The evolutionary history of parasitic gastropods and their coral hosts
in the Indo-Pacific
Gittenberger, Adriaan
Citation
Gittenberger, A. (2006, November 29). The evolutionary history of parasitic gastropods and their coral hosts in the Indo-Pacific. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/5415
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Curriculum Vitae
Adriaan Gittenberger was born March 17th, 1976, in Leiden. After his education at the city gymnasium (ß), he started studying Biology at Leiden University in 1994. He acquired his MSc in 1999 (cum laude), with a specialization in taxonomy, ecology and molecular biology and a preference for marine biology. To in-crease his abilities, he followed from 1997-1998 lectures in 'Computer Science' at Leiden University. Additional courses that were attended are: 'Linnaeus II', by the Expert Centre for Taxonomic Identifi cation, Amsterdam (1999); “Implementing SQL 7.0 & Java 2.0, SUN certifi ed programmer”, by AtosOrigin, Utrecht (2000); 'Marine Biodiversity Data Manage-ment', by UNESCO, MARBEF & IODE, Flanders Marine Institute, Ostend, Belgium (2006) ; “Course in Taxonomy and Biology of Tunicates”, by The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Bocas Re-search Station, Bocas del Toro, Panama (2006).
Before the research project that resulted in the present thesis could begin, he worked for one year (1999-2000) as Project Leader & Software Engineer with AtosOrigin, Utrecht, on the development of the Confi guration Management Database for the Philips Global Network.
In the period 1999-2006 he worked as a research-er on a variety of short tresearch-erm projects related to marine invasive species and/or marine biodiversity for the ANEMOON foundation, Expert Centre for Taxonomic Identifi cation, European Invertebrate Survey, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Central Bureau of Statistics, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Paris National Museum of Natu-ral History, and the Smithsonian Marine Invasions Laboratory (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center).
A grant of the WOTRO foundation gave the op-portunity to acquire a position at the National Mu-seum of Natural History Naturalis to work on the subject of this thesis from 2000 on. Additional grants were received from: (1997) KNAW, Jan Joost ter Pelkwijkfonds, LUF and LUSTRA; (2000) KNAW; (2004) Jan Joost ter Pelkwijkfonds and Alida M. Buitendijk Fonds; (2005) Woodshole Oceanographic Institution, and NWO.
Since 2005 he is a Researcher at the National Mu-seum of Natural History Naturalis for the EU-funded MarBEF and BioCoMBE projects (www.Marbef.org & www.Biocombe.org).
Most of his activities and functions are in one way or another related to the marine environment:
Coordinator (since 1998) of the Marine Monitoring Projects MOO (since 1998) and SETL (since 2006) of the ANEMOON Foundation (www.anemoon.org). The MOO-project was honoured with the Dutch Underwater Sports Association NOB 2000 Science award. The SETL project is an international fouling community study organized in cooperation with the Marine Invasions Laboratory of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Institution, USA, the Na-tional Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Leiden, and the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University.
Board member of the SeaFoundation (since 2006). With its multidisciplinary methodology the Seafoun-dation focuses on combining the hydrographical, biological, environmental, chemical and technologi-cal knowledge present in universities, schools, re-search institutes, fi sheries, industrial companies and other foundations. As such the SeaFoundation works as an intermediate and promoter of projects concern-ing the marine environment worldwide, keepconcern-ing the People, Planet, Profi t concept in mind.
Webmaster (since 2000) of the websites on Gas-tropod Parasites and their Coral Hosts (since 2000) (www.ascidians.com/oio/corals.htm) and The Dutch Ascidians Homepage (since 2000) (www.ascidians. com)
President (2003-2006), secretary (1999-2000) and CMAS dive-instructor (since 2000) of the Scuba Diving Club “LOV Calypso”, Leiden, The Nether-lands.
Naturalis, Leiden University, Groningen University and Rotterdam Zoo) and the Sea Day Symposium for the European Invertebrate Survey (EIS), The ANE-MOON Foundation and the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis (2006).
Active membership of the National Exotic Species Workgroup (since 2005) of The Netherlands Flemish Ecological Society & Workgroup Ecological Water Management and a member of the steering commit-tee of the KaBar project (since 2005) of the Flemish institute for technological research (VITO), Belgium. (http://www.vito.be/english)
His special interest in ascidians, demonstrated in for example the Dutch Ascidians Homepage, re-sulted in contacts with: Lawrence Berkeley Na-tional Laboratory, California, USA; University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA; Nori Satoh Lab, Division of Molecular and Evolutionary Develop-mental Biology, Kyoto, Japan; Department of Ecol-ogy and Evolutionary BiolEcol-ogy, Cornell University, Corson Hall, Ithaca, USA; Department of Neuro-science, Uppsala University, Sweden; Jyväskyla University, Department of Biological and Environ-mental Sciences, Jyväskyla, Finland; Marine Biol-ogy Section, Marine Department, Ghent University, Belgium; Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecu-lar Biology, Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, Napoli, Italy.
