Dr. Jonas Astrin

Head of Section
Biobank Curator

Biobank

Tel: +49 228 9122-357

Fax: +49 228 9122-6357

Mail: j.astrin [at] leibniz-lib.de

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Research interests

Biobank management, biospecimen science, DNA preservation, cell culture, DNA barcoding, integrative taxonomy, wildlife forensics, LIS (Library and Information Science)

Memberships

GGBN - Global Genome Biodiversity Network, ISBER - International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories, Frozen Ark Consortium, DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) (advisor), iBOL Science Committee, Animal Biobanking for Conservation Specialist Group at IUCN

External websites and profiles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-astrin-b8480233/

Projects

2022

BGE - Biodiversity Genomics Europe

Unit:

Comparative Vertebrate Genomics, Biobank, Metabarcoding, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera

Project lead:

Astrid Böhne

Funding:

European Union

CellGen

The CellGen project is composed of two main parts. The first part investigates whether cell cultures accumulate mutations with progressive number of passages. One of the advantages of cell culture is to provide best quality of DNA/RNA and metaphases. Hence, we expect that cell culture will experience a renaissance in the light of high throughput sequencing techniques. However, it is still not clear how the number of passages (i.e., the number of times cells are transferred from vessel to vessel) can affect genetic and chromosomal composition.

Unit:

Biobank, Comparative Vertebrate Genomics, Hymenoptera

Project lead:

Dr. Camilla Bruno Di Nizo

ERGA - The European Referen...

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) initiative is a pan-European scientific response to current threats to biodiversity. Reference genomes provide the most complete insight into the genetic basis that forms each species and represent a powerful resource in understanding how biodiversity functions. ERGA aims to sequence the genomes of all European species and will for this establish an interdisciplinary workflow.

Unit:

Comparative Vertebrate Genomics, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Comparative Insect Genomics, Biobank

Project lead:

Astrid Böhne

Funding:

European Union

2021

Genomic technology for the Caucasus

It is planned to undertake 1) a comprehensive upgrade of researchinfrastructure in the molecular ecology laboratory at ISU, and 2) ajoint research investigation of biodiversity and refugial areas in the Caucasus region. Improvements to research infrastructure will providemodern biotechnology to researchers in the Caucasus region, including next generation sequencing (NGS) and real time PCR.

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Administration

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

2020

CaBOL - Caucasus Barcode of Life

A Georgian-Armenian-German initiative to build research infrastructures and to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Department Arthropoda, Biodiversity Informatics, Diptera, Administration

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

GBOL III: Dark Taxa

The BMBF-funded GBOL, the German Barcode of Life initiative, has been run successfully over the last eight years. It delivered an operative DNA barcode reference library for German animals, fungi and plants. However, a significant proportion of insect taxa has so far been excluded from GBOL and merely all biodiversity research, because no or only very insufficient expertise and information are available that allow to get a grip on them. They are called “Dark Taxa”.

Unit:

Hymenoptera, Diptera, Chair Systematic Zoology, Mammalogy, Biobank, Biodiversity Informatics, Directorate, Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation Science (zbm), Administration, ZFMK International Graduate School, Metabarcoding, Department Arthropoda, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)

Project lead:

Dr. Ralph S. Peters

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2019

FOGS - Forensic Genetics for Species Protection

The FOGS project develops DNA-based tools to combat illegal trade in protected animal species.

Unit:

Biobank, Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Experimental and Applied Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, Herpetology, Administration, Computational Genomics, Department Arthropoda

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Joint Danube Survey

JDS monitors key water quality elements (including biodiversity) for the length of the Danube River and its major tributaries.

Unit:

Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

DNA barcoding of benthic invertebrates from Lake Sevan (Armenia)

Building a reference database of DNA barcodes for the Lake Sevan drainage basin

Unit:

Biobank, Lepidoptera, Department Arthropoda

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Funding:

German Academic Exchange Service

SYNTHESYS+ NA3.1

SYNTHESYS+ subproject NA3.1 collects existing standards and practices in the biodiversity biobanking community and identifies gaps.

