Dr Georg Franz Josef Armbruster, PhD in natural sciences

Georg F. J. Armbruster, University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences; Section of Plant Ecology, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel (Schweiz)
Tel. ++41 (0)61 267 29-76 (Office) -75 (Lab), Fax ++41 (0)61 267 35 04
g.armbruster@unibas.ch

•Molecular Lab Supervisor
•Lecturer in population genetics and systematic zoology
•Interests Out-of-Office: Bird watching, land snails, Finnish language and grammar‚ Jass card game, travelling to islands

•Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
•Conservation Genetics
•BMC Evolutionary Biology
•Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
•Marine Biology
•Acta Oecologica
•National Science Foundation (USA)
•Israel Science Foundation

1963	Born at Lake of Constance
1979–1985	Conduction of nature conservation projects and field ornithological studies at Lake Constance, southern Germany.
1985–1991	Study of Biology at the University of Tübingen (Germany), with focus on Systematic Zoology, Paleontology, Genetics and Plant Physiology.
Winter–Summer 1988	Graduate courses in populationgenetics and cytogenetics at the University of Helsinki and Oulu, Finland
1991–1992	Master Thesis at the University of Tübingen on morphological and seasonal variability of hermaphroditic organs of land snails
1992–1995	PhD thesis at the University of Tübingen supported by a grant of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg. In my PhD thesis, I focused on the delimitation of evolutionarily significant units of self-fertilizing snails, using molecular and morphological data series
1995–1996	Researcher in ornithological, ecological and malacological projects at the NGO Institute BIOPLAN (Tübingen), and scientific co-worker as statistician at the University Hospital Tübingen
1997	Postdoc Fellow of the German Science Foundation at the University of Leipzig, Department of Zoology, and Research Fellow at the CNRS Genetique & Environnement in Montpellier, France
1998–2001	Lecturer and Research Assistant at the University of Leipzig, Department of Systematic Zoology/Ecology
Jan.-Febr. 2000	Research Fellow at the Australian Museum of Natural History (Sydney), supported by a grant of the German Science Foundation.
2002–2006	Lab Supervisor, Lecturer and Research Assistant  at the University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Section of Conservation Biology
since January 2007	Senior Researcher & Lab Supervisor in Population Biology, Section of Plant Ecology, University of Basel

•Molecular Methods in Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research (four weeks lab course; for 10 graduate students; Leipzig University, 1997-2001)
•Molecular Techniques in Conservation Genetics (two weeks lab course for 5 graduate students; Basel University, 2003-2005)
•Theory and Practise in Conservation Genetics (4 h lecture for 40 graduate students; Basel University, 2003-2005)
•Ecological Field Course (one week field course for graduate students; Basel University, since 2007)
•Comparative Anatomy of Animals (dissection course for 60 undergraduate students; Leipzig University, 1997-2001)
•Determination of Invertebrates and Vertebrates (course in taxonomy and identification of animals; for 100 undergraduate students at Leipzig University, 1997-2001)
•Faunistic Field Course (14 days field excursion on zoological diversity; for 100 undergraduate students; Leipzig University)
•Ornithological, Entomological and Malacological Excursions (for undergraduates and graduates during summer semester; Leipzig and Basel University)
•Evaluation of Invertebrate Collections of master students (Leipzig University, 1997-2001)
•Taxonomy and Classification of Land Snails (course for 50 undergraduate students; Basel University in cooperation with Basel Museum of Natural History, 2002-2006)
•Course in determination of animals (each spring semester, for 60 undergraduates and graduates; Basel University, since 2007)

•PCR, cloning, sequencing
•Genome Data Surveys, e.g. screening the Human Genome and other open-sources to reconstruct phylogenetic information
•Microsatellite DNA markers in populationgenetic and paternity reconstructions
•RAPD fingerprinting
•Allozyme electrophoresis
•RNA secondary structure analyses
•F-statistics and related methods in spatial population genetics
•Phylogenetic trees inferred from DNA sequences