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Dr.
£ukasz Kaczmarek
Address:
Department of Animal
Taxonomy and Ecology
A. Mickiewicz University
Umultowska 89
61-614 Poznań
Poland
E-mail: LK@tardigrada.net
or: kaczmar@amu.edu.pl
Website: http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~kaczmar/
or: http://www.ztez.amu.edu.pl/
Tel. 0048 (0) 606 38 46 87
Academic position:
Assistant Professor
Academic degrees:
PhD in Zoology
A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Obtained in 2008
MSc in
Environmental Biology
A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Obtained in 2003
Interests:
- Tardigrada: taxonomy, zoogeography, faunistics, ecology and morphology.
- Protura: taxonomy,
phylogeny, evolution, biogeography, faunistics, morphology, biology.
Scientific expeditions:
1999. Member of
scientific expedition to Tatra Mountains. Research on biodiversity of
liverworts in Tatrzanski National Park. (Co-ordinator Prof. Dr hab. J.
Szweykowski).
2000. Member of
scientific expedition to Mongolia. Research on Invertebrate biodiversity
in Mongolia.
2001.
Coorganiser of scientific expedition to Bieszczady National Park.
Research on Invertebrate biodiversity (e.g. Tardigrada with cooperation
with L. Michalczyk)
2001.
Coorganiser of scientific expedition to Ukraine and Russia (Three seas:
Sea of Azow, Black Sea and Caspian Sea) Research on Invertebrate
biodiversity.
2001-2004.
Operation Baltic (catching and marking birds).
2002.
Coorganiser of scientific expedition to Kyrgyzstan (Tien Shan Mountains)
Research on Invertebrate biodiversity (especially Tardigrada).
2002-2003.
Scientific expedition to Costa Rica. Research on Tardigrada biodiversity
(permit No 360-2002-OFAU).
2006.
Co organiser of scientific expedition to South America (Argentina,
Chile, Uruguay). Research on Invertebrate biodiversity (especially Acari
and Tardigrada) in South America.
Scientific projects:
2003. National Bidodiversity Inventory conducted by the Instituto Nacional de
Biodiversidad (INBio) and the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE)
with funds from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) throught the World
Bank (Costa Rica).
2003. ALAS
Arthropods of La Selva with funds from National Science Foundation-grant
DEB-0072702, Organization for Tropical Studies and (INBio) (Costa Rica, La
Selva Biological Station).
2003. IBISCA
2003 Investigating the Biodiversity of Soil and Canopy Arthropods with
main funding from Solvin/Solvay, STRI and Global Canopy Programme (Panama,
San Lorenzo National Park).
2004 - 2005.
Scientific tutor of the students project Biodiversity of Mediterranean
See Islands water-bears (Tardigrada).
2005 - 2008.
Grant KBN
No. 2P04F 05428.
Mites of the group
Heterostigmata (Acari) occurring in association with bark beetles (Insecta,
Scolytidae) on spruce in Poland (Insecta, Coleoptera): systematics,
ecology and estimation of ecological significance.
Grants:
2005-2008.
KBN grant (no. 2P04C 07729):
Water bears (Tardigrada)
of Tropical Rain Forests of Costa Rica Mixing of the Nearctic and
Neotropic Faunas.
2005.
EU SYNTHESYS grant (no. DK-TAF 1177): Morphological variability of the
oral cavity armature within and between some species and genera of
Eutardigrada (Tardigrada).
2006.
EU SYNTHESYS grant (no. DK-TAF 2586): Revision and redescription of
chosen Tardigrada type specimens of the Thulin's collection.
2009.
EU SYNTHESYS grant (no. DK-TAF-4888): Evolution of egg shell in
Eutardigrada and its taxonomic significance.
2009-2010.
DAAD Project. Molecular and morphological characterisation
of anhydrobiotic tardigrade species.
Awards:
2006.
Scholarship for young researchers from Poznan (scholarship awarded by
the Mayor of Poznań)
2006 2008
The best PhD student at the Faculty of Biology, A. Mickiewicz University.
2007.
Scholarship from the Foundation of Polish Science for young researchers
from Poland.
2008.
Scholarship from the Foundation of Polish Science for young researchers
from Poland.
2008.
Award from the President of A. Mickiewicz University.
2009.
Award from the Prime Minister of Poland.
Published peer-reviewed papers:
2010
-
Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2010. Description of Doryphoribius dawkinsi, a new
species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from the Costa
Rican highlands, with the key to the genus Doryphoribius
. Zootaxa, 2393: 46-58.
