Dr. Torben Riehl

Author IDs and website

ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-7363-4421
Loop profile: 401634
Scopus Author ID: 36610642900
Website@Senckenberg

Scientific interests

My research is focused on the evolutionary, biogeographic and ecological origins of the deep-sea fauna. More specifically, the taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of deep-sea isopods have my primary attention. Moreover, I am interested in the distribution of habitat types and potential barriers for the deep sea benthos, targeting the effect of habitat heterogeneity on connectivity and evolution.

Education

• Since 2017 - Preparation for habilitation Faculty for Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
• 2014 - Dr. rer. nat., Zoological Museum (now CeNak), University of Hamburg, Germany, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt
• 2009 - Diplom (former German equivalent to Master of Science), Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg, Germany, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt

Current position and professional associations

• Since 2017 - Researcher (tenure track) for deep-sea biology and crustacean systematics, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Since 2018 - Guest fellow (lecturer), Faculty for Biological Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Since 2018 - Associated scientist, Invertebrates II, Center of Natural History Hamburg (CeNak)
• Since 2009 - Freelance biologist: ornithologist, taxonomist, university teacher and speaker

Previous positions

• 2014/2017 - Post-Doctoral fellow in Vema-TRANSIT and KuramBio II projects, Center for Natural History (CeNak), University of Hamburg, Germany
• 2014/2017 - Post-Doctoral fellow (external, voluntary), Marine Biology Department, Ghent University, Belgium
• 2014 - Researcher for deep-sea macrofauna taxonomy, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research, Senckenberg am Meer, Hamburg, Germany
• 2009/2014 - PhD candidate, Biocenter Grindel and Zoological museum, University of Hamburg, Germany
• 2009/2010 - Researcher for deep-sea macrofauna taxonomy, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research, Senckenberg am Meer, Hamburg, Germany

Teaching activities

• 2018 - Head lecturer — Organismal Diversity, Biological Science Department, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2018 - Head lecturer — Integrative Systematics and Taxonomy, Biological Science Department, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2015 - Assistant lecturer — EMBC spring school, Tjärnö research station, Gothenburg University, Sweden
• 2014/2015 - Head lecturer — Zoological excursion category I, University of Hamburg, Germany

Fellowships, grants, and rewards

• 2018 - Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers – Program Focus A|B Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. € 3600.00
• 2018 - Konzeptstudie der Behörde für Umwelt und Energie, Hamburg. € 530.00
• 2017 - Datz Foundation, workshop funding. € 8000.00
• 2012 - Travel scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. € 1600.00
• 2012 - Geddes Visiting Research fellowship Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. (AUD) $7992.00
• 2011 - Travel scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. € 1750.00
• 2011 - PhD fellowship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg, Germany. € 27600.00
• 2011 - GfBS conference grant. € 100.00
• 2011 - Travel scholarship by the University of Hamburg Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. € 1150.00
• 2010 - Glaxo-Smith-Kline Foundation travel grant University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. € 650.00
• 2009 - Stiftung University of Hamburg   travel grant. € 1650.00
• 2009 - CeDAMar   taxonomic exchange grant. € 2000.00
• 2009 - The Crustacean Society – student-poster award. (USD) $ 100.00
• 2009 - CeDAMar   taxonomic exchange grant. € 1650.00
• 2007 - Stiftung University of Hamburg   travel grant.  € 910.00

Memberships of scientific societies

• Since 2017 - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
• Since 2013 - Deep-Sea Biology Society
• Since 2014 - The Willi-Hennig Society
• Since 2011 - The Crustacean Society
• Since 2011 - Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS)
• 2008/2017 - Working group Young Systematists of the GfBS

Publications as CeNak scientist and joint publications with scientific staff of the CeNak (peer-reviewed)

