Member since: Mai 2018

Students' representative: November 2018 - October 2019

Research interest
Phylogeny, population dynamics and diversity, MALDI-TOF MS, DNA barcoding and metabarcoding

Title of PhD project
Cyathostomin species complex dimensions in the context of geographical background

Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna and Dr. Jürgen Krücken

Krücken J, Diekmann I, Andreotti S, Bredtmann CM, Mbedi S, Sparmann S, Schmidt JS, de Almeida Borges F, de Freitas MG, Sallé G, Hofer H, Matthews JB, Tzelos T, Nielsen MK, Kuzmina TA, von Samson Himmelstjerna G. (2025).
Cytochrome c oxidase I deep amplicon sequencing for metabarcoding of equine strongyle communities: unexpectedly high Strongylus spp. prevalence in treated horses.
Int J Parasitol Oct 4:S0020-7519(25)00182-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2025.09.007.

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Klass LG, Diekmann I, Andreotti S, Mbedi S, Sparmann S, Schenk T, Anderson HP, Bellaw J, Nielsen MK, Krücken J, von Samson-Himmelstjerna G. (2025).
Species diversity and within-host tropism for mixed equine strongyle infections using a cytochrome c oxidase subunit I metabarcoding approach.
Int J Parasitol Oct 8:S0020-7519(25)00185-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2025.09.010.

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Diekmann I, Krücken J, Kuzmina TA, Bredtmann CM, Louro M, Kharchenko VA, Tzelos T, Matthews JB, Madeira de Carvalho LM, von Samson-Himmelstjerna G. (2025).
Comparative phylogenetic and sequence identity analysis of internal transcribed spacer 2 and cytochrome C oxidase subunit I as DNA barcode markers for the most common equine Strongylidae species.
Infect Genet Evol Feb 13:105729. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2025.105729.

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Diekmann I, Blazejak K, Krücken J, Strube C, von Samson-Himmelstjerna G. (2025).
Comparison of morphological and molecular Strongylus spp. identification in equine larval cultures and first report of a patent Strongylus asini infection in a horse.
Equine Vet J 57:522-9. doi: 10.1111/evj.14134.

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Courtot É, Boisseau M, Dhorne-Pollet S, Serreau D, Gesbert A, Reigner F, Basiaga M, Kuzmina T, Lluch J, Annonay G, Kuchly C, Diekmann I, Krücken J, von Samson-Himmelstjerna G, Mach N, Sallé G. (2023).
Comparison of two molecular barcodes for the study of equine strongylid communities with amplicon sequencing.
PeerJ 11:e15124. doi: 10.7717/peerj.15124.

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Louro M, Kuzmina TA, Bredtmann CM, Diekmann I, de Carvalho LMM, von Samson-Himmelstjerna G, Krücken J. (2021).
Genetic variability, cryptic species and phylogenetic relationship of six cyathostomin species based on mitochondrial and nuclear sequences.
Sci Rep 11:8245. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-87500-8.

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Diekmann I, Alnassan AA, Globokar M, Pantchev N, Kurzrock L, Hernandez L, Lopez J, Ruano R, Herrero S, von Samson-Himmelstjerna G, Krücken J. (2020).
Canine Dracunculus Nematode Infection, Toledo, Spain.
Emerg Infect Dis 26:1860-3. doi: 10.3201/eid2608.201661.

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