-
Kristensen R.M., Michalczyk £. &
Kaczmarek £. 2010. The first record of the genus
Bryodelphax (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)
from Easter Island, Rapa Nui (Pacific Ocean, Chile) with the
description of a new species, Bryodelphax aaseae.
Zootaxa, 2343: 45-56.
-
Kaczmarek £., Bertolani R.
& Nźdzyńska-Stygar M. 2010. Thulinius saltursus comb.
nov.: a new systematic position for Isohypsibius saltursus
Schuster, Toftner & Grigarick, 1978 (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae)
and a key for the genus Thulinius.
Zootaxa, 2483: 58-64.
- Kaczmarek, £., Michalczyk,
£. 2010. Redescription of Dactylobiotus grandipes
(Schuster, Toftner & Grigarick, 1978), the type species for the
genus Dactylobiotus (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae).
Genus, 21(1): 155-162.
- Kaczmarek, £., Michalczyk,
£. 2010. The genus Echiniscus Schultze 1840 (Tardigrada) in
Costa Rican (Central America) rain forests with descriptions of two
new species. Tropical Zoology, 23(1): 91-106.
- Claxton S.K., Beasley C.W.,
Kaczmarek, £. & Michalczyk, £. 2010. Redescription of
Doryphoribius zyxiglobus (Horning, Schuster & Grigarick 1978)
(Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) and extension of its geographic range.
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 37 (3): 243-253.
- Rost-Roszkowska, M.M., Poprawa, I.,
Wójtowicz, M., & Kaczmarek, £. 2010.
Ultrastructural changes of the midgut epithelium in Isohypsibius
granulifer granulifer Thulin, 1928 (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada)
during oogenesis. Protoplasma, ?: 1-10 (in press).
- Kaczmarek, £., Go³dyn B.,
Czyæ M. & Michalczyk, £. 2010. The first records of
Isohypsibius pushkini Tumanov, 2003 (Eutardigrada,
Hypsibiidae) from Poland. Biological Letters, (in press).
2009
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Kaczmarek, £., Michalczyk,
£. 2009. Redescription of Hypsibius microps Thulin,
1928 and H. pallidus Thulin, 1911 (Eutardigrada:
Hypsibiidae) based on the type material from the Thulin
collection. Zootaxa, 2275: 60-68.
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Kaczmarek, £., Michalczyk,
£. 2009. Two new species of Macrobiotidae,
Macrobiotus szeptyckii (harmsworthi group) and
Macrobiotus kazmierskii (hufelandi group) from
Argentina. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, Seria B - Invertebrata,
52(1-2): 87-99.
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Kaczmarek £. 2009.
Zoologia. Bezkrźgowce. Praca zbiorowa pod redakcj¹ Cz. B³aszaka:
Tom 1. Typ: Niesporczaki-Tardigrada PWN, t 1., 694-701.
2008
- Kaczmarek £. 2008.
Niesporczaki (Tardigrada). W: Fauna Polski, Charakterystyka i wykaz
gatunków (Bogdanowicz W., Chudzicka E., Pilipiuk I. i Skibińska E.,
red.). Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa, 3: 543-548.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. & Eggermont H. 2008. Dactylobiotus luci, a new
freshwater tardigrade (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from the
Ruwenzori Mountains (Uganda/DR Congo). African Zoology, 43(2):
150-155.
- Bartels P.J., Nelson D.R.,
Kaczmarek £. & Michalczyk £. 2008. Three new species and
one record of the genus Doryphoribius Pilato, 1969 (Tardigrada:
Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from the Great Smoky Mountans National
Park (Tennessee, USA) Journal of Natural History, 42 (41-32):
2595-2608.
- Beasley C.W., Kaczmarek £.
& Michalczyk £. 2008. Doryphoribius mexicanus, a new
species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from Mexico (North
America). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington,
121(1): 34-40.
- Degma P., Michalczyk £. & Kaczmarek
£. 2008. Macrobiotus derkai, a new species of
Tardigrada (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae, huziori group) from the
Colombian Andes (South America). Zootaxa, 1731: 1-23.
- Vincente F., Michalczyk £.,
Kaczmarek £. & Boavida M-J. 2008. Observations on
Pyxidium tardigradum (Ciliophora), a protozoan living on
Eutardigrada: infestation, morphology and feeding behaviour.
Parasitology Reserch, 103: 1323-1331.
2007
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£., Degma P. 2007. Description of a new tardigrade Macrobiotus
barbarae (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from the Dominican Republic.
