BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Arab Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230101 TZNAME:Arab Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Host: Prof. Manuel \;Ignacio Aranda LastraAbstract:The worl d's oceans are the cradle of life on our \nplanet\, they host the highest diversity of species\, and provide highly \nvaluable ecosystem services to humankind. The Indo-Pacific is the \nworld's largest marine biogeographic region\, covering tropical and \nsubtropical waters from the Red Sea and western Africa to the Easter \nIslands in the eastern Pacific. Although th e marine environment is under\n severe pressure due to unsustainable resou rce extraction and the \neffects of climate change\, the diversity of spec ies and their \nbiogeographic ranges are\, for example across the Indo-Pac ific\, still \nsurprisingly underexplored. This especially applies to many marine \ninvertebrates that provide essential ecosystem functions\, such as \nsponges. However\, knowledge about the spatio-temporal distribution a nd \nchanges of species distributions is needed to effectively manage and \nconserve marine resources.In this lecture I will present an \noverview o f our work on Indo-Pacific marine invertebrates and showcase \nhow we use DNA barcoding\, genomics and transcriptomics to unravel the \nspecies dive rsity and evolution of sponges\, placozoans\, and \ncrown-of-thorns seasta rs (COTS). I will show that the Indo-Pacific \nspecies diversity of sponge s\, placozoans\, and COTS is still \nunderestimated because high levels of regional endemism are apparent. \nHowever\, many species are morphologica lly indistinguishable (i.e.\, \ncryptic) and can only be detected by analy zing gene and genome data. \nEspecially the Red Sea is home to endemic spe cies\, and I will provide an\n example of a new Red Sea species of crown-o f-thorns seastars from Saudi\n Arabia. A deeper and more detailed understa nding of species diversity \nand their geographic distribution will advanc e a better appreciation of \nregional biogeographic differences and aid in developing more \nfine-scaled management and conservation of marine resou rces. Bio:Gert Wörheide is Professor (Chair) for Geobiology at the Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. He is also the Director of the Bavar ian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology and the Paleontological Museum in Munich (Germany). He received his Dr. rer. nat.in Geobiology in early 1998 at the University of Göttingen in Germany. After a PostDoc at the Queensland Museum and the University of Queensland in Brisbane (Austra lia) he returned to Göttingen in 2002 as a Junior Professor for Molecular Geobiology. In 2008 he took up the full Professorship in Munich and served the Faculty of Geosciences of the LMU as Dean and Vice-Dean from 2011 to 2021. In 2013 he co-founded the international Master’s Program "Geobiology &\; Paleobiology" at the LMU. Since 2019 he is an elected member of th eAcademia Europea\, the European Academy of Sciences.Gert’s research group focusses on the biodiversity and evolution primarily of marine organisms and their symbionts\, and on the evolution of biomineralization\, with spe cial focus on sponges and (octo)corals. He has published more than 200 art icles in leading international journals.More on Gert Wörheide’s work can b e found here http://www.geobiology.euPublications (ORCID: 0000-0002-6380-7 421 | Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/sgLPv)H-index (05.09.2022) Google Scho lar: 61 (13.260 citations)\; Scopus: 50 (8.759 citations)see also ImpactSt ory https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-6380-7421 DTEND:20220926T093000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T200016Z DTSTART:20220926T083000Z LOCATION:Auditorium Btw 2&3 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:(Molecular) Biodiversity and Evolution of spineless Indo-Pacific ma rine animals UID:RFCALITEM638472636164868907 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Host: Prof. Manuel \;I gnacio Aranda Lastra
Abstract:
The world's ocean
s are the cradle of life on our \nplanet\, they host the highest diversity
of species\, and provide highly \nvaluable ecosystem services to humankin
d. The Indo-Pacific is the \nworld's largest marine biogeographic region\,
covering tropical and \nsubtropical waters from the Red Sea and western A
frica to the Easter \nIslands in the eastern Pacific. Although the marine
environment is under\n severe pressure due to unsustainable resource extra
ction and the \neffects of climate change\, the diversity of species and t
heir \nbiogeographic ranges are\, for example across the Indo-Pacific\, st
ill \nsurprisingly underexplored. This especially applies to many marine \
ninvertebrates that provide essential ecosystem functions\, such as \nspon
ges. However\, knowledge about the spatio-temporal distribution and \nchan
ges of species distributions is needed to effectively manage and \nconserv
e marine resources.
In this lecture I will present an \noverview of our work on Indo-Pacific marine invertebrates and showcase \nhow we us e DNA barcoding\, genomics and transcriptomics to unravel the \nspecies di versity and evolution of sponges\, placozoans\, and \ncrown-of-thorns seas tars (COTS). I will show that the Indo-Pacific \nspecies diversity of spon ges\, placozoans\, and COTS is still \nunderestimated because high levels of regional endemism are apparent. \nHowever\, many species are morphologi cally indistinguishable (i.e.\, \ncryptic) and can only be detected by ana lyzing gene and genome data. \nEspecially the Red Sea is home to endemic s pecies\, and I will provide an\n example of a new Red Sea species of crown -of-thorns seastars from Saudi\n Arabia. A deeper and more detailed unders tanding of species diversity \nand their geographic distribution will adva nce a better appreciation of \nregional biogeographic differences and aid in developing more \nfine-scaled management and conservation of marine res ources.
Bio:
Gert
Wörheide is Professor (Chair) for Geobiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Un
iversität (LMU) Munich. He is also the Director of the Bavarian State Coll
ections for Paleontology and Geology and the Paleontological Museum in Mun
ich (Germany). He received his Dr. rer. nat.in Geobiology in early 1998 at
the University of Göttingen in Germany. After a PostDoc at the Queensland
Museum and the University of Queensland in Brisbane (Australia) he return
ed to Göttingen in 2002 as a Junior Professor for Molecular Geobiology. In
2008 he took up the full Professorship in Munich and served the Faculty o
f Geosciences of the LMU as Dean and Vice-Dean from 2011 to 2021. In 2013
he co-founded the international Master’s Program "Geobiology &\; Paleob
iology" at the LMU. Since 2019 he is an elected member of the
Academia
Europea\, the European Academy of Sciences.
Gert’s research group focus
ses on the biodiversity and evolution primarily of marine organisms and th
eir symbionts\, and on the evolution of biomineralization\, with special f
ocus on sponges and (octo)corals. He has published more than 200 articles
in leading international journals.
More on Gert Wörheide’s work can be
found here http://www.geobiology.eu
Publications (ORCI
D: 0000-0002-6380-7421 | Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/sgLPv)
H
-index (05.09.2022) Google Scholar: 61 (13.260 citations)\; Scopu
s: 50 (8.759 citations)
see also ImpactStory https://impactstory.org/u/
0000-0002-6380-7421