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Oliver Macek

Collection manager
Manager DNA & tissue collection, Collection Assistant (3. Zoo. Abt., Myriapoda)
Oliver Maceks ORCID record:
oliver.macek@nhm.at
Phone: + 43 1 52177-389

ABOL – Austrian Barcode of Life- coordination project

E-Infrastructure-Management
financed by Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft

Education

  • 2012-2020 Master of Zoology, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria; Master thesis: „Integrative taxonomy: optimized DNA-Barcoding-protocol improves species identification in Central European pill millipedes (Glomerida)“
  • 2008-2012 Bachelor of Biology, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria. Field of Study: Evolutionary Biology & Zoology

Professional History

  • Since 01/2024 Manager of the DNA & Tissue Collection, Molecular Systematics, Natural History Museum Vienna.
  • Since 01/2021 assistent 3rd Zoological department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna. Myriapod collection-interaction, databasing, micro-and macroscopic-photographing of type-material
  • 07/2021-12/2021 Project Staff, molecular systematics, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna. DNA & Tissue collection- Workflow establishment and integration of first big sample sets in the course of the new collection developments
  • 03/2020-12/2020  Project Staff, 3rd Zoological department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna. Myriapod collection-interaction, databasing, micro-and macroscopic-photographing of type-material – project BIG4
  • 10/2018-01/2020 Society of friends of the NHM Vienna, secretary position- coordination and communication services.
  • 08/2018-12/2023 - Project Staff, Natural History Museum Vienna. E-Infrastructure-Management, coordination of the ABOL-database and collaboration with national and international partners concerning the project relevant data
  • 01/2018– 07/2018 Project Staff, paleontology department, Natural History Museum Vienna. handling with museums-material and fresh specimen for DNA-analyses, editing and aligning sequences, administrative contribution, insight into scientific work process by participating in work on the "Phylogeny and evolution of edible sea urchins (Echinoidea: Camarodonta)"
  • 06/2016– 09/2018 Project Staff, 3rd zoology department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna. micro- and macroscopic-photographing of type-material (Myriapoda) and collection-interaction by participating in work on the "NHM Digitalization Project"
  • 09/2014– 12/2017 Project Staff, Molecular systematics, Natural History Museum Vienna. administrative contribution, photographing, database work, collecting specimen, editing and aligning sequences by participating in work on the "ABOL Mollusca Project"
  • 08/2013 – 09/2014 Project Staff, Molecular systematics, Natural History Museum Vienna. Cloning techniques, editing and aligning sequences, administrative contribution, insight into scientific work process by participating in work on the “Phylogeographic analysis of selected Alpine land snails” Project
  • 04/2013 – 08/2013 Lab Assistant, Molecular systematics, Natural History Museum Vienna. Cloning techniques, editing and aligning sequences, insight into scientific work process by participating in work on different projects

Professional Memberships

  • CIM - International Society of Myriapodology
  • NOBIS - Network of Biological Systematics
  • ABOL – Austrian barcode of life

Original articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals


SITTENTHALER, M., FISCHER, I., CHOVANEC, A., KOBLMÜLLER, S., MACEK, O., SATTMANN, H., SZUCSICH N., ZANGL, L., HARING, E. (2023): DNA barcoding of exuviae for species identification of Central European damselflies and dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata). J Insect Conserv 27, 451–453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00476-w

AHNELT, H., MACEK, O., ROBITZCH, V. (2023): A new species of Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia) with a specialized caudal-fin complex. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 313-323. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e97515

SONNLEITNER, M., SCHODER, S., MACEK, O., LEEB, C., BRÄUCHLER, C., HARING, E., DÖTTERL, S., ECKELT, A., FAUSTER, R., GLATZHOFER, E., GRAF, W., GROS, P., HEIMBURG, H., HEISS, E., HINTERSTOISSER, W., KIRCHWEGER, S., KOBLMÜLLER, S., KOMPOSCH, C., LINK, A., RABL, D., RUPP, T., SCHLAGER, M., STREINZER, M., STRUTZBERG, H., TIMAEUS, L., WAGNER, H.C., WIESMAIR, B., ZIMMERMANN, D. & SZUCSICH, N.U. (2022): Beitrag der ABOL-BioBlitze zur österreichischen Biodiversitäts-Erfassung: DNA-Barcodes aus 2019 und 2020. – Acta ZooBot Austria, 158: 81-95
 
