Christina Flammensbeck
e-mail: christina.flammensbeck@plantandfood.co.nz
Supervisors: Maren Wellenreuther, Anna Santure (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Molecular mechanisms underpinning temperature stress resilience in the Australasian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus)
Christina K Flammensbeck is a PhD student at the University of Auckland under the supervision of Dr Maren Wellenreuther and co-supervision of Dr Anna Santure. Christina obtained her bachelor’s degree in biology and her masters’ degree from the Munich Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology and Systematics (EES), both from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) in Germany. For her bachelor thesis, Christina studied the microanatomy and ultrastructure of a vermiform nudibranch living in the mesopsammon (Pseudovermis paradoxus). Her Masters research estimated divergence times and phylogenetic relationships of deep-sea sharks (order: Squaliformes) using Bayesian inference.
For her PhD, Christina is based off-campus at the Plant and Food Research Institute in Nelson. Christina is studying the genome and transcriptome of the Australasian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) in temperature experiments to understand molecular mechanisms underpinning temperature stress resilience. She is interested in the identification of key genes involved in adaptation to a changing climate, particularly in respect of increasing temperatures.
Research
I have a strong interest in evolution and fish genomics. For my PhD project I am going to study the genome and transcriptome of the Australasian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) to understand molecular mechanisms underpinning temperature stress resilience. I am interested in the identification of key genes involved in adaptation to a changing climate, particularly in respect of increasing temperatures.
Areas of expertise
Biology , Evolution , Systematics , Morphology , Marine Biology
Publications
Flammensbeck, C. K., Haszprunar, G., Korshunova, T., Martynov, A. V., Neusser, T. P., & Jörger, K. M. (2019). Pseudovermis paradoxus 2.0—3D microanatomy and ultrastructure of a vermiform, meiofaunal nudibranch (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 19(1), 41-62.
Flammensbeck, C. K., Pollerspöck, J., Schedel, F. D., Matzke, N. J., & Straube, N. (2018). Of teeth and trees: A fossil tip‐dating approach to infer divergence times of extinct and extant squaliform sharks. Zoologica Scripta, 47(5), 539-557.
Pollerspöck, J., Flammensbeck, C. K., & Straube, N. (2018). Palaeocentroscymnus (Chondrichthyes: Somniosidae), a new sleeper shark genus from Miocene deposits of Austria (Europe). PalZ, 92(3), 443-456.
