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Entomology

Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biólogicas y Agropecuarias, Centro de Estudios en Zoología, Zapopan, Jalisco, México

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS), Hymenoptera Section, Germany

Hokkaido University, Systematic Entomology / Yoshizawa Lab, Sapporo, Japan

Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Biosystematics, Auckland, New Zealand

1KITE Partners

collaborate with 1KITE for 1KITE related projects.

Taxonomic subprojects:
    • Matty Berg (Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Basal Hexapods)
    • Luis Mendes (Institute of Scientific Investigation of the Tropics, Lisbon, Portugal; Basal Hexapods)
    • Ulrich Burkhardt (Senckenberg Museum of Natural History, Görlitz, Germany; Basal Hexapods)
    • Dick Roelofs, Wouter Suring (VU University Amsterdam, Animal Ecology, Netherlands; Basal Hexapods)
    • Christian Derst, Boris Musset (Zool. Institut, Biozentrum Universität Köln / ICS-4 Zelluläre Biophysik Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; Basal Hexapods: proton channels)
    • Thomas Dejaco (University of Innsbruck, Molecular Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria; Basal Hexapods)
    • Simon Grove, Lynne Forster, Kevin Bonham (Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, TMAG, Hobart, Tasmania; Basal Hexapods, Antliophora)
    • Reinhard Predel (University of Cologne, Zoological Institute, Cologne Biocenter, Peptidome analysis, Cologne, Germany; Basal Hexapods, Polyneoptera)
    • Bjoern v. Reumont (University of Leipzig, Biosciences, Leipzig, Germany)
    • Christopher Hassall, Stuart Laurence, Phillip Matthews, M. Olalla Lorenzo-Carballa (School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, Biosciences Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Odonata)
    • Sven Bradler (Institut für Zoologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany; Phasmatodea)
    • Janice Edgerly-Rooks (Biology Department, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA; Polyneoptera)
    • Frank Wieland (University of Hamburg, Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Germany; Dictyoptera/Mantodea)
    • Gavin Svenson (Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio, USA; Dictyoptera/Mantodea)
    • Ming Bai (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Grylloblattodea)
    • Sean Schoville (Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA; Grylloblattodea)
    • Kevin Johnson (Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA; Paraneoptera)
    • Leo Beukeboom (Evolutionary Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; Hymenoptera)
    • Michael Ohl, Manuela Sann (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany; Hymenoptera)
    • Christoph Bleidorn (University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Hymenoptera)
    • Mareike Wurdack (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Crabronidae)
    • Thomas Schmitt (Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany; Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)
    • John Heraty (College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA; Hymenoptera)
    • David J. W. Morgan (California Department of Food and Agriculture, Riverside, CA, USA; Hymenoptera)
    • Eric Anton (FSU Jena; Jena, Germany; Coleoptera: evolution of adults head structures of Polyphaga)
    • Alexey Solodovnikov (Zoologisk Museum Copenhagen, Denmark; Coleoptera: follow-up project on Staphylinoidea)
    • Si-qin Ge (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Coleoptera: follow-up project on evolution of Chrysomeloidea)
    • Richard Leschen (Landcare Research, New Zealand Arthropod Collection; Coleoptera: follow-up projects on Staphylinoidea and Cucujiformia)
    • Michael Balke (Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Gemany: Coleoptera: follow-up project on Adphaga - main focus on aquatic groups)
    • Michael Shackleton (La Trobe University, Department of Environmental Management and Ecology, WODONGA, Victoria, Australia; Trichoptera)
    • Alice Wells (CSIRO, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Trichoptera)
    • Ferdy C. de Moor (Department of Freshwater Invertebrates, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa; Trichoptera)
    • Rudolf Meier (Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Diptera)
    • Urs Schmidt-Ott (Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, IL, USA; Diptera)
    • Gregory W. Courtney (Department of Entomology, Iowa State Insect Collection, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA; Diptera)
    • Gregory Curler (Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; Diptera)
    • Derek Sikes (Museum of the North, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA; Mecoptera)
    • Charles Mitter (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; Lepidoptera)

    Methods:
    • Lars Jermiin (Australian National University, ACT, Canberra, Australia; Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics, Modeling)
    • Robert Lanfear (Australian National University, ACT, Canberra, Australia; Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics)
    • Brett Calcott (ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Phylogenetics)

    1KITE related projects:
    • Sonja Grath (Department of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; DNA methylation islands in insect transcriptomes; Comparative analysis of the components of the insect immune system)
    • Erich Bornberg-Bauer (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Muenster, Germany; Domain evolution in insects)
    • Fatima Mitterboeck, Sarah J. Adamowicz, Jinzhong Fu (Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Evolutionary transcriptomics of flight loss in insects)
    • Hui Wang (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, UK; Distribution and diversity of insect viruses)
    • Hugh Robertson (Department of Entomology, University of Illinoi at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; Evolution or chemosensory system in insects: olfactory, gustatory, vision and "hearing" / comparative analysis of (olfactorial) receptor proteins)
    • Christian Drosten & Group (Institut für Virologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Distribution of viral genomes in insects with potential relatives in humans)
    • Lars Podsiadlowski (Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Zooökologie, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Evolution of Matrixin Metalloproteinases; Evolution of anti-microbial peptides in insects; Comparative analysis of the components of the insect immune system)
    • Lars Podsiadlowski, Thomas Bartolomaeus (Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Zooökologie, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Intermediate filament evolution in Hexapoda)
    • Marta Casanellas, Jesus Fernandez-Sanchez (Departament Matematica Aplicada I, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Application of GMM invariants to large transcriptomic data)
    • Xioanfan Zhou (Dept. of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Evolution or chemosensory system in insects: olfactory, gustatory, vision and "hearing" / comparative analysis of (olfactorial) receptor proteins)
    • Brian Y. Chow (University of Pennsylvania, Skirkanich, Philadelphia, USA), Ed Boyden (MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering, Camebridge, MA, USA), Susumu Yoshizawa (PostDoc, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Camebridge, MA, USA) and Gane Ka-Shu Wong (Katz Group Centre for Health and Pharmacy, University of Alberta, Canada); (Protein Characterization: optogenetic tools for bioengeniering, bioengineering, medicine, biology, and neuroscience from 1KITE transcriptome data)
    • Ewald Grosse-Wilde (Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany; Comparative analysis of (olfactorial) receptor proteins)
    • Jennifer Zaspel (Entomology, Purdue University, IN, USA; Evolution of detoxification systems and chemical communication in Lepidoptera)
    • Franziska Heidemann, Dietrich Ober (Biochemical Ecology and Molecular Evolution, University of Kiel, Germany: Evolution of detoxification systems and chemical communication in Lepidoptera)
    • Susanne Dobler, Kai Schütte, (University Hamburg; "Coping with toxic host plants": Identifying and characterizing enzymes and transporters for adaptations to secondary plant compounds)
    • Dietrich Ober, Phillipp Krohn (Biochemical Ecology and Molecular Evolution, University of Kiel, Germany: "Coping with toxic host plants": Identifying and characterizing enzymes and transporters for adaptations to secondary plant compounds - currently focused on Orthoptera)
    • Christoph Mayer, Jeanne Wilbrand, Bernhard Misof, Helena Isabel Vizan Rico (ZFMK; Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain: Occurrence of orthologous groups of digestive enzymes in insects)
    • Oliver Niehuis, Sarah Bank (University of Feiburg; Comparative analysis of genes involved in the biosynthesis of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) in insects)
    • Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou (BGI, China Agricultural University; Mitochondrial genome capture project from transcriptome data)