PEET-Bivalves

ISABELLA KAPPNER, Ph.D.

Department of Zoology
Division of Invertebrates
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
E-mail: ikappner@fieldmuseum.org

From October 2008
Postdoctoral fellow
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West and 79th Street
New York, NY, 10024-5192, USA.

Research Interests
Molecular evolution of Bivalvia.
Phylogenetic systematics, functional morphology, phylogeography and morphometrics of the marine bivalve family Veneridae.
Ecology and behavior of Vermetidae.

University Education
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolution, Ph.D. 2007 "Phylogenetic systematics of the marine bivalve subfamily Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815"
University of Bremen, Germany, Marine Biology, M.Sc., 1999

Publications
Kappner I. 2007. Phylogenetic systematics of the marine bivalve subfamily Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 546 p.

Kappner I. and R. Bieler 2006. Venus clam phylogeny (Bivalvia: Venerinae) as inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 317-331.

Mikkelsen P.M., R. Bieler, I. Kappner, T.A. Rawlings 2006. Phylogeny of Veneroidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta) based on morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148:439-521.

Bieler, R., Kappner, I., Mikkelsen, P.M. 2004. Periglypta listeri (Gray, 1838) in the western Atlantic: taxonomy, anatomy, life habits, and distribution (Bivalvia: Veneridae). Malacologia 46(2): 427-459.

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.

Kappner I. 1998 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, M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Bremen, Germany

Presentations
Kappner, I. 2006. Geometric morphometrics of convergent species pairs of the subfamilies Venerinae and Chioninae. In Malchus, N. & Pons, J.M. (eds), Bivalvia 2006, International Congress on Bivalvia: Abstracts. Electr. Suppl. 16, part 1. 1-82 - Abstracts and Posters of the "International Congress on Bivalvia" at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 22-27 July 2006. Organims, Diversity & Evolution 6(4): 327.

Kappner, I. & Bieler, R. 2006. Phylogenetic studies of the marine bivalve Subfamily Venerinae. In Malchus, N. & Pons, J.M. (eds), Bivalvia 2006, International Congress on Bivalvia: Abstracts. Electr. Suppl. 16, part 1. 1-82 - Abstracts and Posters of the "International Congress on Bivalvia" at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 22-27 July 2006. Organims, Diversity & Evolution 6(4): 327.

Mikkelsen, P.M., Bieler, R., Kappner, I., Rawlings, T.A. 2006. Phylogeny of Veneroidea (Heterodonta) based on morphology and molecules. In Malchus, N. & Pons, J.M. (eds), Bivalvia 2006, International Congress on Bivalvia: Abstracts. Electr. Suppl. 16, part 1. 1-82 - Abstracts and Posters of the "International Congress on Bivalvia" at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 22-27 July 2006. Organims, Diversity & Evolution 6(4): 327.

Kappner, I. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Venus clams: Digging up signs of the Atlantic invasion. Evolution 2005, 10-14 June, 2005
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., Bieler R. 2004. Phylogenies of the nominal subfamily Venerinae (Bivalvia: Veneridae) as inferred from morphology and molecules. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, New Orleans January 5-9, 2004. 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. 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. Geometric morphometrics of the convergent species pair Venus punctigera (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906) (Veneridae: Venerinae) and Lirophora paphia (Linnaeus, 1767) (Veneridae: Chioninae)

Kappner I. Systematics and biogeography of the subfamily Venerinae.

Kappner I. Systematic revision of the subfamily Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815 - The genus Venus Linnaeus, 1758

Field Experience
Helgoland (Germany), Banyuls sur Mer (France), Canary Islands (Spain, Eastern Atlantic), Cape Verde Islands, Senegal (West Africa), Florida Keys (USA), Panama (Pacific), Western Australia, Aqaba (Jordan), Eilat, Caesarea, and Mikhmoret (Israel), Egypt. Extensive scientific research vessel experience (North Sea, Atlantic, Mediterranean, Gulf of Aqaba, Pacific); plankton nets, trawling and dredging gear. Extensive SCUBA experience (Rescue Diver, Dive Master, DAN O2); underwater transects, UW-photography and videography. License to operate small watercraft. Identification, collection and preservation of marine invertebrates and fish.

Appointments
2008	Visiting Curator at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, Paris
2008	Course Coordinator/Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. BioSci 223 (Cell Biology laboratory) and BioSci 351 (Microbiology laboratory)
2008	Adjunct Faculty at the University of St. Francis, Joliet. BIOL 310 (Invertebrate Zoology)
2002-2007	Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago. BioSci 223 (Cell Biology), BioSci 272 (Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy), BioSci 325 (Vertebrate Embryology), BioSci 351 (Microbiology).
2000-2007	Research Assistant at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
1999	Research Assistant at Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany.
1996-1998	Research Assistant at the University of Bremen, Germany, Department of Geology.
1993-1995	Research Assistant at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany.

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