Milichiidae online

Professional Experience

03/2011-present Part time coordinator for the Systema Dipterorum and part time user support manager for Scratchpads, Natural History Museum, London, UK.

08/2006-02/2011 Coordinator of the insect exemplar groups for WP6, Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy, of the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT), Natural History Museum, London, UK.

11/2003-07/2006 Coordinator for the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera, Washington DC, USA.

02/2001-04/2003 Coordinator for the Inventory of Biological Research Collections in Germany (ZEFOD) at Museum Koenig in Bonn, Germany.

Education

1996-2000 Doctorate at the Institute for Zoology of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. W. Sudhaus. Thesis: "The phylogenetic systematics of Milichiidae (Diptera, Schizophora)."

1990-1996 Diploma studies in Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany. Supervisor: Dr. M. v. Tschirnhaus. Thesis: "Ecological studies on Carnidae (Diptera) on the bird island Mellum."

Academic Awards and Honors

2003-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

1997-1999 Ph.D.-grant of the city of Berlin (NaF G), Germany.

since 2006 Member of the Council of the International Congresses of Dipterology

Publications

Brake, I., Duin, D., Van de Velde, I., Smith, V.S. & Rycroft, S.D. 2011. Who learns from whom? Supporting users and developers of a major biodiversity e-infrastructure. In: Smith, V. & Penev, L. (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. ZooKeys 150: 177–192. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2191

Smith, V.S., Rycroft, S.D., Brake, I., Scott, B., Baker, E., Livermore, L., Blagoderov, V., Roberts, D. 2011. Scratchpads 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science. In: Smith, V. & Penev, L. (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. ZooKeys 150: 53–70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2193

Brake, I. & Thompson, F. C. (eds) 2011. Contributions to the Systema Dipterorum. Myia 12, vi + 564 pp.

Brake, I. 2011. World catalog of the family Carnidae (Diptera, Schizophora). Myia 12: 113-169.

Brake, I. & Thompson, F. C. 2011. Friedrich Hendel, 1874-1936. Myia 12: 5-16.

Brake, I. & Thompson, F. C. 2011. Abbreviations used for type holdings. Myia 12: 501-517.

Brake, I. & Thompson, F. C. 2011. Serial abbreviations. Myia 12: 519-564.

Brake, I. 2011: The Carnidae from 'De Kaaistoep', The Netherlands . The new Diptera Site, http://diptera.myspecies.info/content/carnidae-de-kaaistoep-netherlands, accessed on 21 April 2011.

Brake, I. 2011: The Milichiidae from 'De Kaaistoep', The Netherlands . Milichiidae online, http://milichiidae.info/content/milichiidae-de-kaaistoep-netherlands, accessed on 21 April 2011.

Heiduk, A., Brake, I., Tolasch, T., Frank, J., Jürgens, A., Meve, U. & Dötterl, S. 2010. Scent chemistry and pollinator attraction in the deceptive trap flowers of Ceropegia dolichophylla. South African Journal of Botany 76: 762-769.

Smith, V.S, Duin, D., Self, D., Brake, I. & Roberts, D. 2010. Motivating Online Publication of Scholarly Research Through Social Networking Tools. Webcentives: Incentives and Motivation for Web- Based Collaboration . Conference Proceedings paper delivered at COOP2010, The 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems on 18 May, 2010 as part of a workshop titled Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration. Published in Workshop Proceedings of 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems - COOP 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 2010. Volume 7, Issue 10, pp. 329-339.

Kondo, T., Brake, I., Lopez, K. I. & Korytkowski, C. A. 2010. Report on Milichiella lacteipennis (Loew) (Diptera: Milichiidae), attracted to various bugs (Hemiptera: Coreidae & Pentatomidae). Boletin del Museo de Entomologia de la Universidad del Valle 11: 16-20.

Brake, I. & von Tschirnhaus, M. 2010. Stomosis arachnophila sp. n., a new kleptoparasitic species of freeloader flies (Diptera, Milichiidae). ZooKeys 50: 91–96. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.505

Blagoderov, V., Brake, I., Georgiev, T., Penev, L., Roberts, D., Rycroft, S., Scott, B., Agosti, D., Catapano, T., Smith, V. S. 2010. Streamlining taxonomic publication: a working example with Scratchpads and ZooKeys. ZooKeys 50: 17–28. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.539

Penev, L., Agosti, D., Georgiev, T., Catapano, T., Miller, J., Blagoderov, V., Roberts, D., Smith, V. S., Brake, I., Rycroft, S., Scott, B., Johnson, N. F., Morris, R. A., Sautter, G., Chavan, V., Robertson, T., Remsen, D., Stoev, P., Parr, C., Knapp, S., Kress, J., Erwin, T. 2010. Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys 50: 1-16. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.538