ANTIĆ, D., ŠEVIĆ, M., MACEK, O., & AKKARI, N. (2021). Review of Trachysphaera Heller, 1858 (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae) in Serbia, with taxonomic notes on the genus. Zootaxa, 5047(3), 273-299.

SZUCSICH, N. U., BARTEL, D., BLANKE, A., BÖHM, A., DONATH, A., FUKUI, M., ... & MEUSEMANN, K. (2020): Four myriapod relatives–but who are sisters? No end to debates on relationships among the four major myriapod subgroups. BMC evolutionary biology, 20(1), 1-15

BAMBERGER, S., DUDA, M., TRIBSCH, A., HARING, E., SATTMANN, H., MACEK, O., AFFENZELLER, M. & KRUCKENHAUSER, L. (2020): Genome‐wide nuclear data confirm two species in the Alpine endemic land snail Noricella oreinos sl (Gastropoda, Hygromiidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.

DUDA, M., SCHINDELAR, J., MACEK, O., ESCHNER, A. & KRUCKENHAUSER, L. (2017): First record of Trochulus clandestinus (Hartmann, 1821) in Austria (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Hygromiidae). – Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 16: 37–43.

KRUCKENHAUSER, L., DUDA, M., SCHINDELAR, J., MACEK, O. & ESCHNER, A. (2016): ABOL Pilot-project Molluscs.

 
Books, Book sections 


KRUCKENHAUSER, L., DUDA, M., SCHINDELAR, J., MACEK, O., REIER, S. & ESCHNER, A. (2019): DNA-Barcoding österreichischer Mollusken – Ein Projekt der Initiative „Austrian Barcode of Life“. – In: Aescht, E. (ed.): Mollusca (Weichtiere) – Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte, Forschung und Sammlungen aus Österreich [Molluscs – Contributions to Cultural history, Research and Collections from Austria]. — Denisia 42. – pp. 511–515,.


Conference proceedings

 
DUDA, M., HARING, E., BULATOVIC, A., HILLE, A., KRUCKENHAUSER, L., MACEK, O., MARKOVIC, J., PINSKER, D., PINSKER, W., REIER, S., SEFC, K., SLAPNIK, R., SITTENTHALER, M., SONNLEITNER, M.,

VALENTINCIC, J. & SATTMANN, H. (2018): The snail summiteers - Gastropod faunas of some exposed alpine locations in the Gesäuse National Park. – In: HARING, E., REIER, S. & SATTMANN, H. (eds): Arianta 6. – pp. 41–46, Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien).

DUDA, M., HARING, E., SATTMANN, H., MACEK, O., SCHINDELAR, J., SCHNEDL, S., ESCHNER, A., FRIEBE, G.J. & KRUCKENHAUSER, L. (2018): Malacological excursion to Vorarlberg (Austria) in the course of the Austrian Barcode of Life Project. – In: HARING, E., REIER, S. & SATTMANN, H. (eds): Arianta 6. – pp. 47–52, Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien).

HARING, E., PINSKER, W., DUDA, M., MASON, K., ASCHBERGER, M., BAUMGARTNER, G., BISENBERGER, A., BULATOVIC, A., DE MATTIA, W., ESCHNER, A., FEHER, Z., GIOKAS, S., HARL, J., HILLE, A., KIRCHNER, S., KRUCKENHAUSER, L., KYSELA, P., MACEK, O., MARKOVIC, J., PINSKER, D., REIER, S., RICHLING, I., SCHILEYKO, A., SCHINDELAR, J., SLAPNIK, R., SONNLEITNER, M., VALENTINCIC, J. & SATTMANN, H. (2018): Snails on the rocks. – In: HARING, E., REIER, S. & SATTMANN, H. (eds): Arianta 6. – pp. 31–40, Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien).