Unit:

Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Funding:

European Union

2018

ISBER Best Practices: Recommendations for Repositories

Guidance for the collection, handling, storage, and distribution of biological and environmental samples

Unit:

Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Cell banking at the LIB Biobank

ZFMK Biobank archives viable cell material for research and ex-situ conservation.

Unit:

Biobank, Hymenoptera, Comparative Vertebrate Genomics

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

2017

GGBC: Assessment, Monitoring and Management of Caucasian Biodiversity

A Georgian-German initiative to explore and barcode the biodiversity of the Caucasus area

Unit:

Directorate, Chair Systematic Zoology, Biobank, Department Arthropoda, Coleoptera, Mammalogy, Lepidoptera, Herpetology, Administration, ZFMK International Graduate School, Biodiversity Informatics, Metabarcoding, Myriapoda, Arachnids, Staff Council, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Comparative Insect Genomics

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Optimizing and standardizing the preservation of animal tissue for molecular biodiversity research

Towards establishing a clearer, comparative perspective on some of the most commonly used preservation/fixation fluids in zoological biobanking.

Unit:

Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

2014

Bumbuna Phase II Project

Baseline Study and Ecological Monitoring before and after the inundation of the Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project Reservoir.

Unit:

Mammalogy, Taxidermy, Ichthyology, Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jan Decher

Funding:

Combined Ecology, BTO Services Ltd., UK

ESBB & ISBER Enviro-Bio Working Group

The Enviro-Bio Working Group is a collaboration of biodiversity biobanks within ISBER and ESBB, the international and European biobanking societies.

Unit:

Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

2012

Frozen Ark Project

Network for ex-situ conservation of molecular biodiversity

Unit:

Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN)

Establishing standards for the preservation of molecular samples and molecular biodiversity.

Unit:

Biobank, Biodiversity Informatics

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

2011

GBOL- German Barcode of Life

"German Barcode of Life" ( GBOL ) is a project sponsored by the BMBF and includes the creation of inventories for the gentic characterization of the animals, fungi and plants of germany, using DNA-Barcodes.

Project lead:

Prof. Dr. J. Wolfgang Wägele

Funding:

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Molecular Weevil Identification

DNA barcoding the European weevil fauna and building molecular and morphological weevil collections

Unit:

Biobank, Coleoptera

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

2007

DNA Bank Network

Unit:

Directorate, Molecular Laboratory, Biobank, Chair Systematic Zoology, Chair Molecular Biodiversity Research

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Integrative taxonomy in cryptic weevils

Integrative taxonomy and DNA barcoding in western Palearctic weevils of the subfamily Cryptorhynchinae

Unit:

Biobank

Project lead:

Dr. Jonas Astrin

Funding:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publications

Published in

2012

Stüben, P. E., Astrin, J. J. (2012): Integrative Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and New Species of the Weevil Genus Onyxacalles Stüben (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). - Psyche 2012 (654948): 1-22.

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Links:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/654948

Wägele, J. W., Astrin, J. J., Balke, M., Hausmann, A., Krogmann, L., Hendrich, L., Pietsch, S., Raupach, M., Schmidt, S., Segerer, A. H., Haszprunar, G. (2012). Taxonomie am Scheideweg? Eine moderne Taxonomie als große Chance mit Zukunftsperspektive (eine Antwort an M. Jaschhof). - Studia dipterologica 18 2011 (2012): 105-117.

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Links:

http://www.studia-dipt.de/data/18105.pdf

2011

Astrin, J. J. (2011): Biodiversität schneller erfassen – DNA-Barcoding und integrative Taxonomie bei Rüsselkäfern. - Koenigiana 5: 15-22.

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Astrin, J. J. & Stüben, P. E. (2011): Molecular phylogeny of Echinodera and Ruteria (Coleoptera : Curculionidae : Cryptorhynchinae) and the parallel speciation of Canary Island weevils along replicate environmental gradients. - Invertebrate Systematics 24: 434-455.

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Links:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS10021

Pietsch, S. J., Astrin, J. J., Wägele, J. W. (2011): Germany launches the German Barcode of Life (GBOL). - ECBOL Newsletter 5: 4-5.

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Documents:

pietsch-germany_launches-2012.pdf

Stüben, P. E., Astrin, J. J. (2011): Aeoniacalles tabladoensis sp.n. and Aeoniacalles aeonii bodegensis (Stüben 2000) resyn. from the Canary Islands (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). - Weevil News 68: 1-5.

