Vasilita Vasilita

Cristina Vasilita

Cristina Vasilita

Current positions
  • Scientist
Previous positions
  • Project Coordinator German Barcode of Life III: Dark Taxa, Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Education
  • MSc Molecular Genetics „Alexandru Ioan Cuza University“ in Iasi, Romania
  • BSc Biochemistry „Alexandru Ioan Cuza University“ in Iasi, Romania
Field of research
  • Integrative taxonomy and systematics
  • Biodiversity
  • Molecular Genetics
Prizes/Fellowships
  • UEFISCDI - Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development & Innovation Funding Award for Scientific Excellence - 2024
  • Erasmus+ internship mobility “Methods of integrative taxonomy exemplified by hyperdiverse insect groups” – 2020-2021
  • International Society of Hymenopterists Online Symposium Student Competition - 1st prize - 2020
Completed projects - Publications
  • Vasilita, C., Feng, V., Hansen, A. K., Hartop, E., Srivathsan, A., Struijk, R., & Meier, R. (2024). Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species‐level sorting of ecological samples. Molecular ecology resources, 24(3), e13922.
  • Rehberger, S., Vogel, J., Müller, B., Vasilita, C., Krogmann, L., Schmidt, S., & Peters, R. S. (2024). The obligate fig-pollinator family Agaonidae in Germany (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 71(1), 177-183.
  • Moser, M., Ulmer, J. M., Van de Kamp, T., Vasilița, C., Renninger, M., Mikó, I., & Krogmann, L. (2023). Surprising morphological diversity in ceraphronid wasps revealed by a distinctive new species of Aphanogmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea). European journal of taxonomy, 864, 146-166.
  • Pirvu, E., & Vasilita, C. (2023). Wasps going north? Triteleia peyerimhoffi (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) in Germany. Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, 6(2), 127-132.
  • Vasilita, C., Moser, M., & Krogmann, L. (2022). Mission possible: an optimised protocol for the unbarcodable Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera). Biodiversity Data Journal, 10.
  • Vasiliţa, C., Popovici, O. A., Talamas, E., Johnson, N., Masner, L., Tortorici, F., & Fusu, L. (2021). Molecular analysis reveals Latonius planus Kononova to be a derived species of Trissolcus Ashmead. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 87, 267-289.
  • Vasilita, C., & Popovici, O. A. (2020). The first case of reduced wings in Trissolcus Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea). NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 16(1), 99-101..