HARING, E., MACEK, O. & SATTMANN, H. (eds): Arianta 5 - Report on the Workshop Alpine Land Snails 2016. – pp. 32–33, Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien).
 

Congress contributions: Talks


MACEK, O., BARTEL, D., SZUCSICH, N.U., MEUSEMANN K. & PASS, G. (2017): Large Sequences for Tiny Myriapods, Big Data- Analyses Including All Living Myriapoda Classes. – 17th International Congress of Myriapodology (17ICM), Krabi, Thailand (Oral presentation)

MACEK, O., BARTEL, D., SZUCSICH, N.U. & PASS, G. (2014): Cocktails and pills: A COI primer cocktail for pill millipedes. – 16th International Congress of Myriapodology (16ICM), Olomouc, Czech Republic (Oral presentation).
 
MACEK, O., BODNER, M., BARTEL, D., SZUCSICH, N.U., RASPOTNIG, G. & PASS, G. (2014): Uncoiling the diversity of Austrian pill millipedes (Glomerida) using an integrative taxonomic approach. – NOBIS Austria 8, Munich, Germany (Oral presentation).
 
MACEK, O., KRUCKENHAUSER, L. & DUDA, M. (2014): Step across the border – do the two subspecies of T. oreinos hybridize? – Workshop Alpine Land Snails 2014, Johnsbach, Austria (Oral presentation).

Central Research Laboratories

Ackerl Florian
Project researcher
Bertelli Daniele
project researcher "TETTRIs"
Chen Rui Qiang
Project researcher
De Mattia Willy
Project researcher
Duda Michael
Project researcher
Fial Nathalie
Project researcher
Fischer Iris
Laboratory manager
Haring Elisabeth
Head of department
Heinzl Janine
Project researcher
Kapun Martin
Staff scientist - Bioinformatics
Kargl Victoria
ABOL-coordination team
Kirchner Sandra
Staff scientist, Laboratory manager
Kruckenhauser Luise
Head of the DNA Laboratory / Curator of the DNA- and tissue collection / Staff scientist
Löwenstein Augustina
Project researcher
Prost Stefan
Associate scientist
Sittenthaler Marcia
Associated scientist
Sonnleitner Michaela
ABOL-coordination team
Szucsich Nikolaus
ABOL-coordinator
Wanka Alexandra Julia
Laboratory manager
Wegner Wencke
Operator for microanalysis
Winkler Viola
Operator microCT and 3D lab

3. zoology

Akkari Nesrine
Curator of the collection Myriapoda / staff scientist
Barta Anna-Chiara
Project researcher
Coelho David
Associated scientist
Dworschak Peter C.
Associated scientist / formerly curator of the collection Crustacea
Eschner Anita
curator of the collection Mollusca / staff scientist
Feiler Gloria
Assistant for the 3rd Zoology
Frade Pedro
curator of the collection Evertebrata Varia
Gallmetzer Ivo
staff scientist
Greilhuber Matthäus
Associated scientist
Gruber Jürgen
Associated scientist / formerly curator of the collection Arachnoidea
Hörweg Christoph
Head of the 3. Zoological Department / curator of the collection Arachnoidea / staff scientist
Marchioro Giulia
Associated scientist
Mason Katharina
staff scientist
Pruckner Christian
Associated scientist
Sattmann Helmut
Associated scientist / formerly head of department and curator of the collection Evertebrata varia
Schiller Edmund
collection assistant in the collections Arachnoidea & Crustacea
Schnedl Sara Maria
collection assistant in the collection Mollusca, currently on maternity leave
Schwentner Martin
curator of the collection Crustacea / staff scientist
Seiter Michael
Associated scientist
Stagl Verena
Associated scientist / formerly curator of the collection Myriapoda
Stevenne Chloe
Project researcher
Szeiler Stefan
collection manager
Wöss Emmy
Associated scientist
  
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