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Links:

http://www.curci.de/weevilnews/no/68/WN68.pdf

Stüben, P. E., Torres, J. L., Astrin, J. J. (2011): Kyklioacalles alcornocalensis sp.n. from Spain (Cádiz) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). - Weevil News 65: 1-5.

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Links:

http://www.curci.de/weevilnews/no/65/WN65.pdf

2010

Huber, B. A., Fischer, N., Astrin, J. J. (2010): High level of endemism in Haiti’s last remaining forests: revision of Modisimus (Araneae: Pholcidae) on Hispaniola, using morphology and molecules. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 244-299.

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Links:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00559.x

Raupach, M. J., Astrin, J. J., Hannig, K., Peters, M. K., Stoeckle, M. Y., Wägele, J. W. (2010): Molecular species identification of Central European ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) using nuclear rDNA expansion segments and DNA barcodes. - Frontiers in Zoology 7: 26.

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Links:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-7-26

Stüben, P. E. & Astrin, J. J. (2010). Molecular phylogeny of the weevil genus Kyklioacalles Stüben, with descriptions of a new subgenus Glaberacalles and two new species (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). - Zootaxa 2662: 28-52.

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Stüben, P. E., Astrin, J. J. (2010): Molecular phylogeny in endemic weevils: revision of the genera of Macaronesian Cryptorhynchinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 40-87.

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Links:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00609.x/abstract

Stüben, P. E., Behne, L., Floren, A., Günther, H., Klopfstein, S., López, H., Machado, A., Schwarz, M., Wägele, J. W., Wunderlich, J., Astrin, J. J. (2010): Canopy fogging in the Canarian laurel forest of Tenerife and La Gomera. - Weevil News 51: 1-21.

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Links:

http://www.curci.de/weevilnews/no/51/WN51.pdf

2009

Astrin, J. J. (2009): Managing molecular taxonomic data. - Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft 249: 1-62.

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Links:

http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?id=29629

Astrin, J. J. (2009): Molecular phylogeny of the TreeClimbers. - In: Stüben, P. E., Fabian, K., Astrin, J. J. (eds.). TreeClimbers: Dendroacalles, Silvacalles and Lauriacalles of the Canary Islands. - CURCULIO Institute (Mönchengladbach). pp. 38-40.

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Astrin, J. J., Stüben, P. E. (2009): Molecular phylogeny in 'nano-weevils': description of a new subgenus Nanoacalles and two new species of Calacalles from the Macaronesian Islands (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). - Zootaxa 2300: 51-67.

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Links:

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/1/zt02300p067.pdf

Huber, B. A., Astrin, J. J. (2009). Increased sampling blurs morphological and molecular species limits: revision of the Hispaniolan endemic spider genus Tainonia (Araneae : Pholcidae). - Invertebrate Systematics 23: 281-300.

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Links:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS09017

Stüben, P. E., Astrin, J. J. (2009): Neue Erkenntnisse zur Taxonomie, Biologie und Ökologie der Cryptorhynchinae von den Makaronesischen Inseln. 5. Beitrag: Madeira / Porto Santo / Desertas / Selvagens (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). - Snudebiller - Studies on taxonomy, biology and ecology of Curculionoidea 10: 48-86.

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Stüben, P. E., Fabian, K., Astrin, J. J. (2009): TreeClimbers: Dendroacalles, Silvacalles and Lauriacalles of the Canary Islands. - CURCULIO Institute (Mönchengladbach). 41pp.

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2008

Astrin, J. J., Stüben, P. E. (2008): Phylogeny in cryptic weevils: molecules, morphology and new genera of western Palaearctic Cryptorhynchinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). - Invertebrate Systematics 22: 503-522.

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Links:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS07057

Stüben, P. E., Astrin, J. J. (2008): Echinodera bulbosa Stüben & Astrin. - In: Stüben, P. E. (ed.): Key to the species of the genus Echinodera of the Westpalaeartic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). - Snudebiller - Studies on taxonomy, biology and ecology of Curculionoidea 9: 80-112.

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