Annales Zoologici 57(3): 363-369.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2007. A new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae):
Milnesium krzysztofi from Costa Rica (Central America). New Zealand
Journal of Zoology 34: 297-302.
- Bartels P. J., Nelson D. R.,
Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk £. (2007) Doryphoribius smokiensis,
a new species of Eutardigrada (Hypsibiidae) from the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, TN, USA (North America). Zootaxa 1646:
59-65.
- Pilato G., Kaczmarek £.
(2007) Macrobiotus alvaroi, a new species of eutardigrade
(Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae) of the polyopus group from Costa Rica
(Central America).Zootaxa 1479: 1-7.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
(2007). Echiniscus ganczareki, a new species of Tardigrada
(Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae, bigranulatus group) from Costa Rica.
Zootaxa 1471: 15-25.
- Chang C. Y., Kaczmarek £.,
Lee J. M., and Michalczyk £. (2007). Pseudobiotus spinifer, a new
tardigrade species (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from Nakdong River,
South Korea, with a redescription of P. vladimiri Biserov, Dudichev
& Biserova. Zoological Science 24, 623-629.
2006
- Kaczmarek £., Beasley
C.W., Michalczyk £. 2006 The first record of the genus
Haplohexapodibius Pilato & Beasley, 1987 in Africa with notes on
synonymy of Hexapodibius beasleyi Maucci, 1988 with
Haplohexapodibius seductor Pilato & Beasley, 1987. African Zoology
41(2): 290-293.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2006. Redescription of Macrobiotus tridigitus Schuster,1983 and
the erection of a new genus of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada,
Macrobiotidae). Journal of Natural History 40(19-20): 1223-1229.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2006. Ramazzottius bunikowsae, a new species Tardigrada
(Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae) from Russia. Zootaxa 1229: 49-57.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£., Guidetti R. 2006. Description of the new species Calcarobiotus
(C.) longinoi sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Costa Rica
with the diagnostic key to the genus Calcarobiotus. Italian Journal
of Zoology 73(3): 247-253.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2006. The Tardigrada fauna of Mongolia (Central Asia) with a
description of Isohypsibius altai sp. nov. (Eutardigrada:
Hypsibiidae). Zoological Studies 45(1): 11-23.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£., Diduszko D. 2006. Ramazzottius bunikowskae, a new species of
Tardigrada Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae) from Russia. Zootaxa 1229:
49-57.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2006. A new species Macrobiotus magdalenae (Tardigrada:
Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae, richtersi group) from Costa Rican rain
forest (Central America). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 33:
189-196.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2006. Macrobiotus huziori, a new species of Tardigrada
(Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Costa Rica (Central America).
Zootaxa 1169: 47-59.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2006. Revision of the Echiniscus bigranulatus group with a
description of a new species Echiniscus madonnae (Tardigrada:
Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) from South America. Zootaxa 1154:
1-26.
- Kaczmarek £., Beasley
C.W., Michalczyk £. 2006 New records of tardigrades from China with
zoogeographical remarks. Biological Letters 43(1): 3-10.
2005
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2005. Thulinius ruffoi Bertolani, 1981 - rodzaj i gatunek
niesporczaka (Tardigrada) nowy dla fauny Polski. Przegl¹d
Zoologiczny XLIX (1-2): 57-59.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£., Degma P. 2005. A new species of Tardigrada Bryodelphax
brevidentatus sp. nov. (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae) from China
(Asia). Zootaxa 1080: 33-38.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£., Diduszko D. 2005. Some tardigrades from Siberia (Russia, Baikal
region) with a description of Macrobiotus garynahi sp. nov.
(Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: richtersi group). Zootaxa 1053: 35-45.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2005. The first record of the genus Calohypsibius Thulin, 1928
(Eutardigrada: Calohypsibiidae) from Chile (South America) with a
description of a new species Calohypsibius maliki. New Zealand
Journal of Zoology 32: 287-292.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.,
Claxton S., K. 2005. Minibiotus weglarskae, a new species of
Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Mongolia. Zootaxa
1008: 47-56.
2004
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2004. Macrobiotus macrocalix Bertolani & Rebecchi, 1993 - nowy
gatunek niesporczaka (Tardigrada) dla fauny Polski. Badania
Fizjograficzne nad Polsk¹ Zachodni¹, Seria C - Zoologia 50: 39-43.
- Kaczmarek £. 2004.
