Division of Invertebrates
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
E-mail: ikappner@fieldmuseum.org
Phone: (312) 665-7796
Fax: (312) 665-7754
http://www.fmnh.org
Phylogenetic systematics, functional morphology, phylogeography and morphometrics of the bivalve family Veneridae, especially of the subfamilies Venerinae and Chioninae.
Ecology and behavior of Vermetidae.
Ph.D. Candidate, Program in Ecology & Evolution
University of Illinois at Chicago
Fall 2000 to present
Phylogenetic, biogeographic and monographic studies of the bivalve subfamily Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815
M.Sc. (Diplom), Biology, University of Bremen, Germany, 1999
Master thesis: Spatial distribution, population structure and feeding behavior of the worm-snail Dendropoma maxima (Gastropoda, Vermetidae) in the Gulf of Aqaba; Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany.
Mikkelsen P.M., R. Bieler, I. Kappner, T.A. Rawlings. in press. Phylogeny of Veneroidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta) based on morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Bieler, R., I. Kappner, P.M. Mikkelsen 2004. Periglypta listeri (Gray, 1838) in the western Atlantic: taxonomy, anatomy, life habits, and distribution (Bivalvia: Veneridae). Malacologia 46(2): 427-459.
Kappner, I., R. Bieler 2004. Evidence for convergence of the bivalve subfamilies Venerinae and Chioninae (Bivalvia: Veneridae). PEET V - Spatial and Temporal Issues in Taxonomy, Fifth Biennial Conference, September 20-23 2004.
Bieler, R., P.M. Mikkelsen, T.A. Rawlings, L.R.L. Simone, I. Kappner, I. Temkin, J. Wilk 2004. Taxonomy on the Half Shell: a PEET Project INvestigating Marine Bivalves. PEET V - Spatial and Temporal Issues in Taxonomy, Fifth Biennial Conference, September 20-23 2004.
Kappner I. 2004. Phylogeny of the subfamily Venerinae (Bivalvia: Veneridae) as inferred from morphology and molecules. World Congress of Malacology, Perth, Western Australia, 11-16 July 2004.
Mikkelsen, P.M., R. Bieler, I. Kappner, T. A. Rawlings 2004. Toward a Phylogeny of Veneroidea. World Congress of Malacology, Perth, Western Australia, 11-16 July 2004.
Kappner I. and R. Bieler 2004. Phylogeny of the nominal subfamily Venerinae (Bivalvia: Veneridae) as inferred from morphology and molecules. SICB (Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology) 2004 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA January 5-9. Abstract
Kappner I. 2003. Preliminary phylogeny of the Venerinae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). In D. Ó Foighil and T. Lee, eds., Abstracts, 69th Annual Meeting of The American Malacological Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 25-29, 2003. Abstract
Kappner I. 2002. Effects of various fixation techniques on tissue of a marine bivalve, Mercenaria mercenaria Linné, 1758, 68th Annual Meeting of The American Malacological Society, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, August 3 - 7, 2002.
Kappner I. 2001. Feeding behavior in worm snails (Vermetidae) - A successful adaptation to sessile life in coral reefs. In L. Salvini-Plawen et al., eds., Abstracts, World Congress of Malacology 2001, Vienna, Austria, p. 170.
Bieler, R., P. M. Mikkelsen, L. Crowley & I. Kappner 2001. Taxonomy on the half-shell: a "PEET"project investigating marine bivalves. In L. Salvini-Plawen et al., eds., Abstracts, World Congress of Malacology 2001, Vienna, Austria, p. 31.
Kappner I., Al-Moghrabi S.M., Richter C. 2000 Mucus-net feeding by the vermetid gastropod Dendropoma maxima in coral reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 204: 309-313 (Abstract).
Kappner I., Al-Moghrabi S.M., Richter C. 1998 Mucus-net feeding - A successful strategy at the coral reef - water interface, 33rd EMBS (European Marine Biology Symposium), Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Kappner I. and R. Bieler. Venus clam phylogeny (Bivalvia: Venerinae) as inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes.
Kappner I. Evidence for convergence in the bivalve subfamilies Venerinae and Chioninae (Bivalvia: Veneridae)
2004 Canary Islands, Panama and Western Australia
2003 Cape Verde Islands and Senegal, West Africa
2000/2001/2002 · Florida Keys
1999 · Aqaba (Jordan) and Eilat, Caesarea, Mikhmoret (Israel)
1997 · Aqaba (Jordan) and Eilat (Israel)
1996 · Israel, Egypt and Jordan
1995 · Participation in marine biological excursions and boat cruises to the German island Helgoland, with the research vessel "Viktor Hensen" and the fishing trawler "Polaris" on the North Sea; to Banyuls sur Mer, France, with boat cruises on the Mediterranean Sea
2005 Teaching Assistant; Bios 325 "Vertebrate Embryology" at UIC
2004 Teaching Assistant; Bios 272 "Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy" at UIC and Field Museum of Natural History, Webmaster of the PEET Bivalves Webpage and Malacologia Webpage; Curating FMNH's Veneridae collection.
2003 Field Museum of Natural History, Webmaster of the PEET Bivalves Webpage and Malacologia Webpage; Managing FMNH's Veneridae collection, Venerid generic names Database and Venerid Bibliography.
2002 Teaching Assistant; Bios 272 "Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy" at UIC
2000 - 2002 Field Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrates, Development of the Venerid Generic Names Database and Bibliography; Webmaster of the PEET Bivalves Page and Malacologia Webpage; Assisting the fieldwork of the Molluscan Biodiversity Project (Dr. Bieler and Dr. Mikkelsen) in the Florida Keys.
1999 Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Assistance in the research work of the Red Sea Program II with fieldwork in Aqaba, Jordan
1998 - 1998 Geology lab Department of Geology, University of Bremen; working with ODP (Ocean Drilling Program) sediment samples
1996 - 1997 Geology/Sedimentology lab, Department of Geology, University of Bremen; foraminifera research for stratigraphical analyses
1993 - 1994 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI); spatial distribution of macrophyta in the Antarctic Sea.
1993 - 1995 Ichthyology Lab of the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
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