Dr. Konstantina Koutroumpa

Research Group Asterales

Postdoctoral researcher (Mattfeld-Quadbeck Research Curatorship)

phone

+49 30 838 70043

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+49 30 841

k.koutroumpa@bo.berlin

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Freie Universität Berlin

Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8

14195

Berlin

Deutschland

Curriculum vitae

2006-2011 Bachelor in Biology, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece. Thesis title: Contribution to the coastal flora of Voidokoilia cove and Yalova lagoon (Prefecture of Messinia, Peloponnese)
2011-2014 Master in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. Thesis title: Genetic diversity of the hybrid Origanum x intercedens Rech. in Crete
2014-2020 PhD in Plant Sciences, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Thesis title: Evolutionary and taxonomic studies on Limonium (Plumbaginaceae)
Since 2020 Postdoctoral researcher at the BGBM, Freie Universität Berlin

Research interests

Plant Evolution
Molecular Systematics
Mediterranean Biogeography
Plant Taxonomy

Research projects

Integrative taxonomy of Centaurea (Asteraceae, Cardueae) focusing on the flora of Greece
Integrative taxonomy and biodiversity data management

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Publications

Papers in peer reviewed journals (published and in press)

Zografidis A., Koutroumpa K., Liveri E. & Dimopoulos P. 2023: Centaurea dolopica (Asteraceae, Cardueae), a new species of section Acrocentron from Greece. – Phytotaxa 584: 173–185.
Koutroumpa K., Warren B. H., Theodoridis S., Coiro M., Romeiras M. M., Jiménez A. & Conti E. 2021: Geo-climatic changes and apomixis as major drivers of diversification in the Mediterranean sea lavenders (Limonium Mill.). – Front. Plant Sci. 11: 612258.
Keller B., Ganz R., Mora‐Carrera E., Nowak M. D., Theodoridis S., Koutroumpa K., & Conti E. 2021: Asymmetries of reproductive isolation are reflected in directionalities of hybridization: Integrative evidence on the complexity of species boundaries. – New Phytol. 229: 1795–1809
Flowers J. M., Hazzouri K. M., Gros-Balthazard M., Mo Z., Koutroumpa K., Perrakis A., Ferrand S., Khierallah H. S. M., Fuller D. Q., Aberlenc F., Fournaraki C. & Purugganan M. D. 2019: Cross-species hybridization and the origin of North African date palms. – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116: 1651–1658.
Koutroumpa K., Theodoridis S., Warren B. H., Jiménez A., Celep F., Doğan M., Romeiras M. M., Santos‐Guerra A., Fernández‐Palacios J. M., Caujapé‐Castells J., Moura M., de Sequeira M. M. & Conti E. 2018: An expanded molecular phylogeny of Plumbaginaceae, with emphasis on Limonium (sea lavenders): Taxonomic implications and biogeographic considerations. – Ecol. Evol. 8: 12397–12424.
Laina D., Oikonomou I., Koutroumpa K., Bariotakis M., Kotzabasis K., Ito K., Seymour R.S. & Pirintsos, S. A. 2018: Exogenous induction of thermogenesis in Arum concinnatum by salicylic acid. – Funct. Plant Biol. 45: 1195–1204.
Bariotakis M.*, Koutroumpa K.*, Karousou, R. & Pirintsos, S. A. 2016: Environmental (in)dependence of a hybrid zone: Insights from molecular markers and ecological niche modeling in a hybrid zone of Origanum (Lamiaceae) on the island of Crete. – Ecol. Evol. 6: 8727–8739.

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