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Dr. Karen Meusemann

CV
  • Scientific Referee & Research Coordination

Raiffeisenhaus
Adenauerallee 127
53113 Bonn

Phone: +49 228 9122 307
E-Mail: k.meusemann@leibniz-lib.de

Profile

Areas of responsibility

 

 

I have been a research officer at the LIB since the beginning of April 2021. My areas of responsibility include the internal exchange within the LIB between the researchers at the various locations in Bonn and between Bonn and Hamburg, organisation, support for projects, input for the Director General and the Directorate, committee work & reporting, support for the Graduate School, establishment and support of our mentoring programme, etc. and the representation of the LIB in various (Leibniz) research networks.

I also support the OSIRIS consortium (Open Collection, Information and Research Infrastructure: Collecting for our Future) as coordinator and am involved in its content

In addition, I am actively involved in various projects in the LIB (1KITE, Evolution of rice fishes, Molecular methods, Evolution of Dexiarchia, Type genomics in museum collections etc.).

Research interests

 

Project and science management and project coordination and organisation in the field of biodiversity research, science communication, science-policy interactions, molecular evolution, phylogenomics, hexapods, speciation, hybridisation, systematics & taxonomy, method development

Scientific focus

My scientific focus is on the phylogenomics and transcriptomics of various insect groups ("basal hexapods", Neuropterida, Mecoptera, Antliophora, Diptera). I am particularly interested in the establishment of new methods and critical evaluation of data sets.

After my diploma thesis (karyology in blues) I was a PhD student in the SPP Deep Metazoan Phylogeny, zmb (Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research, supervision: Prof. Dr. B. Misof) in the field of molecular phylogenomics of "basal" hexapods and myriapods from 2005 - 2012. I am co-founder and co-coordinator of the international 1KITE project focussing on insect phylogenomics and method development. From 2013 - 2016 my research focussed on the phylogenomics of Diptera & Antliophora (flies, fleas, scorpionflies) during my stay at the Austr. Nat. Insect Coll ANIC (CSIRO, Canberra) - besides various 1KITE projects. Back in Germany from 2016 - 2021 I was Scientific Coordinator of the DFG Research Unit FOR2281 (Sociality and the reversal of the fecundity-longevity trade-off) in the AG J. Korb (University of Freiburg).

Memberships

  • German Zoological Society (DZG)

  • Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS)

  • OSIRIS Consortium

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Projects

Publications

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    2026

  • 2026/04

    Lim, W., Bang, W.J., Choi, J., Jung, S., Kim, S., Bayless, K.M., McKenna, D., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Yeates, D.K., Trautwein, M., Wiegmann, B.M., Shin, S.

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    Phylogenomics illuminates the complex evolutionary history of Bibionomorpha (Diptera)

    Systematic Entomology, 2, 51

    • 2025

  • 2025/05

    Letsch, H., Greve, C., Hundsdoerfer, A.K., Irisarri, I., Moore, J.M., Espeland, M., Wanke, S., Arifin, U., Blom, M.P.K., Corrales, C., Donath, A., Fritz, U., Köhler, G., Kück, P., Lemer, S., Mengual, X., Salas, N.M., Meusemann, K., Palandačić, A., Printzen, C., Sigwart, J.D., Silva-Brandão, K.L., Simões, M., Stange, M., Suh, A., Szucsich, N., Tilic, E., Töpfer, T., Böhne, A., Janke, A., Pauls, S.

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    Type genomics: a framework for integrating genomic data into biodiversity and taxonomic research

    Systematic Biology, 6, 74

  • 2025/03

    Kück, P., Wilkinson, M., Romahn, J., Seidel, N., Meusemann, K., Wägele, J.

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    Unraveling myriapod evolution: sealion, a novel quartet-based approach for evaluating phylogenetic uncertainty

    NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 1, 7

  • 2025/02

    Huang, Y., Escalona, H.E., Sun, Y., Zhang, P., Du, X., Gong, S., Tang, X., Liang, Y., Yang, D., Chen, P., Yang, H., Chen, M., Hüttel, B., Hlinka, O., Wang, X., Meusemann, K., Ślipiński, A., Zwick, A., Waterhouse, R.M., Misof, B., Niehuis, O., Li, H., Pang, H.

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    Molecular evolution of dietary shifts in ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): from fungivory to carnivory and herbivory

    BMC Biology, 1, 23

    • 2024

  • 2024/03

    Meusemann, K., Scherber, C., Rduch, V., Peters, R.

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    Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024 (Version 1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. 

    • 2022

  • 2022/07

    Kück, P., Romahn, J., Meusemann, K.

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    Pitfalls of the site-concordance factor (sCF) as measure of phylogenetic branch support

    NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 3, 4

    • 2020

  • 2020/10

    Vasilikopoulos, A., Misof, B., Meusemann, K., Lieberz, D., Flouri, T., Beutel, R.G., Niehuis, O., Wappler, T., Rust, J., Peters, R.S., Donath, A., Podsiadlowski, L., Mayer, C., Bartel, D., Böhm, A., Liu, S., Kapli, P., Greve, C., Jepson, J.E., Liu, X., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U.

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    Correction to: An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)

    BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 20

    • 2015

  • 2015/07

    Kjer, K.M., Ware, J.L., Rust, J., Wappler, T., Lanfear, R., Jermiin, L.S., Zhou, X., Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U., Beutel, R.G., Blanke, A., Donath, A., Flouri, T., Frandsen, P.B., Kapli, P., Kawahara, A.Y., Letsch, H., Mayer, C., McKenna, D.D., Meusemann, K., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Wiegmann, B.M., Yeates, D.K., von Reumont, B.M., Stamatakis, A., Misof, B.

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    Response to Comment on “Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution”

    Science, 6247, 349

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