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Dr. Eva Bärmann

Curator
Equal Opportunity Commissioner

Mammalogy

Tel: +49 228 9122-264

Fax: +49 228 9122-212

Mail: e.baermann [at] zfmk.de

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Field of work

Curator of large mammals

Research interests

Evolution and phylogeny of ruminants, especially bovids; collection-based research, morphometrics, molecular phylogenetics

Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde (DGS), Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Gesellschaft für Wildtier- und Jagdforschung

Further information

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva_Baermann

Projects

2019

Duiker skulls 3D

Duikers (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) are notoriously hard to classify, and several competing species definitions have been proposed. Using 3D geometric morphometrics we aim at investigating the morhological diversity of duiker skulls, evaluating the competing species definitions from a morphometric perspective.

Unit:

Mammalogy, Morphology Laboratory

Project lead:

Dr. Eva Bärmann

Automated detection of behaviour in Caucasian Tur

One female Caucasian Tur (Capra caucasica) was equipped with a collar that detected head movement using acceleration sensors in 3D. The animal was observed for up to two hours per day for several months and the noted behaviour was correlated with the sensor data in order to train an algorithm for automated behaviour detection. The analyses were done in R with the Random Forrest algorithm. The results show that over 20 different classes of behaviour (including head postures, rumination, different locomotion types) can be identified with very high accuracy (>95%).

Unit:

Mammalogy

Project lead:

Dr. Eva Bärmann

Cranial morphology of the Gerenuk

Among antelopes, the gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) is unique since it browses almost exclusively on tree-foliage at great heights by standing on its hind legs. In addition to this peculiar behavior, the gerenuk is exceptional in having a distinct adult cranial morphology including a very elongate and thick occiput. The development of the typical shape of the occipital bone is a postnatal process, but to date the underlying mechanism remains unclear. We use 3D geometric morphometric for investigating the changes in skull shape from juvenile t adult gerenuks.

Unit:

Mammalogy, Morphology Laboratory

Project lead:

Dr. Eva Bärmann

2018

Diversity of Iranian gazelles

Der Iran mit seiner durch Gebirgszüge und Wüsten geprägten Landschaft ist Heimat für vier Gazellenarten (Gazella subgutturosa, G. bennettii, G. arabica und G. marica). Das Projekt soll dazu beitragen, mithilfe molekularer Methoden die Taxonomie der Gattung Gazella besser zu verstehen und den Schutz dieser Tiere im Iran voranzubringen.

Unit:

Mammalogy

Project lead:

Dr. Eva Bärmann

Funding:

German Academic Exchange Service

2017

GGBC: Assessment, Monitoring and Management of Caucasian Biodiversity

A Georgian-German initiative to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus area

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Molecular Taxonomy, Biobank, Department Arthropoda, Coleoptera, Mammalogy, Lepidoptera, Herpetology, Administration, ZFMK International Graduate School, Biodiversity Informatics, Metabarcoding, Myriapoda, Arachnids, Staff Council, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Comparative Insect Genomics

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Publications

Published in

2019

Fadakar, D., Mirzakhah, M., Naderi, S., Bärmann, E. V., Naseri Nasari, M., Mohammadi Gorji, F., Reza Rezaei, H. (2019): The first record of mitochondrial haplotypes of Gazella marica (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) in wild populations in Iran. Mammalian Biology 95: 181-187

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2017

Wronski, T., Lerp, H., Bärmann, E.V., Butynski, T.M., Plath, M. (2017): Dark grey gazelles Gazella (Cetartiodactyla: Bovidae) in Arabia: Threatened species or domestic pet? Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 28 (1) online first

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2014

Bärmann, E.V. (2014): The Evolution of body size, horn shape and social behaviour in crown Antilopini - an ancestral character state analysis. In: International Conference on Ruminant Phylogenetics Munich 2013 - Proceedings, Zitteliana B 32, 1 – 12

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Bärmann, E.V., Gentry, A.W., Gentry, A. (2014): Antilope arabica Lichtenstein, 1827 (currently Gazella arabica; Mammalia, Ruminantia): proposed conservation of part of the lectotype designated by Neumann (1906). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 01/2014 71(2), 88-94.

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Bärmann, E.V., Schikora, T. (2014): The polyphyly of Neotragus – results from genetic and morphometric analyses. Mammalian Biology 79(4), 283-286.

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Lerp, H., Plath, M., Wronski, T., Bärmann, E.V., Malczyk, A., Resch, R.-R., Streit, B., Pfenninger, M. (2014): Utility of island populations in reintroduction programs –relationships between Arabian gazelles (Gazella arabica) from the Farasan Archipelago and endangered mainland populations. Molecular Ecology 23(8), 1910-1922.

