My name is Kevin - I'm a PostDoc at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and Guest Researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History of the University of Florida. I previously worked and studied at the Georg August University of Göttingen, Technical University of Ilmenau, and Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. My research interests cover phylogenomics, morphometrics, integrative taxonomy, and statistical modeling, 🌱 with a particular focus on polyploidy, hybridization, and asexuality in plants. 🔭 Recently, I've been diving into pipeline programming and deep learning approaches.
I'm always happy to collaborate! 📫 Send me an email at either kevin.karbstein at uni-jena.de or k.karbstein at ufl.edu.
Some of my recent projects:
- GenomeXtract: Automatically download, filter, and assemble genomes (or genes) from NCBI. The Plant Journal
- Phylogenomic-Structure-Tools: Custom scripts for phylogenetic network and SNiPloid analyses in taxonomically complex groups (TCGs). New Phytologist
- LazyModeler: LazyModeler is a statistical package for the programming language R that allows for easy performance of regression modeling. Journal of Open Source Software
- Variable-Saturation-Tool: Rarefaction-like analyses to calculate saturation of biological variables. Ecology and Evolution
- and many more