Sabrina A. Schmidt

Doctoral student, third-party funds

Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology

Address

Universität Hamburg

Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

Department biology

Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology

Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology

Ohnhorststr. 18

22609 Hamburg

Office

Carl von Linné Haus

Room: 3.507

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42816- 711

Email: sabrina.schmidt"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Key aspects of activity

Morphological studies on representatives of Aizoaceae (ice plant family)
Molecular phylogeny of selected genera of the Aizoaceae
Biogeography of various genera of the Aizoaceae in South Africa
Ecology of quartz fields in South Africa with a focus on the Little Karoo and the Overberg area

Publications

2014
Rohwer, J.G. (2014). Lauraceae (Ocotea con Sabrina A. Schmidt). In: Greuter W., Rankin Rodríguez R. (Eds.) Flora de la República de Cuba 19(2), 1-86. Koeltz, Königstein.

2009
Rohwer, J. G., Li, J., Rudolph, B., Schmidt, S. A., van der Werff, H., & Li, H. W. (2009). Is Persea (Lauraceae) monophyletic? Evidence from nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences. Taxon, 58(4), 1153-1167.

2007
Thiede, J., Schmidt, S. A., & Rudolph, B. (2007). Phylogenetic implication of the chloroplast rpoC1 intron loss in the Aizoaceae (Caryophyllales). Biochemical systematics and ecology, 35(6), 372-380.

CV

since 7/2016	PhD-Student in the working group Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology with the Title: „Comparative phylogenetic, biogeographic and ecological studies of the genera Gibbaeum N.E. Br. and Glottiphyllum N.E. Br. (Aizoaceae) in South Africa.”
11/2007 – 6/2015	Scientific Assistant at the Herbarium Hamburgense in the GPI-Project (Global Plant Initiative) for the collection of Plant types in a database (www.herbariumhamburgense.de)
2/2006 – 6/2006	Molecular internship in the working group Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology with the Title: „Molecular preliminary studies on the barcoding of Aizoaceae and Lauraceae.”
11/2004 – 4/2005	Molecular internship in the working group Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology with the Title: „Population genetic analyses of the genus Trachycarpus with different molecular marker.”
2003	Diploma thesis: „Ocotea Aubl. (Lauraceae) on Cuba.” Taxonomic revision of the Cuban Ocotea-species for the „Neue Flora de Cuba“- Project under supervision of Prof. Dr. J. G. Rohwer
10/1995 – 4/2004	Study of Biology at the University of Osnabrück (basic study) and at the University of Hamburg (main study)