Professor Dr. Stefan Richter

Address Universität Rostock
Institut für Biowissenschaften
Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie
Universitätsplatz 2
18055 Rostock

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Evolutionary morphology of hermit crab claws (Decapoda, Paguroidea) – what determines shape? (Research Grants)
  - Transformations in the evolution of Peracarida (Crustacea) (Research Grants)
  - The Tasmanian Mountain Shrimps (Anaspidacea, Malacostraca) – from the surface to underground: independent colonization and adaptations (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Development of the circulatory system in Crustacea - Testing potential homologies between arthropods and annelids (Research Grants)
  - Development and architecture of the nervous system in Cephalocarida and Mystacocarida - Testing the monophyly of Crustacea (Priority Programmes)
  - Morphologie und Ontogenese des Nervensystems ausgewählter Branchiopoda im Hinblick auf eine mögliche Entstehung der Cladocera (Research Grants)
  - Biodiversity of Australian Conchostraca - Phylogeography, taxonomy and phylogeny (Research Grants)
  - Compiling a morphological character matrix as the basis for a better understanding of the evolution of the metazoan nervous system (Research Grants)
  - Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: eScience-compliant standards for morphology (Cataloguing and Digitisation)
  - The protocerebrum and its sensory organs in maxillopodan crustaceans: testing the basal phylogenetic relationships within Tetraconata/Pancrustacea (Research Grants)
  - Malacostracan phylogeny and the evolution of the caridoid facies (Research Grants)
  - The evolution of the swimming crab morphotype – an extraordinary case of convergence? (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Mikro-Röntgen-Computer-Tomograph (Major Research Instrumentation)
  - Konfokales Laser-Scan-Mikroskop (Major Research Instrumentation)
  - Röntgenmikroskop (Major Research Instrumentation)
  - confocal laser scanning microscope (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Evolutionäre Morphologie der Kreislauforgane bei Mandibulata (Research Grants)
  - Phylogenetische Systematik der Anomala (Decapoda, Crustacea) - Evolution der Carcinisierung (Research Grants)