Sonja Bamberger

Ongoing Projects

• Exploring genomic methods for delimiting species in radiations of terrestrial snails

Scientific Career

• Since March 2018 – Research assistant and PhD student, Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) - Center of Natural History, Zoological Museum, Universität Hamburg
• 09/2014 – 03/2018 – Student assistant (10h/20h) within the project „Speciation in rock-dwelling land snails: Understanding the origin of diversity using Montenegrina as a model system". FWF-Project 26581-B25, Project Leader: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Elisabeth Haring, Central Research Laboratories, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria.

Academic Training and Degrees

• 10/2013 - 11/2017 – MSc Ecology and Ecosystems, University of Vienna, Austria
  Master thesis: „Testing gene flow between the two subspecies of the Austrian endemic land snail Trochulus oreinos (Pulmonata, Hygromiidae) using AFLP analysis".
  Supervisor: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Elisabeth Haring and Dr. Luise Kruckenhauser, Central Research Laboratories, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria.
• 09/2009 - 09/2013 – BSc Biology, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria

Publications

• Zallot, E., Fehér, Z., Bamberger, S., & Gittenberger, E. (2018). Cochlostoma revised: the subgenus Lovcenia Zallot et al., 2015 (Caenogastropoda, Cochlostomatidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 464:1–25.
• Fehér Z, Mason K, Szekeres M, et al. Range‐constrained co‐occurrence simulation reveals little niche partitioning among rock‐dwelling Montenegrina land snails (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae). Journal of Biogeography 2018;45:1444–1457.

Conference contributions

Talks

• Bamberger, S., Tribsch, A., Duda, M., Macek, O., Affenzeller, M., Haring, E., Sattmann, H., Kruckenhauser, L. (2016). Testing gene flow between the subspecies of Trochulus oreinos in their supposed contact zone. Oral presentation at the 10th annual NOBIS Meeting, 03.12.2016, Linz, Austria
• 2016 Oral presentation at the Seminar of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2016 Oral Presentation at the Workshop Alpine Land Snails Extended” in Johnsbach, Austria

Poster

• Bamberger, S., Tribsch, A., Duda, M., Macek, O., Affenzeller, M., Haring, E., Sattmann, H., Kruckenhauser, L. (2017). Species delimitation in an Austrian endemic land snail: The case of Trochulus oreinos (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). 20.10.2017. Annual ABOL Meeting, Vienna, Austria
• Bamberger, S., Tribsch, A., Duda, M., Macek, O., Affenzeller, M., Haring, E., Sattmann, H., Kruckenhauser, L. (2017). One species or two? Testing gene flow between the subspecies of Trochulus oreinos (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). Euromal Congress 2017, Krakow, Poland

Conference Contributions & Attendances

• 2018 Annual NOBIS meeting, Bozen, Italy
• 2018 Attendee at the Evolution2018, II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier, France
• 2018 Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the DMG, Cismar, Germany
• 2018 Attendee at the Annual ConsGen meeting, Vienna, Austria
• 2018 Attendee at the Annual Meeting of the GfBS, Vienna, Austria
• 2017 Attendee at the 6th Symposium for Research in Protected Areas, Salzburg, Austria
• 2017 Poster presentation at the Annual ABOL Meeting, Vienna, Austria
• 2017 Attendee at the International Symposium of Ecologists of Montenegro (ISEM7), Sutomore, Montenegro
• 2017 Poster presentation at the 8th Euromal Congress in Krakow, Poland
• 2017 Attendee at the 4th Austrian Neobiota Conference, Vienna, Austria
• 2016 Annual ABOL Meeting in Linz, Austria
• 2016 Oral presentation at the Annual NOBIS Meeting in Linz, Austria
• 2016 Attendee at the 5th MIND THE GAP Meeting, Vienna, Austria
• 2015 Annual ABOL Meeting in Linz, Austria
• 2015 Attendee at the 108th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Graz, Austria
• 2014 Annual NOBIS Meeting, Munich, Germany

Professional Memberships

• SSB - Society of Systematic Biologists
• NOBIS - Network of Biological Systematics
• DMG - German Malacological Society
• MoFA - Mollusken-Forschung Austria