Niesporczaki (Tardigrada) Rezerwatu Meteoryt Morasko". Badania
Fizjograficzne nad Polsk¹ Zachodni¹, Seria C - Zoologia 50: 35-37.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2004. Minibiotus eichhorni sp. nov., a new species of eutardigrade
(Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae) from Peru; Annales Zoologici 54 (4):
673-676.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2004. The first record of water bears (Tardigrada) from Jordan;
Dirasat, Pure Sciences 31(2): 154-157.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£., Beasley C. W. 2004. Milnesium katarzynae sp. nov., a new species
of eutardigrade (Milnesiidae) from China. Zootaxa 743: 1-5.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2004. First record of the genus Doryphoribius Pilato, 1969 from
Costa Rica (Central America) and description of a new species
Doryphoribius quadrituberculatus (Tardigrada: Hypsibiidae); Genus 15
(3): 447-453.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2004. Notes on some tardigrades from South Africa, with the
description of Diphascon (Diphascon) zaniewi sp. nov. (Eutardigrada:
Hypsibiidae). Zootaxa 576: 1-6.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk £. 2004. New
species Bryodelphax asiaticus sp. nov. from Mongolia (Tardigrada:
Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae). Raffles Zoology 52(2): 599-602.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2004. Diphascon (Diphascon) ilitsi (Schuster et Grigarick, 1965)
- gatunek niesporczaka (Tardigrada) nowy dla fauny Polski; Przegl¹d
Zoologiczny XLVIII (1-2): 97-98.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2004. Isohypsibius archangajensis, a new species of eutardigrada
(Hypsibidae) from Mongolia; Annales Zoologici 54 (2): 467-470.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2004. New records of Tardigrada from Cyprus with a description of
the new species Macrobiotus marlenae (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae,
hufelandi group); Genus 15 (1): 141-152.
2003
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2003. Niesporczaki (Tardigrada) Wielkopolskiego Parku Narodowego
(Polska zachodnio-centralna); Salamandra 7: 55-64.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2003. A description of the new tardigrade Macrobiotus reinhardti
(Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae, harmsworthi group') with some remarks
on the on the oral cavity armature within the genus Macrobiotus;
Zootaxa 331: 1-24.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2003. Isohypsibius marcellinoi Binda et. Pilato, 1971 - nowy
gatunek niesporczaka (Tardigrada) dla fauny Polski; Przegl¹d
Zoologiczny XLVII (1-2): 95-96
- Pilato G., Kaczmarek £.,
Michalczyk £., Lisi O. 2003. Macrobiotus polonicus, a new species of
Tardigrada from Poland (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae, hufelandi
group'); Zootaxa 258: 1-8
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2003. Water Bears (Tardigrada) of the Bieszczady Mountains (Poland,
West Carpathians); Zootaxa 242: 1-24.
- Michalczyk £., Kaczmarek £.
2003. Minibiotus constellatus, a new species of Tardigrada from Peru
(Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae); Genus 14 (2): 295-305.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2003. Platicrista horribilis, a new species of Tardigrada
(Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from Mongolia; Zootaxa 132: 1-8.
- Kaczmarek £. 2003. New
records of and key to Tardigrada from Costa Rica; Zootaxa 177: 1-4.
2002
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£., Wźglarska B. 2002. Itaquascon mongolicus, a new species of
Eutardigrada from Mongolia (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae); Genus 13
(1): 1-3.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2002. Niesporczaki (Tardigrada) Rezerwatu W¹wóz Myliborski"
(Park Krajobrazowy Che³my); Salamandra 6: 29-33.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2002. Echiniscus barbarae, a new species of tardigrade from Cuba
Island (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada, Echiniscidae, "arctomys group");
Zootaxa 53: 1-4.
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2002. Calohypsibius schusteri Nelson et. McGlothlin, 1996 and
Macrobiotus crenulatus Richters, 1904 - gatunki niesporczaków
(Tardigrada) nowe dla fauny Polski; Przegl¹d Zoologiczny XLVI, 1-2:
67-69.
- Kaczmarek £., Beasley C.
W. 2002 Water bears (Tardigrada) of China; Fauna of China (Z. Q.
Zhang ed.) 4:65-76.
2001
- Kaczmarek £., Michalczyk
£. 2001. Wodne misie czyli niesporczaki znane i nieznane; Materia³y
V przegl¹du Dzia³alnoci Studenckich Kó³ Naukowych Przyrodników;
Wroc³aw, 129-132.
2000
- Kaczmarek £., B³aszak C.
2000. Niesporczaki (Tardigrada) Bieszczadów; Monografie
Bieszczadzkie. 7: 29-33.
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