2018

• Riehl T, Lins L, Brandt, A. The effects of depth, distance, and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on genetic differentiation of abyssal and hadal isopods (Macrostylidae). Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 148, 74–90.
• Riehl T, Bober S, Voltski I, Malyutina MV, Brandt A. Caught in the act: An abyssal isopod collected while feeding on Komokiaceae. Marine Biodiversity 48(1), 157–158.
• Bober S, Riehl T, Brandt A. An organ of equilibrium in deep-sea isopods revealed. The statocyst of Macrostylidae (Crustacea, Peracarida, Janiroidea). Zoomorphology 137, 71–82.
• Bober S, Brix S, Riehl T, Schwentner M, Brandt A. Does the Mid-Atlantic Ridge affect the distribution of benthic crustaceans across the Atlantic Ocean? Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 148, 91–104.
• Bober S, Riehl T, Henne S, Brandt A. New Macrostylidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) from the abyssal Northwest Pacific Basin described by means of integrative taxonomy with a reference to geographic barriers in the abyssal deep sea. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182, 549–603.
• Brandt A, Frutos, I., Bober S, Brix S, Brenke N, Guggolz T, Heitland N, Malyutina MV, Minzlaff U, Riehl T, Schwabe E, Zinkann A-C & Linse K. Composition of abyssal macrofauna along the Vema Fracture Zone and the hadal Puerto Rico Trench, northern tropical Atlantic. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 148, 35–44.
• Kniesz K, Brandt A, Riehl T. Peritrich ciliate epibionts on the new hadal isopod species Macrostylis marionae from the Puerto Rico Trench as an indicator for sex-specific behaviour. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 148, 105–129.

2017

• De Smet B, Pape E, Riehl T, et al. The community structure of deep-sea macrofauna associated with polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ). Frontiers in Marine Science 4(103), 1-14.
• Lins L, Leliaert F, Riehl T, Ramalho S, Cordova E, Esteves AM, Vanreusel A. Species variability and connectivity in the deep sea: evaluating effects of spatial heterogeneity and hydrodynamics. Biogeosciences 14, 651-669.

2016

• Huettmann F, Riehl T & Meißner K. Paradise lost already? A naturalist interpretation of the pelagic avian and marine mammal detection database of the IceAGE cruise off Iceland and Faroe Islands in fall 2011, Environment, Systems and Decisions 36, 45-61.

2015

• Ruch J, Riehl T, May-Collado LJ & Agnarsson I. Multiple origins of subsociality in crab spiders (Thomisidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82, Part A, 330–340.
• Brandt A, Elsner NO, Brenke N, Golovan OA, Lavrenteva AV, Malyutina MV, Riehl T. Abyssal Macrofauna of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench area collected by means of a camera-epibenthic sledge (Northwest Pacific), Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 111, 175–187.
• Elsner NO, Malyutina MV, Golovan OA, Brenke N, Riehl T & Brandt A. Deep down: Isopod biodiversity of the Kuril-Kamchatka abyssal area including a comparison with previous expeditions of the RV Vityaz, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 111, 210–219.
• Brix S, Leese F, Riehl T & Kihara TC. A new genus and new species of Desmosomatidae Sars, 1897 (Isopoda) from the eastern South Atlantic abyss described by means of integrative taxonomy. Marine Biodiversity 45(1), 7-61.

2014

• Riehl T, Wilson GDF & Malyutina MV. Urstylidae – A new family of deep-sea isopods and its phylogenetic implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnéan Society 170, 245–296.
• Riehl T, Brenke N, Brix S, Driskell A, Kaiser S & Brandt A. Field and laboratory methods for DNA barcoding and molecular-systematic studies on deep-sea isopod crustaceans. Polish Polar Research 35(2), 205–226.
• Ruch J, Riehl T & Michalik P. Re-description of Xysticus bimaculatus L. Koch, 1867 (Araneae, Thomisidae) and characterization of its subsocial lifestyle. ZooKeys 427, 1–19.
• Bober S & Riehl T. Adding depth to line-artwork by digital stippling – A step-by-step guide to the method. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 14(3), 327–337.

