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About

Interests

Research

Molecular phylogenetics and systematics of plants
Divergence dating and historical biogeography
Biodiversity and conservation
High-throughput sequencing technologies
Evolution of Australian Orchids

Experience

2015 to present - Postdoctoral Researcher, Australian Tropical Herbarium (Cairns, Australia)
2013 to 2015 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie University Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2012 to 2013 - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
2009 to 2012 - PhD Student, Ludwig-Maximilians University (Munich, Germany)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Publications

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Journal Articles

Cooper W, Crayn D, Zich F, Miller R, Harrison M and Nauheimer L (2019) A review of Austrocallerya and Pongamia (leguminosae subfamily Papilionoideae) in Australia, and the description of a new monotypic genus, Ibatiria. Australian Systematic Botany, 32 (4), pp. 363-384, DOI:10.1071/SB18039.
Nauheimer L, Cui L, Clarke C, Crayn D, Bourke G and Nargar K (2019) Genome skimming provides well resolved plastid and nuclear phylogenies, showing patterns of deep reticulate evolution in the tropical carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes (Caryophyllales). Australian Systematic Botany, 32, pp. 243-254, DOI:10.1071/SB18057.
Di Vincenzo V, Gruenstaeudl M, Nauheimer L, Wondrafrash M, Kamau P, Demissew S and Borsch T (2018) Evolutionary diversification of the African achyranthoid clade (Amaranthaceae) in the context of sterile flower evolution and epizoochory. Annals of Botany, 122 (1), pp. 69-85, DOI:10.1093/aob/mcy055.
Joyce E, Crayn D, Lam V, Gerelle W, Graham S and Nauheimer L (2018) Evolution of Geosiris (Iridaceae): historical biogeography and plastid-genome evolution in a genus of non-photosynthetic tropical rainforest herbs disjunct across the Indian Ocean. Australian Systematic Botany, 31 (6), pp. 504-522, DOI:10.1071/SB18028.
Nargar K, Molina S, Wagner N, Nauheimer L, Micheneau C and Clements M (2018) Australasian orchid diversification in time and space: molecular phylogenetic insights from the beard orchids (Calochilus, Diurideae). Australian Systematic Botany, 31 (6), pp. 389-408, DOI:10.1071/SB18027.
Nauheimer L, Schley R, Clements M, Micheneau C and Nargar K (2018) Australasian orchid biogeography at continental scale: molecular phylogenetic insights for the Sun Orchids (Thelymitra, Orchidaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 127, pp. 304-319, DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.031.
Gruenstaeudl M, Nauheimer L and Borsch T (2017) Plastid genome structure and phylogenomics of Nymphaeales: conserved gene order and new insights into relationships. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 303 (9), pp. 1251-1270, DOI:10.1007/s00606-017-1436-5.
Muellner-Riehl A, Weeks A, Clayton J, Buerki S, Nauheimer L, Chiang Y, Cody S and Pell S (2016) Molecular phylogenetics and molecular clock dating of Sapindales based on plastid rbcL, atpB and trnL-trnF DNA sequences. Taxon, 65 (5), pp. 1019-1036, DOI:10.12705/655.5.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

Department of the Environment and Energy - National Taxonomy Research Grant program

Integrating phylogenomics and taxonomy ? resolving the complex evolution of the Donkey Orchids (Diuris) for the Flora of Australia

Indicative Funding: $270,000 over 3 years
Summary: This study aims to unravel the complex relationships in the Australian orchid genus Diuris for a well-founded treatment in the Flora of Australia. Evolutionary relationships of Diuris will be reconstructed at subgeneric, sectional and interspecific levels based on data set from the plastid and nuclear genomes. Population genomic analysis of two species complexes will allow for clarifying species delimitations and re-assessing the conservation status of threatened Diuris species. The taxonomic utility of morphological characters will be evaluated and improved identification keys and revised taxonomic concepts for Diuris generated for a revised treatment of the genus in the Flora of Australia.
Investigators: Lars Nauheimer, Darren Crayn, Mark Clements and Katharina Nargar (Australian Tropical Herbarium, College of Science & Engineering and Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation)
Keywords: Diuris (Orchidaceae); Next generation sequencing; Hybridization; Phylogenetics; Species delimitation; Target capture

Australasian Systematic Botany Society - Marlies Eichler Postdoctoral Fellowship

Phylogenomics and Taxonomy of the Donkey Orchids (Diuris, Orchidaceae)

Indicative Funding: $19,424 over 2 years
Summary: This study aims to unravel the complex relationships in the Australian orchid genus Diuris for a well-founded treatment in the Flora of Australia. Evolutionary relationships of Diuris will be reconstructed at subgeneric, sectional and interspecific levels based on data set from the plastid and nuclear genomes. Population genomic analysis of two sections will allow for clarifying species delimitations and re-assessing the conservation status of threatened Diuris species. The taxonomic utility of morphological characters will be evaluated and improved identification keys and revised taxonomic concepts for Diuris generated for a revised treatment of the genus in the Flora of Australia.
Investigators: Lars Nauheimer, Katharina Nargar and Mark Clements (Australian Tropical Herbarium and Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation)
Keywords: Diuris (Orchidaceae); Next generation sequencing; Hybridization; Phylogenetics; Species delimitation; Target capture

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