Events

American Museum of Natural History, New York City

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque

Burke Museum, Seattle

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

Co-funded by:

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

National Science Centre (NCN): PRELUDIUM-21

Photos by: K. Koszela

Lecture days:

Camilo Guzman: Historical habitats changes shaped the species diversity in Neolindus genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Katarzyna Koszela: The first attempt to build Staphylinidae phylogeny using UCEs 

Alexandra Tokareva: First genus-level phylogeny of Paederinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) based on genomic data: preliminary results

Dagmara Żyła: Next-generation sequencing as a tool to study Paederus-Pseudomonas symbiotic relationships

Co-funded by:

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela

Visit the entomological collection in the Natural History Museum of Geneva

Lecture day:

Camilo Guzman: A new enophthalmous species of the genus Micranops from Bolivia and discussion on adaptations to endogean habitats in Paederinae

Katarzyna Koszela: Karillantu gen. nov. - out of the darkness. A new genus of Paederinae

Alexandra Tokareva: Fighting the taxonomic impediment in Staphylinidae with fresh means: RADSeq, barcodes, morphology, and palaeontology versus hyperdiverse genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 (Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

Dagmara Żyła: Paederinae of Ecuador

Excursion to: Chancy

Photos by: K. Koszela

Co-funded by:

SYNTHESYS+

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela

Lectures:

Guzman Y. C., Tokareva A., Żyła D.: New species of the genus Neolindus Scheerpeltz, 1933 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cylindroxystina): current and future distribution models.

Tokareva A., Żyła D.: The new miniature genus of Paederinae from Cretaceous: Phylogenetic placement and discussion on unique characters.

Workshop: hDNA NGS Shotgun Sequencing from Insect Museum Specimens

Symposium: Perspectives and Challenges in hDNA analyses from insect museum specimens 

Co-funded by:

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela

Lecture day:

Dagmara Żyła: The challenge of studying megadiversity: the past and the present of rove beetles through phylogenetic analysis

Camilo Guzman: What do the rove beetles (Staphylinidae) do in the palms?

Practical exercises in the field: Katarzyna Koszela, Lech Karpiński

Identification: Dagmara Żyła

Photos by: K. Koszela, D. Żyła & María Cristina Peñuela Mora

Visit to the entomological collection in National Museum in Prague

Lecture day:

Dagmara Żyła: Rare and poorly known Afrotropical Paederinae, oral presentation

Katarzyna Koszela: The utility of UCEs in Staphylinidae phylogenomics, oral presentation

Alexandra Tokareva: The new miniature extinct genus of Paederinae from Cretaceous: phylogenetic placement and discussion on unique characters, oral presentation

Camilo Guzman: New species of Neolindus and where to find them, poster

Excursion to: Raná - Hrádek Natura 2000 site and Borečský Vrch Natura 2000 site

Photos by: K. Koszela, D. Żyła & A. Solodovnikov

During our field trip to the Caucasus, we took part in a BioBlitz as the Staphylinidae experts. 

The events were organized as part of the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBOL) project in

Yerevan Botanical Garden (Armenia) and National Botanical Garden in Tbilisi (Georgia)

Photos by: K. Koszela & D. Żyła

Co-funded by:

SYNTHESYS+

Ernst Mayr Travel Grant

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela & D. Żyła

Co-funded by:

SYNTHESYS+

Ernst Mayr Travel Grant

National Science Centre (NCN): OPUS-18 2019/35/B/NZ8/03431

Photos by: K. Koszela & D. Żyła