Dr. Kevin Karbstein

CV

• 10/2022 – present: Research assistant (PostDoc) at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry,  Department of Biogeochemical Integration (group J. Wäldchen), Jena, Germany – in collaboration with TU Ilmenau (group P. Mäder), Germany
• 10/2021 – 09/2022: Research assistant (PostDoc) at the Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Science, Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium) (group E. Hörandl), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.
• 12/2017 – 10/2021: PhD student at the Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Science, Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium) (group E. Hörandl), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. PhD-thesis (DFG, SPP 1991 TaxonOmics): “The biodiversity of apomictic polyploid plants: the Ranunculus auricomus complex.“ (final grade: "summa cum laude")
• 10/2014 – 09/2017: Master of Science in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Institute of Systematic Botany with Herbarium Haussknecht and Botanical Garden (group C. Römermann & F. Hellwig), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Master thesis: “Moving beyond assumptions: Relationships between population size, genetic and functional diversity, and habitat heterogeneity in Trifolium montanum.“
• 08/2016 – 09/2017: Research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute of Human History, Jena, Germany.
• 10/2015 – 03/2016: Internship and following working contracts at Forstliches Forschungs- and Kompetenzzentrum (FFK), Gotha, Germany. Project: “Forest adaptation in the middle, high und ridge altitudes of Thuringian Forest.“
• 10/2011 – 09/2014: Bachelor of Science Biology, Institute of Systematic Botany with Herbarium Haussknecht and Botanical Garden (group F. Hellwig), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Bachelor thesis: “Biologisch-ökologische Untersuchungen an Thymus praecox Opiz in den Badlands und in den umliegenden Halbtrocken- und Trockenrasen Thüringens mit Etablierung von Mikrosatellitenmarkern.“
• 06/2011: Abitur Gustav-Freytag-Gymnasium Gotha, Thuringia, Germany

Publications (* = shared authorships)

1. Hodač L, Karbstein K, Kösters L, Rzanny M, Wittich HC, Mäder P, Wäldchen J. Deep learning capture of leaf shape in plant images: validation by geometric morphometrics. under review in The Plant Journal.
   
2. Kösters L, Karbstein K, Hofmann M, Hodač L, Mäder P, Wäldchen J. Data Fusion for Integrative Species Identification using Deep Learning. under review in Systematic Biology
3. Kösters L*, Karbstein K*, Wäldchen J. ModelOptimizer: An R package for automatic simplification, check, and visualization of regression models. in prep. for JOSS.
   
4. Karbstein K, Kösters L, Hodač L, Hofmann M, Hörandl E, Tomasello S, Wagner ND, Emerson BC, Albach DC, Scheu S, Bradler S, de Vries J, Irisarri I, Li H, Soltis P, Mäder P, Wäldchen J. Species delimitation 4.0: integrative taxonomy meets artificial intelligence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution; 2024; 00; 00. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.002 
5. Bradican JP, Tomasello S, Boscutti F, Karbstein K, Hörandl E. Phylogenomics of southern European taxa in the Ranunculus auricomus species complex: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Plants; 2023; 12; 3664. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12213664 
6. Karbstein K, Tomasello S, Wagner N, Barke BH, Paetzold C, Bradican JP, Preick M, Iker I, Vries J, Hörandl E. Efficient hybrid strategies for assembling the plastome, mitochondriome, and large nuclear plant genome of diploid Ranunculus cassubicifolius (Ranunculaceae). BioRxiv, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.08.552429 
7. Karbstein K, Gockel S, Profft I. Autochthonous high-altitude spruces in German mountain systems - how can we recognize these conspicuous tree types? under review in Biologie unserer Zeit.
8. Karbstein, K, Römermann, C, Hellwig, F, Prinz, K. Population size affected by environmental variability impacts genetics, traits, and plant performance in Trifolium montanum. Ecology and Evolution, 2023; 13; e10376. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10376
9. Hodač L^*, Karbstein K^*, Tomasello S, Wäldchen, J, Bradican, JP, Hörandl E. Geometric morphometric versus genomic patterns in a large polyploid plant species complex. Biology, 2023; 12; 418. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12030418
10. Karbstein K, Tomasello S, Hodač L, Wagner N, Marincek P, Barke BH, Pätzold C, Hörandl E. Untying Gordian knots: Unraveling reticulate polyploid evolution by RRS genomic data using the large Ranunculus auricomus species complex. New Phytologist, 2022; 235; 2081-2098. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18284; BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.30.458250
11. Karbstein K. Untying Gordian knots - The evolution and biogeography of the large European apomictic polyploid Ranunculus auricomus plant complex. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, 2021; 1-475. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0008-5946-6
12. Karbstein K, Tomasello S, Hodač L, Lorberg E, Daubert M, Hörandl E. Moving beyond assumptions: polyploidy and environmental effects explain a geographic parthenogenesis scenario in European plants. Molecular Ecology, 2021; 30; 2659-2675. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15919
13. Karbstein K, Gockel S, Frischbier N, Kahlert K, Konnert, M, Profft I. 'High-altitude spruces' in Central Europe - a summarizing contribution to phenotypic and (epi)genetic differentiation within Picea abies (L.) H.KARST. Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitschrift (AFJZ), 2021; 9/10; 197-211. https://doi.org/10.23765/afjz0002068
14. Strecker T, Jesch A, Bachmann D, Jüds M, Karbstein K, Ravenek J, Roscher, C, Weigelt A, Eisenhauer N, Scheu S. Incorporation of mineral nitrogen into the soil food web as affected by plant community composition. Ecology and Evolution, 2021; 11; 4295-4309. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7325 
15. Karbstein K, Rahmsdorf E, Tomasello S, Hodač L, Hörandl E. Breeding system of diploid sexuals within the Ranunculus auricomus complex and its role in a geographical parthenogenesis scenario. Ecology and Evolution, 2020; 10; 14435-14450. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7073
16. Barke BH, Karbstein K, Daubert M, Hörandl E. The relation of meiotic behaviour to hybridity, polyploidy and apomixis in the Ranunculus auricomus complex (Ranunculaceae). BMC Plant Biology, 2020; 20; 523. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02654-3
17. Karbstein K, Tomasello S, Hodač L, Dunkel FG, Daubert M, Hörandl E. Phylogenomics supported by geometric morphometrics reveals delimitation of sexual species within the polyploid apomictic Ranunculus auricomus complex (Ranunculaceae). Taxon, 2020; 69; 1191-1220. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12365; BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.07.896902
18. Tomasello S, Karbstein K, Hodač L, Pätzold C, Hörandl E. Phylogenomics unravels Quarternary vicariance and allopatric speciation patterns in temperate-montane plant species: a case study on the Ranunculus auricomus species complex. Molecular Ecology, 2020; 29; 2031-2049. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15458; BioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.06.895904 
19. Karbstein, K, Prinz, K., Hellwig, F., Römermann, C. Plant intraspecific functional trait variation is related to within-habitat heterogeneity and genetic diversity in Trifolium montanum L. Ecology and Evolution, 2020; 10; 5015-5033. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6255 
20. Karbstein K, Tomasello S, Prinz K. Desert-like badlands and surrounding (semi-)dry grasslands of Central Germany promote small-scale phenotypic and genetic differentiation in Thymus praecox. Ecology and Evolution, 2019; 9; 14066–14084. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5844 

