Dr. Thomas van de Kamp, Dipl.-Biol.
Honorary associate
E-Mail: thomas.vandekamp@kit.edu
scientific employee at the Institut für Photonenforschung und Synchrotronstrahlung of Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT).
January 2008 to Dezember 2009 scientific trainee at SMNK.
Research focus
- Digital imaging of biological and paleontological samples
- functional morphology of insects
- biomimetics
Projects
- systematics and evolution of the weevil genus Trigonopterus
- Synchrotron-based highthroughput-xray-imaging of arthropods
- NOVA – Network for Online Visualization and Synergistic Analysis of Tomographic Data
Projects
Selected Publications
- van de Kamp T., Schwermann A.H., dos Santos Rolo T., Lösel P.D., Engler T., Etter W., Faragó T., Göttlicher J., Heuveline V., Kopmann A., Mähler B., Mörs T., Odar J., Rust J., Tan Jerome N., Vogelgesang M., Baumbach T., Krogmann L. (2018):
- Parasitoid biology preserved in mineralized fossils. Nature Communications 9
- Onelli O.D., van de Kamp T., Skepper J.N., Powell J., dos Santos Rolo T., Baumbach T., Vignolini S. (2017):
- Development of structural colour in leaf beetles. Scientific Reports 7: 1373
- Schwermann A.H., dos Santos Rolo T., Caterino M.S., Bechly G., Schmied H., Baumbach T., van de Kamp T. (2016):
- Preservation of three-dimensional anatomy in phosphatized fossil arthropods enriches evolutionary inference. eLife 5: e12129
- van de Kamp T., Riedel A., Greven H. (2016):
- Micromorphology of the elytral cuticle of beetles, with an emphasis on weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Arthropod structure & Development 45: 12-22
- van de Kamp T., Cecilia A., dos Santos Rolo T., Vagovič P., Baumbach T., Riedel A. (2015):
- Comparative thorax morphology of death-feigning flightless cryptorhynchine weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) based on 3D reconstructions. Arthropod structure & Development 44: 509-523
- dos Santos Rolo T., Ershov A., van de Kamp T., Baumbach T. (2014):
- In vivo X-ray cine-tomography for tracking morphological dynamics. PNAS 111: 3921-3926
- van de Kamp T., dos Santos Rolo T., Vagovič P., Baumbach T., Riedel A. (2014):
- Three-dimensional reconstructions come to life – interactive 3D PDF animations in functional morphology. PLOS ONE 9: e102355
- Riedel A., dos Santos Rolo T., Cecilia A., van de Kamp T. (2012):
- Sayrevilleinae Legalov, a newly recognised subfamily of fossil weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Attelabidae) and the use of synchrotron microtomography to examine inclusions in amber. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 773-794
- van de Kamp T., Vagovic P., Baumbach T., Riedel A. (2011):
- A biological screw in a beetle´s leg. Science 333: 55
- van de Kamp T., Greven H. (2010):
- On the architecture of beetle elytra. Entomologie heute 22: 191-204