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2013

Bärmann, E.V., Börner, S., Erpenbeck, D., Rössner, G.E., Hebel, C., Wörheide, G. (2013): The curious case of Gazella arabica. Mammalian Biology 78(3), 220-225.

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Bärmann, E.V., Rössner, G.E., Wörheide, G. (2013): A revised phylogeny of Antilopini (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) using combined mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 67, 484-493.

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Bärmann, E.V., Wronski, T., Lerp, H., Azanza, B., Erpenbeck, D., Rössner, G.E., Wörheide, G. (2013): A morphometric and genetic framework for the genus Gazella de Blainville, 1816 with special focus on Arabian and Levantine Mountain gazelles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169(3), 673-696.

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2012

Bärmann, E.V., Sánchez-Villagra, M.R. (2012): A phylogenetic study of late growth events in a mammalian evolutionary radiation - The cranial sutures of terrestrial cetartiodactyl mammals. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 19, 43-56.

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Thompson, R.S., Bärmann, E.V., Asher, R.J. (2012): The interpretation of hidden support in combined data phylogenetics. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 50(4), 251-263.

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2011

Bärmann, E.V., Rössner, G.E. (2011): Dental nomenclature in Ruminantia: Towards a standard terminological framework. Mammalian Biology 76(6), 762-768.

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2009

Bärmann, E.V., Fürst von Lieven, A., Sudhaus, W. (2009): Revision and phylogeny of Myolaimus (Secernentea, Nematoda) with the description of four new species. Journal of Nematode Morphology and Systematics 12(2), 145-168.

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2005

Fürst von Lieven, A., Bärmann, E.V., Sudhaus, W. (2005): How can nematodes mate without spicules? Function of the male gonoduct glands in the roundworm Myolaimus. Zoology 108, 211-216.

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Academic Education

2001-2007: Free University, Berlin, Germany: Biology (Zoology, Genetics, Botany, Paleontology). Diploma Thesis: ʻMorphology, taxonomy and reproductional biology of Myolaimus (Nematoda)’. Supervisor: Prof. Walter Sudhaus, FU Berlin

2008-2013: University of Cambridge, UK: PhD Zoology. Thesis: ʻTowards a Comprehensive
Phylogeny of Bovidae (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla, Mammalia)’. Supervisor: Dr. Robert Asher, Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Professional Career

2003-2007: Student Assistant at the Zoology Institute, Free University Berlin (tutor for practical courses ʻzoology’, ʻanimal identification’, ʻzoological systematics’, and ʻanatomie and evolution of vertebrates’

2007-2008: Student Assistant in the laboratory of Applied Genetics, Free University Berlin (Yeast-two-hybrid, cloning, detecton of Arabidopsis mutants)

2009-2012: Supervisor at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (for 'animal biology', 'vertebrate biology', and 'mammalian evolution and faunal history')

2013: Project on the identification of gazelles in the mammal collection of the Museum of
Natural History, Berlin

2013-2014: Teacher for biology and mathmatics at the Free School Anne-Sophie, Berlin

2014-2015: Postdoc, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany. Skulll anatomy of ruminants, µ-CT scanning of stained specimens for analysis of facial tissues, preliminary study.

since 2016: Curator of Mammals, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn

Professional roles and services to the scientific
community

2018 main organizer of the 92th annual meeting of the German Society for Mammalian
Biology (DGS)

since 2016 secretary of the German Society for Mammalian Biology

2013 co-organizer of the 1st International Conference on Ruminant Phylogenetics in Munich

Reviewer for:
-BMC Evolutionary Biology
-Journal of Morphology
-Journal of Zoology
-Mammalian Biology
-Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
-Papers in Palaeontology
-PeerJ
-Systematics and Biodiversity
-Vertebrate Zoology
-ZooKeys
-Zoology in the Middle East

Grants

DGS project funding 2018 for a study of gazelle diversity in Iran

Rufford Small Grant for D. Fadakar to work on conservation genetics of Iranian chinkara (Gazella bennettii) at ZFMK in Bonn

Postdocproject at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich funded via Bavarian Gender Equality Sponsorship 2014

Collection-based work at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin funded via von Pawel-Rammingen Stiftung

Scientific guest at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid funded via Synthesys (04/2011)

Doctoral studies at the Department of Zoology, Cambridge (UK) funded via the Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge European Trust and Balfour Fund (Department of Zoology Cambridge), and Derek-Brewer-Studentship of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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