apl.-Prof. Birgit Gemeinholzer - Forschungsinformationssystem | Universität Kassel

Prof. Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer

Research Interest

- Metabarcoding of plants
- Population genetic analyses of endangered plants
- Biological data accessibility

Academic background

1989-1993 study of horticulture at the Technical College Berlin (Dipl. Ing. (FH) Horticulture)

1994-1995 Master of Science at the University and the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh/GB

1996-2000 Scientific employee at the University Heidelberg

2000 PhD at the University Heidelberg (Reconstruction of the molecular phylogeny of the Solanaceae)

2001-2004 Postdoc at the Institute for Plant Breeding and Crop Plant Research (IPK-Gatersleben)

2004-2010 Scientific employee at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (Free

University Berlin), head of the molecular laboratory

2010-2020 Akademische Rätin at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

2012 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Systematics and Biodiversity Research of Plants

2017 Appointment as Extraordinary Professor at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

Since 2021 Ordinary Professor at the University Kassel

Publications

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2017	Jahn, R., Abarca, N., Gemeinholzer, B., Mora, D., Skibbe, O., Kulikovskiy, M., Gusev, E., Kusber, W.-H., Zimmermann, J., 2017. Planothidium lanceolatum and Planothidium frequentissimum reinvestigated with molecular methods and morphology: four new species and the taxonomic importance of the sinus and cavum. Diatom Research 32, 75–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/0269249X.2017.1312548Reiker, J., Schulz, B., Wissemann, V., Gemeinholzer, B., 2015. Does origin always matter? Evaluating the influence of nonlocal seed provenances for ecological restoration purposes in a widespread and outcrossing plant species. Ecology and Evolution 5, 5642–5651. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1817
2017	Kilian, N., Sennikov, A., Wang, Z.-H., Gemeinholzer, B., Zhang, J.-W., 2017. Sub-Paratethyan origin and Middle to Late Miocene principal diversification of the Lactucinae (Compositae: Cichorieae) inferred from molecular phylogenetics, divergence-dating and biogeographic analysis. Taxon 66, 675–703. https://doi.org/10.12705/663.9Zimmermann, J., Gloeckner, G., Jahn, R., Enke, N., Gemeinholzer, B., 2015. Metabarcoding vs. morphological identification to assess diatom diversity in environmental studies. Molecular Ecology Resources 15, 526–542. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12336
2016	Stille, J.S., Stuessy, T.F., Dickore, W.B., Jaeger, M.C., Gemeinholzer, B., Wissemann, V., 2016. Comparative pappus micromorphology of edelweiss (Leontopodium, Gnaphalieae, Asteraceae) with implications for taxonomy, ecology and evolution. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 182, 612–636. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12472Gemeinholzer, B., 2014. Datenspeicherung und Vernetzung – Taxonomie und OMICS (Data storage and networking – Taxonomy and OMICS), in: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. (Hrsg.), Challenges and Opportunities of Integrative Taxonomy for Research and Society. Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V., Halle, S. TBD.
2016	Schmidt, B., Gemeinholzer, B., Treloar, A., 2016. Open Data in Global Environmental Research: The Belmont Forum’s Open Data Survey. PLoS ONE 11, e0146695. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146695Droege, G., Barker, K., Astrin, J.J., Bartels, P., Butler, C., Cantrill, D., Coddington, J., Forest, F., Gemeinholzer, B., Hobern, D., Mackenzie-Dodds, J., Ó Tuama, É., Petersen, G., Sanjur, O., Schindel, D., Seberg, O., 2014. The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Portal. Nucleic Acids Research 42, D607–D612. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt928
2016	Gemeinholzer, B., Droege, G., Barker, K., Seberg, O., Coddington, J., Benson, E., Berendsohn, W.G., Bunk, B., Butler, C., Cawsey, E.M., Decke, J., Doring, M., Flemons, P., Guentsch, A., Hollowell, T., Kelbert, P., Kostadinov, I., Kottmann, R., Lawlor, R.T., Lyal, C., Mackenzie-Dodds, J., Meyer, C., Mulcahy, D., Nussbeck, S.Y., O’Tuama, E., Orrell, T., Petersen, G., Robertson, T., Soehngen, C., Whitacre, J., Wieczorek, J., Yilmaz, P., Zetzsche, H., Zhang, M., Zhou, X., 2016. The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Standard specification. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation baw125. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baw125Tremetsberger, K., Gemeinholzer, B., Zetzsche, H., Blackmore, S., Kilian, N., Talavera, S., 2013. Divergence time estimation in Cichorieae (Asteraceae) using a fossil-calibrated relaxed molecular clock. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 13, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-012-0094-2
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