A Backbone for the Peracarida is an international collaboration of museums and universities working to resolve the phylogeny of one of Earth's most astonishingly diverse animal groups by uniting the work and collections of peracarid biologists worldwide.
Aurélien De Jode — PostDoc
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Samantha Antonio — BS student
Victoria Vandersommen — MS student
Juliana Granados — BS/MS student
Ryan Moinazad — BS/MS student
Will Farris — post BS/MS student
Ethan Kahn — post BS/PhD student
Aiko Abo Dominguez — post BS/PhD student
Naomi Rodriguez — post BS/MS student
Curator, Crustacea
martin.schwentner@nhm.at
Anna-Chiara Barta — PhD student, University of Vienna, Natural History Museum of Vienna
Project: Phylogeny and Evolution of Peracarida (Crustacea)
Lena Ulrich — MS student, University of Vienna, Natural History Museum of Vienna
Project: Phylogenomic Study of Phreatoicidea
Professor für Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie
Markus Grams — PostDoc, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie
Project: Transformations in the evolution of Peracarida
markus.mendes-grams@uni-rostock.de
Christopher Schreier — PhD Student, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie
Project: Glaciation-Driven Diversification and Speciation in Tasmanian Freshwater Isopods (Phreatoicidea) – a comparative phylogeography approach
Emma Palacios Theil — Adjunct Professor
Project: EHo-ShA - Evolutionary History of Shallow and Deep-Sea Apseudomorpha (Tanaidacea: Peracarida) (NCN OPUS 2023/49/B/NZ8/04237)
emma.palaciostheil@biol.uni.lodz.pl
Aleksandra Jakiel — Adjunct Professor
Kamila Głuchowska — PhD student
Dissertation: Genetic Basis of Deep-Sea Adaptations in Crustaceans of the Order Tanaidacea
Saskia Brix
Professor, Senckenberg am Meer, Hamburg
saskia.brix-elsig@senckenberg.de
Angelika Brandt
Professor, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt
Henrick Glenner
Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen
Kenneth Meland
Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen
Anne-Helene Tandberg
University Museum of Bergen
anne-helene.tandberg@uib.no