2013

• Riehl T & Brandt A. Southern-Ocean Macrostylidae reviewed with a key to the species and new descriptions from Maud Rise. Zootaxa 3692, 160-203.
• Havermans C, Sonet G, d’ Udekem d’Acoz C, Nagy ST, Martin P, Brix S, Riehl T, Agrawal S, Held C. Genetic and morphological divergences in the cosmopolitan deep-sea amphipod Eurythenes gryllus reveal a diverse abyss and a bipolar species. PLoS ONE 8:e74218.
• Kaiser S, Brandão SN, Brix S, Barnes DKA, Bowden DA, Ingels J, Leese F, Schiaparelli S, Arango CP, Badhe R, Bax N, Blazewicz-Paszkowycz M, Brandt A, Brenke N, Catarino AI, David B, de Ridder C, Dubois P, Ellingsen KE, Glover AG, Griffiths HJ, Gutt J, Halanych KM, Havermans C, Held C, Janussen D, Lörz AN, Pearce DA, Pierrat, Riehl T, et al. Patterns, processes and vulnerability of Southern Ocean benthos: a decadal leap in knowledge and understanding. Marine Biology 160(9), 2295-2317.
• Brandt A, Elsner N, Brenke N, Golovan O, Malyutina MV, Riehl T, et al. Epifauna of the Sea of Japan collected via a new epibenthic sledge equipped with camera and environmental sensor systems. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 86-87, 43-55.

2008–2012

• Riehl T & Kaiser S. Conquered from the deep sea? A new deep-sea isopod species from the Antarctic shelf shows pattern of recent colonization. PLoS ONE 7, e49354.
• Riehl T, Wilson GDF, & Hessler RR. New Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916 (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Gay Head-Bermuda transect with special consideration of sexual dimorphism. Zootaxa 3277, 1–26.
• Brandt A, Bathmann U, Brix S, Cisewski B, Flores H, Göcke C, Janussen D, Krägefsky S, Kruse S, Leach H, Linse K, Pakhomov E, Peeken I, Riehl T, et al. Maud Rise – a snapshot through the water column. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 58, 1962–1982.
• Brix S, Riehl T, & Leese F. First genetic data for Haploniscus rostratus and Haploniscus unicornis from neighbouring deep-sea basins in the South Atlantic. Zootaxa 2838, 79–84.
• Riehl T, & Brandt A (2010) Descriptions of two new species in the genus Macrostylis Sars, 1864 (Isopoda, Asellota, Macrostylidae) from the Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean), with a synonymisation of the genus Desmostylis Brandt, 1992 with Macrostylis. ZooKeys 57, 9–49.
• Riehl T, Haas A, & Das I (2008) Hylarana raniceps predation. Herpetological Review 39, 77.

Theses

• Riehl T (2014) A phylogenetic approach to the classification of macrostylid isopods and faunal linkages between the deep sea and shallow-water environments. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt and Prof. Dr. Pedro Martínez Arpizu, 349 pp. Available from: http://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2014/6839/.
• Riehl T, (2009) Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916 (Crustacea, Malacostraca): State of the Art, New Results and Perspectives. Diploma Thesis (German equivalent to a Master thesis), University of Hamburg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt and Dr. Saskia Brix, 142 pp.

Reviewed book chapters

• Riehl T, Brandão S N & Brandt A. Conquering the ocean depths over three geological eras. In press: Thiel, M., Poore, G.C.B. (Eds.), The Natural History of Crustacea - Evolution and Biogeography, Vol. 8. Oxford University Press.
• McCallum A & Riehl T. Intertidal to Abyss: Crustaceans and Depth. In press: Thiel, M., Poore, G.C.B. (Eds.), The Natural History of Crustacea - Evolution and Biogeography, Vol. 8. Oxford University Press.

Book chapters, magazine articles, preprints and reports

2018

• Riehl T, Augustin N, Bober S, Brix S, Devey CW, Heitland N, Lins L, Wölfl A-C, Brandt A. The evolutionary origins of abyssal biodiversity — new ideas from biogeography and habitat mapping. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26845v1.

