Dr. Caroline Chimeno

Chimeno et al., 2023, Figure 1. Three-level sorting workflow that was used in this study for bulk sample processing

Caroline was a doctoral candidate working at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich and Baranov's lab (EBD, Sevilla) as well as a coordinator of the GBOL III: Dark Taxa. She has succesfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Addressing the hidden diversity of German dark taxa using innovative technologies" on 19th of February 2024.

Her work as a doctoral student was focused on integrative taxonomy and biomonitoring of hyperdiverse group of Chironomidae (non-biting midges). In the previous GBOL II project, her research were focused on the application of DNA barcoding in the field of forensic entomology. Together with Viktor, Caroline was researching more efficient ways to monitor diversity of the extremely diverse and abundant flies, such as Chironomids.

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Selected publications

Chimeno, C., Rulik, B., Manfrin, A., Kalinkat, G., Hölker, F., & Baranov, V. (2023). Facing the infinity: tackling large samples of challenging Chironomidae (Diptera) with an integrative approach. PeerJ, 11, e15336.
Andersen, T., Höcherl, A., Hübner, J., Chimeno, C., Lin, X., & Baranov, V. (2023). New species and records of Pseudochironomini Sæther, 1977 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Dominican Republic. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11, e111925.
Chimeno, C., Hausmann, A., Schmidt, S., Raupach, M. J., Doczkal, D., Baranov, V., ... & Hebert, P. D. (2022). Peering into the darkness: DNA barcoding reveals surprisingly high diversity of unknown species of Diptera (Insecta) in Germany. Insects, 13(1), 82.
Chimeno, C., Hübner, J., Seifert, L., Morinière, J., Bozicevic, V., Hausmann, A., ... & Müller, J. (2023). Depicting environmental gradients from Malaise trap samples: Is ethanol‐based DNA metabarcoding enough?. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 16(1), 47-64.
Chimeno, C., Schmidt, S., Cancian de Araujo, B., Perez, K., von Rintelen, T., Schmidt, O., ... & Balke, M. (2023). Abundant, diverse, unknown: Extreme species richness and turnover despite drastic undersampling in two closely placed tropical Malaise traps. Plos one, 18(8), e0290173.
Chimeno, C., Schmidt, S., Hamid, H., Narakusumo, R. P., Peggie, D., Balke, M., & de Araujo, B. C. (2023). DNA barcoding data release for the Phoridae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Halimun-Salak National Park (Java, Indonesia). ARPHA Preprints, 4, e105258.