Milichiidae online

Professional Experience

08/2006-present 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. 2010: Carnidae of the Lake Kerkini region in Greece. The new Diptera Site, http://diptera.myspecies.info/content/carnidae-lake-kerkini-region-greece, accessed on 19 January 2010.

Brake, I. 2010: Milichiidae of the Lake Kerkini region in Greece. Milichiidae online, http://milichiidae.info/content/milichiidae-lake-kerkini-region-greece, accessed on 19 January 2010.

Brake, I. and Papp, L, 2009: A peculiar new species of Madiza (Diptera: Milichiidae) from Tanzania. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 55: 227–234.

Brake, I. 2009: Revision of Milichiella Giglio-Tos (Diptera, Milichiidae). Zootaxa 2188: 1-166.

Wild, A. L. & Brake, I. 2009. Field observations on Milichia patrizii ant-mugging flies (Diptera: Milichiidae: Milichiinae) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50 (1): 205-212. 

Brake, I. 2009: The type material of Milichiidae and Carnidae (Diptera, Schizophora) in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B, 110: 67-76.

Brake, I., & Bächli, G. 2008. Drosophilidae (Diptera). In: World Catalogue of Insects 9: 1-412.

Brake, I. 2007: Madiza nitens (Melander, 1913), new combination (Diptera, Milichiidae). Proc. ent. Soc. Wash. 109: 798-800.

Brake, I. & Mathis, W. 2007: Revision of the genus Australimyza Harrison (Diptera: Australimyzidae). Syst. Ent. 32: 252-275.

Brake, I. 2006: Diverse Milichiella Giglio-Tos (Diptera: Milichiidae) in Miocene Dominican amber. Ins. Syst. Evol. 37: 17-26.

Brake, I. 2006: Carnidae online. http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/carnid/ca-home.html (now at http://diptera.myspecies.info/carnidae/content/introduction-carnidae)

Brake, I. 2004: Borneomyia, a new genus and two new species of Milichiidae (Diptera, Schizophora). Zootaxa 627: 1-8.

Brake, I. 2004: Milichiidae online. http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/milichid/mi-home.html (now at http://www.milichiidae.info)

Brake, I. & K.-H. Lampe 2004: ZEFOD - Zentralregister biologischer Forschungssammlungen in Deutschland. Ergebnisse des Teilprojektes über zoologische Sammlungen an Museen und Universitäten. Mitt. Dtsch. Ges. allg. angew. Ent. 14: 469-472.

Brake, I. & A. Freidberg 2003: Synonymization of Litometopa Sabrosky with Desmometopa Loew, revision of the new subgenus Litometopa, and descriptions of six new species (Diptera: Milichiidae). Proc. ent. Soc. Wash. 105: 265-282.

Brake, I. 2000: Phylogenetic systematics of the Milichiidae (Diptera, Schizo­phora). Ent. Scand., Suppl. 57: 1-120.

Brake, I. 2000: Milichiidae. In: Die historische Dipteren-Sammlung Carl Friedrich Ketel. Revision einer zwischen 1884 und 1903 angelegten Sammlung von Zweiflüglern (Diptera) aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Eds.: J. Ziegler & F. Menzel. Nova Suppl. Ent. 14: 160.

Brake, I. 2000: Carnidae. In: Die historische Dipteren-Sammlung Carl Friedrich Ketel. Revision einer zwischen 1884 und 1903 angelegten Sammlung von Zweiflüglern (Diptera) aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Eds.: J. Ziegler & F. Menzel. Nova Suppl. Ent. 14: 161.

Brake, I. 1999: Prosaetomilichia de Meijere: a junior subjective synonym of Milichia Meigen, with a phylogenetic review of the M. myrmecophila species-group (Diptera, Milichiidae). Tijdsch. Ent. 142: 31-36.

Brake, I. 1999: Carnidae. In: Checkliste der Dipteren Deutschlands. Eds.: H. Schumann, R. Bährmann & A. Stark. Studia dipt., Suppl. 2 (1999): 138.

Brake, I. 1999: Milichiidae. In: Checkliste der Dipteren Deutschlands. Eds.: H. Schumann, R. Bährmann & A. Stark. Studia dipt., Suppl. 2 (1999): 161.

Brake, I. 1997: Ecological studies on Carnidae (Diptera) on the bird island Mellum. Studia dipt. 4: 201-210.

Beuk, P.L.Th. & I. Brake 1996: Milichiidae. In: Brand-stof. Een inventarisatie van de entomofauna van het natuurreservaat ‘De Brand’ in 1990. Eds.: J.W.A. van Zuijlen, T.M.J. Peeters, P.S. van Wielink, A.P.W. van Eck & E.H.M. Bouvy. Tilburg: Insektenwerkgroep KNNV-afdeling Tilburg: 60-61.

Brake, I. 1996: Carnidae. In: Brand-stof. Een inventarisatie van de entomofauna van het natuurreservaat ‘De Brand’ in 1990. Eds.: J.W.A. van Zuijlen, T.M.J. Peeters, P.S. van Wielink, A.P.W. van Eck & E.H.M. Bouvy. Tilburg: Insektenwerkgroep KNNV-afdeling Tilburg: 42.

Brake, I.: World catalog of Carnidae (Diptera, Schizophora). Myia 12, in press.

Brake, I. & Thompson, F. C.: Friedrich Hendel, 1874-1936. Myia 12, in press.

Email: i.brake@nhm.ac.uk