Prof. Dr. Majid Moradmand

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSystematics and Morphology (Zoology),Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
Keywordsplant associated organisms, DNA Metabarcoding, Arthropods diversity, biodiversity uniqueness, environmental DNA
Honours and awards

2021: achieving the highest grant in the Faculty of Biological Science and Technology to establish the novel laboratory: Integrated Biodiversity

2019: promotion because of selecting as excellent lecturer at University of Isfahan

Current contact address

CountryIran
CityIsfahan
InstitutionUniversity of Isfahan
InstituteDepartment of Plant and Animal Biology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Henrik KrehenwinkelFachbereich Raum- und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Trier, Trier
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2023

Programme(s)

2022Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2024Manuel Stothut, Lisa Mahla, Lennart Backes, Sven Weber, Amirmohammad Avazzadeh, Majid Moradmand, Henrik Krehenwinkel: Recovering plant-associated arthropod communities by eDNA metabarcoding historical herbarium specimens. In: Current Biology, 2024,
2023Keimasi, M., et al.: Purified Native Protein Extracted from the Venom of Agelena orientalis Attenuates Memory Defects in the Rat Model of Glutamate-Induced Excitotoxicity. In: Protein Journal, 42, 2023,
2023Moradmand, M,, Wesal, M. W., Kulkarni, S.: Taxonomic revision of the troglophile Spariolenus spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) in South and West Asia. In: Zootaxa, 5380, 2023,
2022Griebenow, Z.H., Isaia, M. & Moradmand, M. A remarkable troglomorphic ant, Yavnella laventa sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae), identified as the first known worker of Yavnella Kugler by phylogenomic inference. In: Invertebrate Systematics, 36, 2022,
2022Moradmand, M. and Yousefi, M.: Ecological niche modelling and climate change in two species groups of huntsman spider genus Eusparassus in the Western Palearctic. In: Scientific Reports, 12, 2022,