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Home -> What's new March 2010: National Science Foundation funds Hairworm Biodiversity Survey of the New World.
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Hairworm Biodiversity
Survey Team a grant of $578,176 to study the diversity and systematics
of hairworms in the Americas. The grant is entitled: "Unraveling a
Gordian knot: Biodiversity of Gordian worms, phylum Nematomorpha, in the New World".
June
2009: Filling geographical gaps.
Andreas
Schmidt-Rhaesa collaborated with colleagues from countries, from which
no or
only very rare information of the nematomorph fauna were known. These
are:
June
2009: Seminar at the University
On
June 3,
Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa gave a talk in the Evolutionary Biology Seminar
at the
University Bielefeld, Germany entitled: “Manipulation
of hosts by parasites and possible consequences for the
evolution of the hosts. Example: horsehair worms (Nematomorpha)“.
March 2009: Nematomorph seminar presented at
the Zoology Department at Oklahoma State University.
The Department of Zoology at the Oklahoma State
University hosted a department seminar by Ben Hanelt
entitled: “Untying a Gordian knot: The biology of freshwater
nematomorphs”. Ben was hosted by Matt and Melissa Bolek.
October 2008: Two
new gordiid species collected from Africa.
Ben Hanelt spent six weeks in the field near Kisumu
Kenya working on an NIH-funded schistosome project. During
this time, Ben was able collect snails infected with two different
gordiid cysts. Upon return to the laboratory, he and Matt
Bolek infected crickets with these snails. Adult worms
recovered from the crickets revealed the two cyst types to represent
two previously unknown gordiid species.
August 2008: Undergraduate student
awarded travel grant and presents paper at
American Society of Parasitologists.
At the The 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Society
of Parasitologists (ASP) in Arlington Texas, Whitney Doerfert presented
an oral presentation entitled: The Chosen Frozen: Cold-Tolerance and
Survival of Paragordius
varius (Nematomorpha:Gordiida) Larvae. Whitney
is an undergraduate researcher at the University of New Mexico, in Ben
Hanelt's lab. To present this work, Whitney was awarded (by
ASP) with a prestigious Marc Dresden Travel Grant.
To read the abstract (as a pdf), click here. October
2007: New species and records from
Japanese nematomorphs.
An
invitation to investigate nematomorphs around Lake Biwa in Southern
Japan led
to an ongoing collaboration of Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa with several
Japanese
colleagues, during which one new species could be described and two
species
were determined that were unknown to Japan.
To see an abstract of work resulting from this collaboration, click here. |
© Copyright 2010 Ben Hanelt, Matt Bolek, and Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa Updated: May 2010 |