Curriculum vitae

Markus Haber

E-mail: M.Haber@web.de

Nationality: Germany

Academic:

December 2005 -
PhD student on a Marie-Curie Grant, Department of Zoology, University of Tel Aviv, Israel

1998 - 2003
Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster
Degree: Biology Diploma
Major Zoology, Minors Botany, Biochemistry
Thesis: Analysis of population structure in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Volunteer work:

September 1999 Seal centre Friedrichskoog, Germany
Guiding classes and groups of visitors, seal care, assisting in a catch of wild seals in the North Sea for the University of Kiel

March 2000 Bat group of the NABU Münster, Germany (a national environmental conservation group)
Tasks: Net catches, building and checking of resting sites

February - March 2001 Senckenberg Institute Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Work involved collecting and sorting of benthos samples

June - August 2002 Lajuma Mountain retreat, Soutpansberge, South Africa
Participation in the Leopard project. Collecting and mapping of scats, scratch marks and tracks, radio tracking and data entry, leopard trapping

Nov. - Dec. 2003 British Park predator research project, Israel
Work involved daily radio tracking of jackals and hyena, data entry and trapping of animals

March - May 2004 Soay Sheep Project, St. Kilda, Scotland
Spring excursion. Tasks: daily lamb census, lamb catches, weighing, ear tagging, measuring of lambs. Preparing blood samples

July - August 2004 Soay Sheep Project, St. Kilda, Scotland
Summer excursion. Tasks: Censuses of behavior and location of all sheep in the study area. Sheep catch in the study area, measuring, preparation of samples for parasite counts, whole island count of the sheep population, blood samples preparation, sheep tagging

Attended conferences:

09/06/03 - 12/06/03 Annual meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG) in Berlin, Germany (Poster presentation)

27/02/04 - 29/02/04 Co-evolution 2004 Graduate meeting in Evolutionary Biology in Münster, Germany (Talk)

Publications:

Haber M, Schüngel M, Putz A, Müller S, Hasert B, Schulenburg H: Evolutionary History of Caenorhabditis elegans Inferred from Microsatellites: Evidence for Spatial and Temporal Genetic Differentiation and the Occurrence of Outbreeding. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22: 160-173 (2005)

Various things:

Languages: German, English fluent, Hebrew (basics)
Driving licences: Car, motorbike
Hobbies: Scuba diving (certificates: CMAS **, Nitrox), snorkeling, basketball, football, inline skating, jogging, volleyball, listening to music, reading, many other things