Michaela Brehm (1959) graduated as biological technician with a specialisation in ecology and environmental control at the 'Rheinische Akademie' in Cologne (Germany) in 1982. From 1982 until 1983 she worked at the 'Institute for Plantphysiology' at the RWTH in Aachen (Germany). She was responsible for the phytopathological fungi- and bacteria-collection and did electron-microscopically work. Her next position was from 1983 until 1991 at the 'Institute for Nematology and Vertebrate Research' at the BBA in Muenster (Germany). The first three years she did field- and laboratory-studies in a project about the behaviour and the control of voles in fruitcultures. From 1986 until 1991 she changed to studies on non-target effects of pesticides on vertebrate animals with special consideration on birds. In 1992 she started her employment at the Department of Food Web Studies at the NIOO-KNAW Centre for Limnology. Within this group she does all kinds of molecular biological work, especially genetical and morphological studies on Daphnia and algae.
- Papakostas, S., Michaloudi, E., Proios, K., Brehm, M., Verhage, L., Rota, J., Peña, C., Stamou, G., Pritchard, V. L., Fontaneto, D., & Declerck, S. A. J. (2016). Integrative Taxonomy Recognizes Evolutionary Units Despite Widespread Mitonuclear Discordance: Evidence from a Rotifer Cryptic Species Complex. Systematic Biology, 65(3), 508-524. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw016
- Dionisio Pires, L. M., Sarpe, D., Brehm, M., & Ibelings, B. W. (2011). Potential synergistic effects of microcystins and bacterial lipopolysaccharides on life history traits of Daphnia galeata raised on low and high food levels. Aquatic Toxicology, 104(3-4), 230-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.05.001
- Van Geest, G. J., Sachse, R., Brehm, M., Van Donk, E., & Hessen, D. O. (2010). Maximizing growth rate at low temperatures: RNA:DNA allocation strategies and life history traits of Arctic and temperate Daphnia. Polar Biology, 33(9), 1255-1262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-010-0814-z
- Van Geest, G. J., Hessen, D. O., Spierenburg, P., Dahl-Hansen, G. A. P., Christensen, G., Brehm, M., Loonen, M. J. J. E., Faerovig, P. J., & Van Donk, E. (2007). Goose-mediated nutrient enrichment and planktonic grazer control in arctic freshwater ponds. Oecologia, 153(3), 653-662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-007-0770-7
- Pires, L. M. D., Ibelings, B. W., Brehm, M., & Van Donk, E. (2005). Comparing grazing on lake seston by Dreissena and Daphnia: lessons for biomanipulation. Microbial Ecology, 50(2), 242-252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-004-0147-6
- Ringelberg, J., van Gool, E., & Brehm, M. (2004). Density and depth variations of Daphnia multilocus genotypes during a summer period in Lake Maarsseveen. Aquatic Ecology, 38(4), 525-535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-004-5667-5
- Billiones, R., Brehm, G. M., Klee, J., & Schwenk, K. (2004). Genetic Identification of Hyalodaphnia Species and Interspecific Hybrids. Hydrobiologia, 526(1), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:HYDR.0000041615.65087.06
- De Bruin, A., Ibelings, B. W., Rijkeboer, M., Brehm, M., & Van Donk, E. (2004). Genetic variation in Asterionella formosa (Bacillariophyceae) is it linked to frequent epidemics of host-specific parasitic fungi? Journal of Phycology, 40(5), 823-830. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.04006.x
- Ibelings, B. W., De Bruin, A., Kagami, M., Rijkeboer, M., Brehm, M., & Van Donk, E. (2004). Host parasite interactions between freshwater phytoplankton and chytrid fungi (Chytridiomycota). Journal of Phycology, 40(3), 437-453. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.03117.x
- Schwenk, K., Sand, A., Boersma, M., Brehm, M., Mader, E., Offerhaus, D., & Spaak, P. (1998). Genetic markers: genealogies and biogeographic patterns in the cladocera. Aquatic Ecology, 32, 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009939901198
