Dr.
Martin Schwentner
Phylogeny, biogeography and diversity of Spinicaudata and other Branchiopoda
Populationgenomics of deep-sea Amphipoda
Third Party Funding including Stipends
2018 Project “ Mapping invasive Crustacea in Hamburg” financed by the die Behörde für Energie und Umwelt (Hamburg)
2018 DAAD stipend for participating in the 9th International Crustacean Conference in Washington D.C.
2015 Fenner-Chase Fund for field work in Belize awarded by the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University
2015 Forschungstipendium (Research Fellowship) awarded by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Science Foundation) for PostDoc at Harvard University
2010 Denton Belk Memorial Award awarded by The Crustacean Society, financing the participation at the „7th International Crustacean Congress 2010“ in China
2009 Postgraduate Award of the Australian Museum (Sydney) to finance a field trip to Australia
2009 PhD Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
2009 PhD Scholarship by the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Landesgraduierten Stipendium Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
2004 - 2008 Graduate studies at the Universität Rostock (Germany) with major in Zoology
2006 - 2007 six month internship at the University of Otago, NZ; assisting the group of Prof. C. Townsend and Ass. Prof. Gerry Closs in various experiments
2007 - 2008 Diploma thesis ‘Spinicaudata of Australia: Diversity and Phylogeography’, supervised by Prof. Dr. S. Richter and Dr. R. Bastrop, Universität Rostock
2008 - 2013 PhD thesis: ‘Diversity and Population Structure of Australian Spinicaudata’, supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Richter, Universität Rostock (Germany); handed in 1st November 2012
2014 Postdoctoral researcher at Christian-Albrecht Universität Kiel in the lab of Prof. Bosch, financed by the German Science Foundation
2015 - 2017 Postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University in the lab of Prof. Giribet, financed by a Research Fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
2017 - 2019 Interim/substitute professor, department Invertebrates II (Crustacea and Polychaeta), Centre of Natural History (CeNak), University of Hamburg
since 2019 Curator collection Crustacea, Natural History Museum, Vienna
Bober, J., Brandt, A., Frutos, I., Schwentner, M. (2019): Diversity and distribution of Ischnomesidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench - A Gentic perspective. Progress in Oceanography 178: 102174.
Guggolz, T., Meißner, K., Schwentner, M., Brandt, A. (2019): Diversity and distribution of Laonice species (Annelida: Spionidae) in the tropical North Atlantic and Puerto Rico Trench. Scientific Reports 9: 9260.
Gerdes, K., Martínez Arbizu, P., Schwentner, M., Kihara, T. C. (2019): Detailed Mapping of Hydrothermal Vent Fauna: A 3D Reconstruction Approach Based on Video Imagery. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: 96.
Schwentner, M., Richter, S., Rogers, D. C., Giribet, G. (2018): Tetraconatan phylogeny with special focus on Malacostraca and Branchiopoda: highlighting the strength of taxon-specific matrices in phylogenomics. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 285: 20181524.
Schwentner, M., Giribet, G. (2018): Phylogeography, species delimitation and population structure of a Western Australian short-range endemic mite harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones: Pettalidae: Karripurcellia). Evolutionary Systematics 2:81-87.
Tippelt, L., Schwentner, M. (2018): Taxonomic assessment of Australian Eocyzicus species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Zootaxa 4410(3):401-452.
Bober, S., Brix, S., Riehl, T., Schwentner, M., Brandt, A. (2018): Does the Mid-Atlantic Ridge affect the distribution of benthic crustaceans across the Atlantic Ocean? Deep-Sea Research Part II 148:91-104.
Richter, S., Schwentner, M., Wirkner, SC. S., Ahyong, S. T. (2018): Phylogeny and Diversity of Tasmanian Mountain Shrimps (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Anaspidacea Anaspidesidae) – independent immigration from surface to subterranean habitats. Zoologica Scripta 47:84-105.
Augustin, R., Schröder, K., Murillo Rincón, A. P., Herbst, E.-M., Fraune, S., Anton-Erxleben, F., Schwentner, M., Grötzinger, J., Wassenaar, T. M., Bosch, T. C. G. (2017): A secreted antibacterial neuropeptide shapes the microbiome of Hydra. Nature Communications 8: 698.
Ahyong, S., Schwentner, M., Richter, S. (2017): The Tasmanian Lake Shrimps, Paranaspides Smith 1908 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Anaspididae). Records of the Australian Museum 69:259-275.
Timms, B.V., Schwentner, M. (2017): A revision of the clam shrimp Australimnadia Timms and Schwentner, 2012 (Crustacea: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae) with two new species from Western Australia. Zootaxa 4291:081-098.Schwentner, M., Combosch, D.J., Pakes Nelson, J., Giribet, G. (2017): A Phylogenomic Solution to the Origin of Insects by Resolving Crustacean-Hexapod Relationships. Current Biology 27:1818-1824.
