6th June 2016: Systematics Research Fund (SRF) Results of 2015/16 round
Published on 6th June 2016
The SRF received a total of 149 eligible applications for the 2015/16 round. Thirty one of the applications were funded at a total cost of £31,910.
List of successful applicants for the 2015/16 SRF round
Name (Country) | Project title |
Camilla Alves Souto (USA) | Phylogeny and biogeography of the echinolampadid echinoids (Echinodermata) |
Rani Asmarayani (USA) | Revision of Piper section Muldera (Piperaceae) |
Charles Baillie (UK) | Parallel adaptive radiations of cymothoid Isopods and their fish hosts |
Marzia Breda (Italy) | Morphological distinction of the giant deer Megaloceros savini from Vallparadís Section (Spain) |
Thom Dallimore (UK) | Using molecular phylogeography to determine systematic relationships among cryptic collembola species |
Kyle Dexter (UK) | An exceptional case of diversification in desert environments, Petalidium in the Namib |
Serena Dool (Germany) | Systematics of the Vespertilionini tribe of bats – implications for evolution of migration |
Gabriel Ferreira (Brazil) | On the homology of the dermal scales of the turtle skull |
Javier Francisco-Ortega (USA) | Systematics of the Caribbean island endemic genus Bonania (Euphorbiaceae) |
Annelise Frazão (Brazil) | Using Neotropical Trumpet Flowers to unveil mechanisms behind biogeographic and morphological evolution |
Melinda Greenfield (Australia) | Interactions between ants, fungi and the ant-plant Myrmecodia beccarii |
Gustavo Heiden (Brazil) | Taxonomy of Baccharis (Asteraceae): revision of Coridifolia, Heterothalamus and Oblongifolia clades |
Daniel Huston (Australia) | Taxonomic confusion and cryptic speciation among Great Barrier Reef gorgocephalid trematodes |
Sang Il Kim (USA) | Phylogeny of Prioninae may explain an “inordinate apathy” for old beetle lineages |
Paschalia Kapli (Germany) | Evolutionary history of the desert lizard Mesalina watsonana in the Iranian Plateau |
Jenö Kontschán (Cuba) | Biodiversity studies on the South-East Asian Uropdina (Acari) |
Christoph Liedtke (Spain) | Tree Hole Royalty– Systematics and Life History of East African Dwarf Toads |
Farideh Moharrek (Iran) | Evolutionary history of the Plumbaginaceae and its systematic implications |
Matteo Montagna (Italy) | Taxonomic description of phosphatized insect fossils from a Middle Triassic site |
Geoff Oxford (UK) | Hybridisation and the enigmatic taxonomy of the Tegenaria atrica group (Araneae: Agelenidae). |
Sujal Phadke (USA) | Resolving phylogeny of Allomyces to understand evolution of anisogamy in chytrid fungi |
Cristina Roquet (France) | Evolution of orophytic plants:Saxifraga Sect. Saxifraga(Saxifragaceae) as a model system |
Maria Paula Rozo Gomez (Brazil) | Comparative phylogeography of aquatic insects to investigate the evolutionary history of the Amazon Basin biota |
Bernardo Santos (USA) | Cryptine wasps from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: phylogeny and systematic revision |
Orlando Schwery (USA) | Unveiling the factors behind diversification and biogeography of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae) |
Nina Serén (USA) | The role of adaptation in Lesser Egyptian jerboa speciation |
Omar Torres-Carvajal (Ecuador) | Evolutionary history of Neotropical false chameleons |
Andrea Waeschenbach (UK) | Molecular systematics of Great Barrier Reef bryozoans |
Renate Wesselingh (Belgium) | Flower power: using 3D geometric morphometrics of flowers in Rhinanthus systematics |
Steven Worthington (USA) | Endocranial insights into Chimpanzee Subspecies Taxonomy |
Eugenia Zarza (USA) | Phylogenomics of the sub-family Iguaninae |