2016

• Brandt A, Riehl T & shipboard scientific party of the SO250 expedition with RV Sonne (2016) KuramBio II (SO250) (Kuril Kamchatka Biodiversity Studies). Deep-Sea Life (8), 5–6.
• Appeltans W, Provoost P, Reed G, Vandepitte L, Baker M, Higgs ND, O’Hara TD, Althaus F, Amon DJ, Bilan M, BLazewicz-Paszkowycz M, Borremans C, Bourque J, Brager S, Chapman A, Cobley A, Cunha MR, Dahlgren TG, Davies A, De Leo F, Dornback M, Horton T, Ingels J, Martini S, Mcveigh D, Olson C, Polanco A, Ramos A, Rastoin E, Ravara A, Riehl T, Roterman C & Mohamed Moctar SM. (2016) The revival of the deep sea in OBIS. Deep-Sea Life (8), 24–26.
• Brandt A & shipboard scientific party of the SO250 expedition with RV Sonne (2016) Kuril Kamchatka Biodiversity Studies II – RV Sonne SO250, Tomakomai-Yokohama (Japan), 16.08.–26.09.2016.
• 2015
• Riehl T. Wollhandkrabben-Tour. In: Natur in Hamburg: 30 thematische Touren, 1st edn. Junius-Verlag, Hamburg, Germany, pp 244–252. ISBN 978-3-88506-058-1 (Nature guide in German)
• Devey CW and shipboard scientific party. RV SONNE Fahrtbericht / Cruise Report SO237 Vema-TRANSIT: Bathymetry of the Vema-Fracture Zone and Puerto Rico TRench and Abyssal AtlaNtic BiodiverSITy Study, Las Palmas (Spain) – Santo Domingo (Dom. Rep.) 14.12.14–26.01.15. Geomar Report, 130, ISSN 2193-8113 (English report with German summary).
• 2014
• Riehl T, Brandt A. Vema-TRANSIT – The first expedition of the new RV SONNE. Deep-Sea Life 17–19.
• Koch A & Riehl T. Die Jungen Systematiker (JuSys) – Förderung der taxonomisch-systematischen Grundlagenforschung. In: Feit, U. & Korn, H. (Eds) Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XIII. Interdisziplinärer Forschungsaustausch im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt. pp 191–196. Bonn - Bad Godesberg: Bundesamt für Naturschutz. http://www.bfn.de/fileadmin/MDB/documents/service/Skript_370.pdf  (In German)

2013

• Riehl T. Getting into deep water. Explore 35:30 – 31. ISSN 1833-752X
• Riehl T, Schneider M, Meißner K (2013) Birds. In: Martinez Arbizu P, Brix S, Kaiser S, et al. (Eds) Cruise No. 79, Leg 1. Leitstelle Deutsche Forschungsschiffe Institut für Meereskunde der Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, p 66. R/V Meteor Cruise Reports.
• Kaiser S, Brandt A, Brix S, Riehl T, et al. (2013) Macrofauna represented in sledge-samples. In: Martinez Arbizu P, Brix S, Kaiser S, et al. (Eds) Cruise No. 79, Leg 1. Leitstelle Deutsche Forschungsschiffe Institut für Meereskunde der Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, pp 36–47. R/V Meteor Cruise Reports.

2012

• Riehl T. Macrostylidae of the Kurile-Kamchatka-Trench area. In: Brandt A & Malyutina MV (Eds) The German-Russian deep-sea expedition KuramBio (Kurile Kamchatka Biodiversity Study) to the Kurile Kamchatka Trench and abyssal plain on board of the R/V Sonne, 223rd Expedition. pp 51 – 56. BGR. R/V Sonne Cruise Reports.
• Riehl T, Brandt A, Malyutina MV, & Elsner N. Molecular genetic studies on deep-sea isopods. In: Brandt A & Malyutina MV (Eds) The German-Russian deep-sea expedition KuramBio (Kurile Kamchatka Biodiversity Study) to the Kurile Kamchatka Trench and abyssal plain on board of the R/V Sonne, 223rd Expedition. pp 57 – 61. BGR. R/V Sonne Cruise Reports.
• Brix S, Bauernfeind W, Brenke N, Blazewicz-Paszkowycz M, Borges V, Buldt K, Cannon J, Díaz Agras G, Fiege D, Fiorentino D, Haraldsdóttir S, Hoffmann S, Holst S, Huettmann F, Jeskulke K, Jennings R, Kocot K, Khodami S, Lucas Rodriguez Y, Martinez Arbizu P, Meißner K, Mikkelsen N, Miller M, Murray A, Neumann H, Ostman A, Riehl T, et al. IceAGE - Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology. Senatskommission für Ozeanographie der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft MARUM – Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften der Universität Bremen Leitstelle Deutsche Forschungsschiffe Institut für Meereskunde der University of Hamburg, Hamburg. R/V Meteor Cruise Reports.