Meusel, F., Schwentner, M. (2017): Molecular and morphological delimitation of Australian Triops species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Notostraca)—large diversity and little morphological differentiation. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 17:137-156.
Rogers, D.C., Schwentner, M., Olesen, J., Richter, S. (2015): Evolution, classification, and global diversity of large Branchiopoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology 35(3): 297-300.Schwentner,
M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2015): Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in Australia’s arid zone: Unparalleled
diversity at regional scales and within water bodies. Journal of Crustacean Biology 35(3): 366-378.
Schwentner,
M., Richter, S. (2015): Stochastic effects associated with resting egg banks lead to genetically differentiated active
populations in large branchiopods from temporary water bodies. Hydrobiologia 760: 239-253.
Schwentner,
M., Bosch, T.C.G. (2015): Revisiting the age, evolutionary history and species level diversity of the genus Hydra
(Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 91: 41-55.
Kaji, T., Fritsch, M., Schwentner, M., Olesen, J., Richter, S. (2014): Male claspers in clam shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: A case study on homology versus analogy. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution) 322: 269-280.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2014): Evolutionary systematics of the Australian Eocyzicus fauna (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) reveals hidden diversity and phylogeographic structure. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 52: 15-31.
Schwentner, M., Clavier S., Fritsch M., Olesen J., Padhye S., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2013): Cyclestheria hislopi (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): a group of morphologically cryptic species with origins in the Cretaceous. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 80-810.
Timms, B.V., Schwentner, M. (2012): A new genus and species of large limnadiid clam shrimp from Australia (Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 32(6): 981-990.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2012): Flying with the birds? Recent large-area dispersal of four Australian Limnadopsis species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Ecology and Evolution 2(7):1605–1626.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2012): Description of four new species of Limnadopsis from Australia (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Zootaxa 3315:42-64.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Richter, S. (2011): An integrative approach to species delineation incorporating different species concepts: a case study of Limnadopsis (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104: 575-599.
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Bastrop, R., Richter, S. (2009): Phylogeny of Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) based on three molecular markers – An Australian origin for Limnadopsis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53: 716-725.
Published Abstracts
Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V., Bastrop, R., Richter, S. (2008): Combining morphological and molecular characters to distinguish spinicaudatan species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) with special focus on the male claspers. Journal of Morphology 269 (12): 1485-1486
I am interested in various aspects of crustacean evolution. This includes phylogenetics, systematics, phylogeography, population genetics and integrative taxonomy. In my studies, I employ and combine various molecular genetic techniques (e.g., DNA barcoding, ddRADseq, transcriptomics) with morphological data. I work manly with freshwater Branchiopoda, but also deep-sea Peracarida (especially Amphipoda) as well as other organisms.
2018
mapping invasive Crustacea in Hamburg
2015
field trip to Belize
2011 field trip in Australia
including stays at the Australian Museum in Sydney
2010
field trip in Australia including stays at the Australian Museum in Sydney
2009 field trip in Australia including stays at the Australian Museum in Sydney
Editorial Work
since 2019
Associate Editor of Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny
2015
Guest Editor of Journal of Crustacean Biology, special issue on Large Branchiopoda (issue 35:3)
since 2013
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
Memberships
Society of Systematic Biologists
Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG)
International Society for Invertebrate
Morphology
Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Zoologischen Sammlung Rostock e.V. (Friends and Patrons of the Zoological
Collection Rostock)
Teaching
2017- 2019 Organisationsformen des
Tierreichs (zoological lab course), a weekly zoological undergraduate lab course, Universität Hamburg
2017 - 2018
Systematik und Biodiversität der Crustacea (Systematics and biodiversity of Crustacea), lecture, Universität Hamburg
2017 - 2018 Aktuelle Themen aquatischer Biodiversitätsforschung (Current topics in marine biodiversity
studies), seminar, Universität Hamburg
2017 - 2018 Taxonomische Übungen an Fischen und benthischen
Wirbellosen (Taxonomic excercises on fish and crustacean), 2-week lab course, Universität Hamburg
2016
Life Sciences 1b (as a teaching assistant), a weekly undergraduate lab and discussion course on genetics, genomic and evolution
at Harvard University
2011 - 2013 Molekulare Systematik (Molecular Systematics), yearly two week
lab course, Universität Rostock
2011 - 2013 Lectures on Phylogeography and DNA Barcoding as part
of the lecture Grundlagen der Diversitätsforschung und evolutionären Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität Rostock
2005
Zoologisches Grundpraktikum (Zoological lab course), Universität Rostock
