Essy Harnelly
PhD Student - Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
Büsgen Institute
Georg-August University of Göttingen
Büsgenweg 2,
D-37077 Göttingen, Germany

Personal Data and Career Path
Born In Banda Aceh Indonesia on 9 January 1975.
1998 Bachelor Study at Mathematics and Natural Science faculty of Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh- Indonesia
2003 Master of science at Biology department ,Bogor Agriculture Institute
2000 – current Lecturer at Biology Department in Mathematics and Natural Science faculty of Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh- Indonesia.
Since 2009 PhD Student at Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
Büsgen Institute Georg-August-University Göttingen

Research of Interest
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Plant Physiology
- Climate changes and the effect to plant growth
- Plant Barcoding

Projekt
“Development of Molecular Taxonomic Identification Key of Dipterocarpaceae Family”
The requirement of taxonomists to apply their knowledge and to provide identifications tools of specimens should become higher nowadays because many species especially plants will lose before they are identified. The lack of taxonomist as well as the difficulties to access literature sometimes becomes a constraint to easily identify species through traditional way. However, the availability of molecular data nowadays will be a promising challenge to develop different diagnostic ways for classification and identification purposes. In a molecular systematic analysis, the arrangement of hierarchy is based on homology of DNA sequence from closely related species. Generally, comparison of species among lower or higher taxonomy level by molecular systematic data require particular homologus region of DNA sequence to be compared. Classifying plant species using molecular taxonomic data would refer the DNA sequence themselves serve as a taxonomic reference system which nowadays known as DNA-based taxonomy.
Identification using molecular data is somehow a new concept which is developed in line with the overwhelming of molecular data. To identify species, people need an identification device for taxonomic identification key and this tool consisting of contrasting statement used to narrow down the identity of a taxon. In another words taxonomic identification key related to succession of question where the answer should be found in the specimen that has been being identified..
My work is aim to develop a molecular taxonomic identification key for Dipterocarpaceae family. This identification key hopefully can help Dipterocarpaceae researchers to do immediate investigation easily with accurate and proper marker. The sequence data retrieved from data bank such as National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Nucleotide Sequence Database from European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The software will be used to align the sequences in this research is Bioedit version 5.0.6. Bioedit is a sequence alignment editor made by Tom Hall from Ibis Biosciences Carlsbad USA.
In order to reach the goal of this project I conduct some steps namely: First, Preparing for metadata of Dipterocarpaceae family research, where most of infomation about taxonomy rank, author, year, type of marker used in Dipterocarpaceae research have been being collected from both from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Second, marker and genus selection. Third, sequence alignment. Fourth, finding SNP and Indels. Fifth, construct the identification key.
Currently, I am finishing my first step with preparing for metadata table and based on this metadata table I can go to second step for marker and genus selection.