Cristian Camilo Barrera Grijalba, MSc

FWF Project: Revealing ancestral bilaterian cell types in chaetognaths.
Advisor: Tim Wollesen

room: 4.052
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Anna-Chiara Barta, MSc

Phylogeny and Evolution of Peracarida (Crustacea)
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser, Martin Schwendtner

Natural History Museum
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Julian Bibermair, MSc

Embryonic development of phylactolaemate bryozoans 
Advisor: Thomas Schwaha

room: 4.051
phone: +43 1 4277 76314
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Margret Eckhard, MSc

Characterisation of defense secretions of centipedes
Advisors: Andreas Wanninger, Janek von Byern

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Georgios Efthymiadis, MSc

Shedding light on the evolution of a blind cave fish
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser

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Iris Fischer, MSc

Ecological status of aquatic habitats in Vienna: critical comparison of classical monitoring and molecular genetic methods to assess species distribution and composition of the dragonfly fauna
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring

Alice Frisinghelli, BSc MSc

Mesoderm formation in chaetognaths
Advisor: Tim Wollesen

room: 4.052
phone: +43 1 4277 76352
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Antonia Grausgruber, MSc

EvoDevo of vermitids
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

room: 4.053
phone:+43 1 4277 76320
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Matthäus Greilhuber, MSc

Bridging the gap between population genetics and historic landscape ecology for large Branchiopods
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser

Natural History Museum Vienna
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Sophie Greistorfer, MSc

Glowing mucus – Characterisation of the unique defence secretion of Latia neritoides (Gastropoda)
Advisors: Gerhard Steiner, Janek von Byern

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Paul Arthur Höller MSc
Sea spider development and regeneration.
Advisor: Georg Brenneis

Room: 4.052
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Giulia Manso Marchioro MSc   

Functional diversity of coral fluorescent proteins in mesophotic reefs  
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser

Natural History Museum Vienna
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Mag. Katharina Mason

When genetics contradicts morphology: how does this affect our species concepts?
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring

Natural History Museum
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June Feliciano Fronda Ordonez, BSc MSc

Neuronal cell type development in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera (Busch, 1851)
Advisor: Tim Wollesen

room: 4.052
phone: +43 1 4277 76352
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Gudrun Schwarze, MSc

EvoDevo of vermitid gastropods
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

room: 4.053
phone:+43 1 4277 76319
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Mag. Katharina Wechselberger

Analysis of the main factors influencing the behavior of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) as a basis for the optimization of available crop protection measures on arable land.
Advisor: Harald Krenn

Willy De Mattia, MSc

Testing genital anatomical characters in clausiliid systematics on the example of Alopiinae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring

Defensio - Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025, 11:00am CET 

Mildred Johnson, MSc

The life cycle and systematics of the boring ctenostome bryozoan families Immergentiidae and Spathiporidae
Advisor: Thomas Schwaha
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Defensio - Friday, June 20th, 2025, 10:00am CET 

Sebastian Decker, MSc

Life cycle and systematics of boring bryozoans.
Advisor: Thomas Schwaha
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Defensio - Thursday, August 29th, 2024, 10:00am CET 

Susanne Reier, MSc

Elucidating phylogeographic patterns of minnows in complex aquifers of the Dinaric Karst
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser
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Natural History Museum Vienna
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Defensio - Monday, June 3rd 2024, 13:15 CET 

Sara Angjeliu BEd

Aktivitätsmessungen an kleinen Bodentieren mittels modernen Körperschall-Messmethoden
Advisor: Helmut Kratochvil

Patrick Frühwirth BSc

MicroRNA discoveries in the arrow worm
Advisor: Tim Wollesen     

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Maximillien Jadin BSc

Spiralian adhesive systems
Advisor: Tim Wollesen     

Room: 4.040
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Lisa Kindler BSc
Expression of "segmentation genes" in vermitid gastropods     
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

Room: 4.053

Leon Klaus BSc
The ctenostome bryozoan family Clavoporidae: diversity and description of new taxa      
Advisor: Thomas Schwaha

Room: 4.053
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Cora Lenz BSc 
Morphology of a vermetid gastropod
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

Room: 4.040
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Kathrin Lunzer BSc

Muscle development in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera 
Advisor: Tim Wollesen     

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Matthias Macourek BSc 
Fox gene expression in a polyplacophoran mollusk
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

Room: 4.040
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Ines Müller BSc
Comparative study of SIFamidergic neurons in the euchelicerate CNS.   
Advisor: Georg Brenneis

Room: 4.040

Laura Plazer BSc

In situ mini barcode sequencing and snip typing in cheetas using Oxford nanopore technologies (MinION).
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring

Simone Raus BSc
Reproduction biology of trochid gastropods.
Advisor: Gerhard Steiner

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Joshua Rolke BSc

Thorny-headed worms (Acanthocephala) of freshwater fishes of the Danube: comparison of modern and historical distribution
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring

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Bianca Sandgruber BSc
Schalenmorphologie bei Scaphopoda (Mollusca)
Advisor: Gerhard Steiner

Abby Šetena  BSc
Transcriptomics of a vermetid gastropod
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

Room: 4.040
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Maria Serracanta Fernandez  BSc
Expression of "segmentation genes" in a polyplacophoran mollusk
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

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Johannes Süß BSc

Population genomic analysis to reconstruct the introduction history and inter-island dispersal of the invasive Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) in the Galápagos Islands
Advisor: Luise Krickenhauser

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Katharina Weiss  BSc
Freshwater Bryozoa of the Wood Quarter in time and space
Advisor: Thomas Schwaha

Paul Arthur Höller BSc
Characterization of neurogenic cell types in Pycnogonum litorale (Strøm, 1762) via gene expression studies 
Advisor: Georg Brenneis
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Master's Defensio - Thursday, June 10th, 2025, 13:00 CET

Michaela Haas BEd
Morphology of the proboscis of Lycanidae, with focus on sensilla
Advisor: Harald Krenn

Master's Defensio - Thursday, March 28th, 2025, 15:15 CET

Michael Neulinger BSc
The Alimentary Tract of South African Monkey Beetles (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: HOPLIINI) Is Food Preference reflected in Gut Morphology?      
Advisor: Harald Krenn
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Master's Defensio - Monday, January 20th, 2025, 13:45 CET

Anna Feix BEd MSc PhD
Characterization of extracellular vesicles in the apicomplexan parasite Cystoisospora suis
Advisor: Gerhard Steiner

Max Hämmerle BSc
The development of the skeletomusculature in the sea spider Pycnogonum litorale (Strøm, 1762) - with first insight into chelicerate myogenesis at the cellular level
Advisor: Georg Brenneis
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Master's Defensio - Friday, December 13th, 2024, 14:00 CET

Augustina zu Löwenstein BSc
Lepidurus apus (L., 1758): A population genetic analysis through space and time
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser
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Master's Defensio - Thursday December 12th, 2024, 15:00 CE

Claudia Longin BEd
Morphology of the proboscis of Papilionidae (Lepidoptera)      
Advisor: Harald Krenn
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Master's Defensio - Wednesday, December 4th, 2024

Seyedeh Saghar Sadraei BSc
The expression of anterior nervous system markers in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera
Advisor: Tim Wollesen
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Master's Defensio - Friday, November 29th, 2024, 13:15 am CET email