Vincent Vedel
Curriculum Vitae:
2005 - 2008:
PhD student supervised by
Prof. Wallace Arthur at the National University of Ireland Galway
2004:
Research assistant in the project Morphological
and genetical description, radiation et evolution of new spiders
species belonging to the Genus
Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae)
2004:
Research assistant for the GBIF project (Global
world Biodiversity Information System) at the Natural History
Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
2003: Research Project (Master Thesis) at the ZMT
laboratory (Centre of Marine Tropical Ecology) of Bremen (Germany)
supervised by Dr. H.Behling into the frame of the MADAM Project about
Brazilian mangroves palaeoecology during the Holocene
(Palynology)
2002: Project in the Marine Research Laboratory at
University of Wales Swansea supervised by Dr P. Dyrynda about the
resistance of
Ficopomatus Enigmatus (polychaeta) to shifting salinity
Research Interests:
I am mainly interested in development and
evolution of arthropods with a special interest in segmentation on
centipedes (Chilopoda).

Publications:
Jaeger P. &
V. Vedel
(2007). Sparassidae of China 4. The genus
Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Yunnan Province, China.
Zootaxa 1623: 1-38
Jaeger P., B. Pathoumthong &
V. Vedel
(2006). First record of the genus
Pseudopoda in Laos with description of new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae).
Senckenbergiana biologica 86 (2): 219-228.
Vedel V., H. Behling, M. Cohen, R. Lara (2006).
Holocene mangrove dynamics and sea-level changes in Taperebal,
northeastern Para state, northern Brazil.
Veget Hist Archaebot 15: 115-123.
Vedel, V. & P. Jaeger (2005). Sparassidae of China 3. First record of the genus
Bhutaniella in China (Araneae: Sparassidae) with descriptions of two new species. Acta Arachnologica 54 (1): 41-43.
Jaeger, P. &
V. Vedel (2005).
Heteropoda dagmarae sp. nov. from Laos - a close relative of
Heteropoda javana (Simon 1880) from Indonesia (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae).
Zootaxa 1044: 17-26.
Jaeger P. &
V. Vedel (2005).
Pseudopoda fissa sp. nov. first record of the genus from Vietnam (Araneae: Sparassidae).
Zootaxa 837:1-5.
Contact:
Dr Vincent Vedel
UMR EcoFoG, INRA
Ecological genetic
Campus agronomique de Kourou
BP 709, 97387 Kourou
Email: vincent.vedel
ecofog.gf
French Guiana