2011

• Kaiser S, Riehl T, et al. Offener Brief der Jungen Systematiker (JuSys) zur Bundestagsdebatte "Schutz der biologischen Vielfalt - Die Taxonomie in der Biologie stärken. GfBS Newsletter, 25, 59 – 62. http://www.gfbs-home.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Newsletter/GfBS_Newsletter_25_2011.pdf (In German)

2010

• Brandt A, Elsner NO, Riehl T, et al. (2010) Investigations of the epifaunal macrofauna using the epibenthic sledge during the Sea of Japan Biodiversity Studies (SoJaBio) expedition. In: Malyutina MV & Brandt A (Eds) The Russian-German deep-sea expedition (SoJaBio) to the Sea of Japan onboard of the R/V Akademik Lavrentyev 51st Cruise August 5th – September 5th, 2010. A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia ; pp 33–44. Akademik M. A. Lavrentyev Cruise Reports.
• Brandt A, Elsner N, & Riehl T. Fields of interest and plans of the participants in the SoJaBio Expedition. In: Malyutina MV & Brandt A (Eds) The Russian-German deep-sea expedition (SoJaBio) to the Sea of Japan onboard of the R/V Akademik Lavrentyev 51st Cruise August 5th – September 5th, 2010. A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia ; p 14. Akademik M. A. Lavrentyev Cruise Reports.
• Riehl T. Taxonomy and systematics of selected deep-sea isopod groups. In: Malyutina MV & Brandt A (Eds) The Russian-German deep-sea expedition (SoJaBio) to the Sea of Japan onboard of the R/V Akademik Lavrentyev 51st Cruise August 5th – September 5th, 2010. p 26. Akademik M. A. Lavrentyev Cruise Reports.
• Brandt A, Kramer L, Riehl T, et al. Macrofauna - Biodiversity, ecology and zoogeography of peracarid crustaceans and Polychaeta. The expedition of the research vessel “Polarstern” to the Antarctic in 2007/2008 (ANT-XXIV/2) Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung = Reports on polar and marine research, Ulrich Bathmann pp. 110 – 118. Alfred-Wegener-Institut Für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven. R/V Polarstern Cruise Reports.

Proposal for environmental impact studies

• Bergmann L, Grabener S, Kubiak M, Riehl T & Schwentner M. (2018) Erfassung gebietsfremder Krebsarten (Crustacea, Decapoda) gemäß EU-Durchführungsverordnung Nr. 2016/1141 auf dem Gebiet der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Umwelt und Energie (BUE) (concept study; in German).

Selected photographic contributions

• Marine Biodiversity (Journal no. 12526; ISSN: 1867-1624): Main image and one smaller photo on cover page.
• Rex MA, Etter RJ (2010) Deep-sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; London, 354p: 3 photos of Antarctic macrofauna.
• Brandt A (2011) Probing the depth of the abyss. International Innovation 1, p. 111: 2 photographs of Antarctic macrofauna.
• Brandt A, Gutt J (2011) Biodiversity of a Unique Environment: The Southern Ocean Benthos Shaped and Threatened by Climate Change. In: Zachos FE, Habel JC (eds) Biodiversity hotspots: distribution and protection of conservation priority areas. Springer, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York, pp 305–328: 2 photographs.
• Boetius A, Brandt A, Freiwald A, et al. (2010) KDM Brochure: Marine Biodiversität - Vielfalt des Lebens. KDM Brochure DFG Senatskommission für Ozeanographie and German Marine Research Consortium, Bremerhaven, Berlin. http://www.deutsche-meeresforschung.de: Main image on front cover and two small images on back cover.

Plenary talks

• 14th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Aveiro, Potugal
  2015/09
  Riehl T & Brandt A. On the depth origins of the deep-sea benthos.
• 25th International Symposium on Polar Research, Hamburg, Germany
  2013/03
  Riehl T & Kaiser S. Measuring Southern Ocean benthic biodiversity: decadal progress and future challenges.

