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Dr. Julius Jeiter


Nees-Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen
Meckenheimer Allee 170  
53115 Bonn
 

  • Room: 2.005
  • Telephone: +49-228-73-4166
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  • Twitter: @jjeiter
  • Office hours: by appointment

 

Research project

I am interested in functional floral and nectary morphology and evolution. My focus is on the evolution of floral architectures and how nectaries are integrated and contribute to floral function.

Besides 'classical' methods, such as scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy I employ 3D-based approaches based on micro-computed tomography (µCT). The results are interpreted and analysed in the context of the recent phylogenetic understanding of the focal groups.

My main study groups are the Geraniales and Boraginales, but I am interested in a variety of plant groups and morphological phenomena.

 

Internships, projects, theses etc.

Please contact me via email, if you are a student of the University of Bonn and interested in working on flower morphology, development and evolution using scanning electron microscopy or micro-computed tomography.

 

Curriculum Vitae

  • since 09/2020 Associate Editor, Plant Systematics and Evolution
  • since 10/2019 Research assistant (Prof. Dr. Weigend), Nees-institute for biodiversity of plants, University of Bonn, Germany
  • 05/2019 Award: Winner of the T-shirt design contest, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Sektion Biodiversität und Evolution.
  • 04/2019-07/2019 Research associate (Prof. Dr. Weigend), Nees-institute for biodiversity of plants, University of Bonn, Germany
  • 10/2018-01/2019 Research associate (Prof. Dr. Weigend), Nees-institute for biodiversity of plants, University of Bonn, Germany
  • 05/2018-09/2018 Research associate and lecturer (Prof. Dr. Weigend), Nees-institute for biodiversity of plants, University of Bonn, Germany
  • 08/2017-09/2017 Visiting scientist, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research (Prof. Dr. Jürg Schönenberger), University of Vienna, Austria (funded by a travel grant from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) 
  • 08/2017-09/2017 Research associate and lecturer (Prof. Dr. Weigend), Nees-institute for biodiversity of plants, University of Bonn, Germany
  • 08/2016-09/2016 Research associate and lecturer (Prof. Dr. Weigend), Nees-institute for biodiversity of plants, University of Bonn, Germany
  • 05/2015-09/2019 Doctoral student (partially funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Nees-institute for biodiversity of plants, University of Bonn, Germany
  • 10/2014-04/2015 Research assistant, Plant morphology and systematics (Prof. Dr. Hilger), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • 10/2011-09/2014 Master of Science in Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • 04/2008-09/2011 Bachelor of Science in Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
 
 

Featured publications

  • Jeiter J., Langecker S. & Weigend M. (in press) Towards and integrative understanding of stamen-corolla tube modifications and floral architecture in Boraginaceae s.s. (Boraginales). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.   dx.doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boz112
  • Jeiter J. & Weigend M. (2018) Simple scales make complex compartments – ontogeny and morphology of stamen-corolla tube modifications in Hydrophyllaceae (Boraginales). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 125: 802–820. dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly167
  • Jeiter J., Hilger H. H., Smets E. F. & Weigend M. (2017) The relationship between nectaries and floral architecture: a case study in Geraniaceae and Hypseocharitaceae. Annals of Botany 120: 791–803. dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx101

 

Complete publications list

 

Others about our work

  • Seiler J. (2018) Elfengleich. Forsch, University of Bonn 1/2018: 19. (Link to PDF)

 

Teaching

Winter term 2020/2021

  Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Education

  • WBIO-C-E4: Licht- und rasterelektronenmikroskopisches Praktikum - Mikromorphologie und Anatomie der Samenpflanzen (course catalog)

  Master of Science

Summer term 2020

  Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Education

  Master of Science
  •  PBIO / OEP28: Systematics and Biology of Flowering Plants (course catalog)

Summer term 2018

  • PBIO / OEP28: Systematics and Biology of Flowering Plants (course catalog)

Summer term 2017

  • WP03 - Biodiversität und Evolution der Pflanzen: Schwerpunkt C - Funktionelle Ökologie der Pflanzen (course catalog)

Summer term 2016

  • WP03 - Biodiversität und Evolution der Pflanzen: Schwerpunkt C - Funktionelle Ökologie der Pflanzen (course catalog)
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