His underwater photos, mainly but far from exclu-sively of ascidians, were used in popular and scien-tifi c journals, like Cell (2001), De Ingenieur (2005), Duiken (2006), Duikkrant (2001), Duikmagazine (2005, 2006), Mare (2005), Médécine Sciences (2003, 2006), Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau (2003) and Vita Malacologica (2004), in books by R. Leewis (2002, 2005) and R.P. Olinsji (2006), and in calendars of Bureau Waardenburg (2001, 2002, 2003).
His interests and expertise extend from fi eldwork, as a licensed, 2 star CMAS Dive Instructor, to the practical and theoretical work for molecular phylog-eny reconstruction.
For a varied audience of both amateurs, students and scientists 20 lectures on various aspects of marine biodiversity were given during the period 2004-2006. The fi rst price for the best student oral presentation was awarded at the World Congress of Malacology, Perth, Australia (2004), and the distinction for best
oral presentation was granted at the PhD-Day of the Research School Biodiversity, Leiden (2004). For publications that are not incorporated in this thesis, and posters, see below.
Publications, not incorporated in this thesis
Gmelig Meyling, A.W., R.H. de Bruyne, A. Git-tenberger & N. Schrieken, 1999. Using Scuba
diving: Data analyses of faunal research by scuba divers in the coastal waters of the province Zeeland; period 1994-1998, pp. 275, 4 appendices. ANE-MOON Foundation, Bennebroek, The Netherlands [in Dutch].
Gittenberger, A. & N. Schrieken, 2000a. The secret
weapon of Julius Caesar, solitary ascidians in the Netherlands. Onderwatersport, bondsblad NOB, May: 18-19 [in Dutch].
Gittenberger, A. & N. Schrieken, 2000b. The secret
weapon of Julius Caesar, part 2, colonial ascidians in the Netherlands. Onderwatersport, bondsblad
NOB, June: 12-13 [in Dutch].
Gittenberger, A., K. Vrieling & E. Gittenberger, 2001. Restricted gene fl ow between two alleged
subspecies of Albinaria cretensis (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae). Netherlands Journal of
Zoology 51(1): 71-84.
Gittenberger, A. & N. Schrieken, 2004.
Octo-pusses, squids and cuttlefi sh (Cephalopoda) of The Netherlands. Vita Malacologica 2: 33-38.
Gittenberger, A., 2006. The discovery of thirty-three
new snail species. Duiken 08-2006: 118 [in Dutch].
Gittenberger, A., in press. Recent population
expan-sions of non-native ascidians in The Netherlands. Proceedings of the fi rst international sea squirt conference. Journal of Experimental Marine
Biol-ogy and EcolBiol-ogy.
Gmelig Meyling, A. & A. Gittenberger, in press.
Recent Marine Invasions in The Netherlands. De
Levende Natuur [in Dutch].
Hoeksema, B.W. & A. Gittenberger, 2006. Marine
Flora and Fauna in book. Onderwatersport,
bonds-blad NOB, July-August: 42-47 [in Dutch].
Posters
Gittenberger, A., B.W. Hoeksema & E. Gitten-berger.
A biogeographical study of parasitic gastropods and their coral hosts in the Indo-West Pacifi c. At:
Biogeography of Southeast Asia 2000 Noordwij-kerhout; 4-9.06.2000.
The 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, Indonesia; 23-27.10. 2000.
PhD-day Biodiversity, Texel;11-12.12.2000. Ecological research in tropical coastal systems, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis; 14.06.2002.
Gittenberger, A., M. Bos & B.W. Hoeksema.
Mushroom corals (Fungiidae) and their associated gastropods: phylogenies and distributions. At:
The Seventh International Conference on Coe-lenterate Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence; 6-11.07.2003.
Gittenberger, A.
Recent population expansions of non-native ascidians in The Netherlands. At:
The 7th North Sea Days conference, Netherlands Institute of Sea Research, Texel; 13-14.10.2005
Flora & Fauna Square at the annual National scuba-diving fair, 4-5.2.2006.