Invited oral presentations

• Riehl T. The origins of the deep-sea benthos (in German)
  Meeresmuseum Stralsund, Germany
  2015/10
• Riehl T. Dem blauen Planeten auf den Grund gegangen (in German)
  Vorweisungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung der Universität Rostock, Germany
  2015/10
• Riehl T. Dem blauen Planeten auf den Grund gegangen (in German)
  Book presentation, “Natur in Hamburg”, Center for Natural History, Hamburg, Germany
  2015/06
• Riehl T. Wollhandkrabben-Tour (in German)

Selected conference and workshop contributions

9th International Crustacean Congress, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (no pers. part.) 2018/05/23–25

• Poster: Bober S, Riehl T, Brandt A  (2018a) An Organ of Equilibrium in Deep-Sea Isopods Revealed: the Statocyst of Macrostylidae (Crustacea, Peracarida, Janiroidea).
• Poster: Bober S, Brix S, Riehl T, Schwentner M, Brandt A (2018b) Does the Mid-Atlantic Ridge affect the distribution of abyssal benthic crustaceans across the Atlantic Ocean?
• Talk: Bober S, Riehl T, Henne S, Brandt A (2018c) New Macrostylidae (Isopoda) from the northwest Pacific basin described by means of integrative Taxonomy with reference to geographical barriers in the abyss.

4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Montréal, Canada 2018/05/14

• Talk: Riehl T, Augustin N, Bober S, Brix S, Devey CW, Heitland N, Lins L, Wölfl A-C, Brandt A. Abyssal biodiversity – new data and ideas about the evolutionary origins.

19th Annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS), Vienna 2018/02/11–14

• Talk: Riehl T, Augustin N, Bober S, Brix S, Devey CW, Heitland N, Lins L, Wölfl A-C, Brandt A. Abyssal biodiversity – new data and ideas about the evolutionary origins.

18th Crustaceologen-Tagung, Berlin 2017/03/30–04/02

• Talk: Riehl T, Lins L, Brandt A. On diversification of deep-sea Macrostylidae (Isopoda)
• Poster: Heitland N, Riehl T, Brandt A. Eine monophyletische Gruppe sexualdimorpher Arten – Hinweise auf eine neue Gattung der Macrostylidae (Crustacea : Isopoda)
• Poster: Kniesz K, Riehl T, Brandt A. Peritrich epibionts indicate sex-specific behaviour in a hadal isopod species Macrostylis sp.

Statusseminar FS Sonne, Oldenburg 2017/02

• Talk: Brandt A, Devey C., Arndt H, Martínez Arbizu P, Riehl T, Bober S, Schmidt C, Schönle A, Heitland N. SO237 Vema-TRANSIT (Bathymetry of the Vema-Fracture Zone and Puerto Rico TRench and Abyssal AtlaNtic BiodiverSITy Study)
• Talk: Brandt A, Martínez Arbizu P, Malyutina M, Riehl T, Schmidt C, Heitland N. SO250 KuramBio II (Kuril Kamchatka Biodiversity Studies)
• Poster: Heitland N, Riehl T, Brandt A. Eine monophyletische Gruppe sexualdimorpher Arten – Hinweise auf eine neue Gattung der Macrostylidae (Crustacea : Isopoda)

17th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, Munich, Germany 2016/02

• Talk: Riehl T, Heitland N, Brandt A. The potential role of sexual selection for deep-sea diversity.
• Talk: Bober S, Riehl T, Brix S, Heitland N, Brandt A. Does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the distribution of benthic isopod crustaceans across the Atlantic Ocean?
• Poster: Bober S. & Riehl T. Adding depth to line-artwork by digital stippling – A step-by-step guide to the method.

14th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Aveiro, Portugal 2015/09

• Talk: Bober S, Riehl T, Brix S, Frutos I, Malyutina MV, Heitland N, Brandt A. Does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the distribution of benthic crustaceans across the Atlantic Ocean? A morphological and genetical approach on Macrostylidae (Crustacea, Isopoda).
• Poster: Bober S. & Riehl T. Adding depth to line-artwork by digital stippling – A step-by-step guide to the method.
• Poster: Brandt A, Bober S, Brix S, Frutos I, Guggolz T, Heitland N, Linse K, Malyutina MV, Minzlaff U, Riehl T, Schwabe E, Zinkann A-C. Macrofaunal composition of the Vema-TRANSIT expedition with the new RV Sonne – preliminary results.
• Poster: Frutos I, Malyutina MV, Brix S, Riehl T, Bober S, Heitland N, Brandt A. Abyssal Peracarida crustaceans collected during the SO-237 cruise from the Vema Fracture Zone: the importance of isopods – preliminary results.
• Status seminar R/V Sonne, Bremen, Germany 2015/02
• Poster: Riehl T & Brandt A. Die Phylogenie von macrostyliden Isopoden zeigt komplexe Besiedlungsmuster zwischen Tiefseebecken und Tiefenzonen (in German).