National and international activities

 - Editor for scientific journals:

• Haussknechtia (http://www.botanische-gesellschaft.uni-jena.de/tbg-Dateien/Page1281.html)

- Reviewer for scientific journals (latest first)

• Taxon, Scientific Reports, Horticulturae, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Plos One, Biology, MDPI, Planta, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Biocell, Journal of Biogeography, American Journal of Botany, Ecology and Evolution

- Conferences, Workshops, and Defenses

• 07/2024: "XX International Botanical Congress Madrid 2024", Madrid (Spain), three talks (Integrative Taxonomy meets Artificial Intelligence, Data Fusion for Integrative Taxonomy, Phylogenomics and Geometric Morphometrics in polyploid apomictic Ranunculus auricomus) & poster (Testing strategies for efficient plastome, mitogenome, and nuclear genome assemblies). https://ibcmadrid2024.com/?seccion=scientificArea&subSeccion=search 
• 08/2023: "Meeting of the Section Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology DBG", Gießen (Germany), session chair (Artificial Intelligence in Evolutionary Research) & talk (Integrative Taxon-omics and Artificial Intelligence). https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb08/Inst/botanik/spezbot/dbgsektionstagung2023/orga
• 03/2023: “24th Conference of Society of Biological Systematics GfBS”, Frankfurt a.M (Germany), talk Bernhardt-Rensch-Award (Ranunculus auricomus). https://www.gfbs-home.de/bernhard-rensch-preis
• 08/2022: “DBG Conference 2022“, Bonn (Germany), talk (Ranunculus auricomus), financially supported by Universitätsbund Göttingen e.V. https://t3-1.conventus-hetzner.de/fileadmin/congress/media/botaniker2022/pdf/Botaniker_2022_Programm.pdf
• 07/2022: “BOTANY 2022“, Anchorage, Alaska (USA), Online-Talk (Ranunculus auricomus). https://2022.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=summary
• 04/2022: “RADseq for phylogenOMICS“, Online-Workshop, Göttingen-Munich-Braunschweig (Germany), organization and talks. https://www.taxon-omics.com/news-events-bl/5-6-april-2022-rad-sequencing-for-phylogenomics
• 10/2021: “Untying Gordian knots - The evolution and biogeography of the large European apomictic polyploid Ranunculus auricomus plant complex“, PhD Thesis Defense, Göttingen (Germany)
• 04/2021: “SPP (II) 1991 (DFG) TaxonOmics Kick-Off Meeting“, online conference, talk (Ranunculus auricomus)
• 10/2019: “XVI OPTIMA Meeting”, Athens (Greece), talk (Ranunculus auricomus). https://www.optima-bot.org/meetings/XVIAbstracts.pdf
• 09/2019: “TaxonOmics Workshop Bioinformatics for RADSeq data“, Göttingen (Germany), organization, talks, and practical courses. https://taxon-omics.com/news-events-bl/28-29-sep-2019-workshop-radseq
• 06/2019: “3rd annual SPP 1991 (DFG) TaxonOmics Meeting“, Munich (Germany), talk (Ranunculus auricomus).
• 02/2019: “The background and application of ddRAD“, Mainz (Germany), talk and practical course. https://taxon-omics.com/news-events-bl/18-21-feb-2019-workshop-the-background-and-application-of-ddrad
• 08/2018: “II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology“, Montpellier (France), poster presentation (Ranunculus auricomus). https://oral-and-poster-abstracts.europa-group.com/index/slide/abstract/1871
• 02/2018: “3rd Annual Meeting in Conservation Genetics”, Vienna (Austria), talk (Trifolium montanum).
• 02/2017: “Schutz bedrohter Pflanzenarten in Mitteleuropa“, Berlin (Germany), poster presentation (Thymus praecox).