7. Graduiertenforum der Fachgruppe Morphologie 2014/10

• Talk: Riehl T, Bober, S & Brandt A. Phylogenie und allgemeine Biologie von Tiefseeisopoden – neue morphologische Daten (in German)

8th International Crustacean Congress (ICC-8), Frankfurt/Main, Germany. 2014/08

• Talk: Riehl T. Multiple Offshore-Onshore Colonizations by Deep-Sea Macrostylids (Asellota: Isopoda)?
• Talk: Martínez Arbizu P, Brix S, Malyutina MV, Schnurr S, Pordason S, Riehl T & Svavarsson J. Predictive modelling of marine Isopoda around Iceland.
• Poster: Bober S & Riehl T. Adding depth to line-artwork by digital stippling. A step-by-step guide to the method.
• XXXII Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Rostock, Germany 2013/08
• Talk: Riehl T. New insights to the evolution of deep-sea isopods through inclusion of rare and odd taxa.

BioSyst.EU 2013 Global Systematics! Vienna, Austria 2013/02

• Talk: Riehl T. Fitting in the phylogenetic cracks of deep-sea isopods.
• Poster: Riehl T & Brandt A. Impediment be resource: sexual dimorphisms in Macrostylidae (Crustacea: Isopoda).
• Poster: Havermans C, Sonet G, Nagy Z, Riehl T, et al. Evidences for several species within the cosmopolitan eurybathic deep-sea lysianassoid amphipod Eurythenes gryllus s.l.

25th International Symposium on Polar Research, Hamburg, Germany 2013/03

• Poster: Riehl T & Kaiser S. Evidence for recent colonization of the Amundsen-Sea shelf by the isopod crustacean Macrostylis roaldi.

15. Crustaceologentagung, University of Greifswald, Germany 2013/03

• Poster: Riehl T & Brandt A. Impediment be Resource – Sexual dimorphisms in Macrostylidae.
• Talk: Riehl T & Brandt A. Complex colonization patterns in deep-sea isopods indicate ancient lineages.

Australian Museum Seminar, Sydney, Australia 2013/01

• Talk: Riehl T. Filling the phylogenetic gaps in our knowledge of the deep-sea isopods.

13th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand 2012/12

• Poster: Riehl T & Brandt A. Impediment be Resource – Sexual dimorphisms in Macrostylidae.
• Talk: Riehl T. On the phylogeny of Macrostylidae (Isopoda) and their position amongst the Janiroidea.

Doktorandenforum Natur of the National Academic Foundation, Berlin, Germany 2012/11

• Talk: Riehl T. Towards a revision of the deep-sea isopod family Macrostylidae – Powerful applications of DNA sequence data.

15. Crustaceologentagung, University of Regensburg, Germany 2011/04

• Poster: Riehl T & Brandt A. A proposed classification of setae for Macrostylidae (Crustacea: Isopoda).
• Talk: Riehl T, Brix S & Leese F. Genetic evidence in taxonomy and biogeography of deep-sea isopods.

Biosystematics 2011, Berlin, Germany 2011/03

• Poster: Riehl T & Brandt A. A proposed classification of setae for Macrostylidae (Crustacea: Isopoda).
• Talk: Riehl T, Brix S & Leese F. A molecular-genetic approach to the inference of biodiversity in deep-sea Isopoda: The case of Haploniscus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Haploniscidae) in the South Atlantic.

Australian Museum Seminar, Sydney, Australia 2013/01

• Talk: Riehl T. Filling the phylogenetic gaps in our knowledge of the deep-sea isopods.

13th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand 2012/12

• Poster: Riehl T & Brandt A. Impediment be Resource – Sexual dimorphisms in Macrostylidae.
• Talk: Riehl T. On the phylogeny of Macrostylidae (Isopoda) and their position amongst the Janiroidea.

Doktorandenforum Natur of the National Academic Foundation, Berlin, Germany 2012/11

• Talk: Riehl T. Towards a revision of the deep-sea isopod family Macrostylidae – Powerful applications of DNA sequence data.