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Monday, September 9th

Satellite Symposia

Predator-prey interactions:
From behavioral tactics to morphological adaptations

Subject group Morphology


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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Lecture hall HS B2

 

Chitinous structures in ecdysozoan species
Subject group Physiology


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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Lecture hall HS B1

 

Museomics
The use of big data in natural history collections


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State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Museum am Löwentor
Lecture hall

 

 


Tuesday, September 10th

Satellite Symposia

Adaptation to global environmental change:
Phenotypic plasticity and trait variability in individuals, species and communities

Subject group Ecology


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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Lecture hall HS B1

 

Integrative Taxonomy
A Multi-Source Approach to Study Biodiversity

Subject group Systematics, Biogeography and Diversity


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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Lecture hall HS B2

 

Lunch breaks are self-organized.

You are welcome to eat in the Mensa at the Campus Hohenheim. It is open from 11 am till 2 pm. Please note, that you can pay via EC-card only at the designated cash desks only. Paying cash ist not accepted.

Besides that, you can find several cafes for coffee and snacks close-by.

DZG Board Meetings

Subject Group Speaker Meeting

 

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2

 

DZG Board Meeting

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö1

 

 

Common Meeting of the Subject Groups and the DZG Board

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö1

 

Opening

PD Dr. Sven Bradler
DZG President

Prof. Dr. Johannes Steidle
Local organizer, KomBioTa Board

Prof. Dr. Caroline Ruiner
University of Hohenheim, Vice President for Digital Transformation and Sustainability

OPENING LECTURE 
PD Dr. Alexander Kupfer
State Natural History Museum Stuttgart, KomBioTa Member
200+ Jahre Zoologie in Stuttgart / A review of 200+ years of Zoology in Stuttgart

University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Audimax
Connecting Scientists & Poster hanging (Ice Breaker)University of Hohenheim
Mensa
 

Wednesday, September 11th

Plenary Lectures

Prof. Dr. Oleg Simakov
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Evolutionary topology of animal genomes: irreversible processes and novelty in macroevolution


Research Website


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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Audimax

Chair:
Steffen Lemke
University of Hohenheim
Germany

Walter Salzburger
Universität Basel, Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Departement Umweltwissenschaften
Switzerland

The nature of adaptive radiation in the cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika


More Information
Research Website  |  Research Gate


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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Audimax

Chair:
Martin Hasselmann
University of Hohenheim
Germany

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University of Hohenheim
Mensa

 

Invited Subject Group Talks
11.30 am

Bettina Schnell
Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar, Bonn
Germany

Neuronal control of flight turns in Drosophila

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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Lecture hall HS B1
12.00 am

Felix Moll
University of Tübingen, Animal Physiology
Germany

Songbird brain circuits for skilled vocal and non-vocal behaviors

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11.30 am

Matthias Pechmann
University of Cologne, Cologne Biocenter, Institute of Zoology
Germany

How to "organize" a spider embryo. Insights into early spider embryogenesis and beyond

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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B
2
12.00 am

Patrick Steinmetz
University of Bergen
Norway

Taller or smaller: How feeding controls body plasticity in a sea anemone

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11.30 am

Jenna Moore
Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Germany

How the fairy tube-worm got its dance, and other evolutionary tales of form and function in marine annelids

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University of Hohenheim
BIO building
Lecture hall HS Ö1
12.00 am

Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB)
Museum Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn
Germany

Diversity of the germline-restricted chromosome in passerines birds

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11.30 am

Sabine Nooten
University of Würzburg, Biocenter
Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
Germany

The role of environmental features in shaping insect traits

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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2
12.00 am

Samuel Vieira Boff
Ulm University
Germany

The influence of environmental stressors and associated landscapes on diet diversity, body traits, and reproduction in wild bees

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Lunch breaks are self-organized.

You are welcome to eat in the Mensa at the Campus Hohenheim. It is open from 11 am till 2 pm. Please note, that you can pay via EC-card only at the designated cash desks only. Paying cash ist not accepted.

Besides that, you can find several cafes for coffee and snacks close-by.

Subject Group Talks (02.00 – 4.00 pm)
02.00 pm

01

Soumi Dutta*
Pigment-dispersing factor neuropeptides act as multifunctional hormones and modulators in tardigrades
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B1
02.15 pm

02

Alexander Klimovich
Molecular interplay of conserved and novel genes shapes the neurogenesis of Hydra
02.30 pm

03

Kerstin Feistel
Cranial neural tube closure and embryonic head formation require differential regulation of tissue tension
02.45 pm

04

Natascha Turetzek (Zhang)
The making of a pest - Sense organ diversification on the female Drosophila ovipositor
03.00 pm

05

Steffen Lemke
Elevated temperature fatally disrupts nuclear divisions in the early Drosophila embryo
03.15 pm

06

Denise Klinkenbuß*
From Hormones to Armor: Ecdysteroidogenesis-related Halloween Genes in the Development of the Spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum
03.30 pm

07

Kristen Panfilio
Differentiation dynamics for extraembryonic epithelial cell types
03.45 pm

08

Autumn Pomreinke
Relative timing of hemocyte and extraembryonic tissue dynamics after wounding in the red flour beetle
02.00 pm

09

Richard Merrill
Looking for love: Genomics of visual mating preference evolution in Heliconius butterflies
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B2
02.15 pm

10

Shane Wright
Habitat-associated visual system adaptations in Heliconius butterflies
02.30 pm

11

Alexander Blanke
Evolutionary dynamics of wing shape in dragonflies and damselflies
02.45 pm

12

Eli Amson
The early evolution of moles (Mammalia, Talpidae): a humerus story
03.00 pm

13

Joost Woltering 
Pleiotropic roles of Alx genes and the repeated origin of anterior fin spines
03.15 pm

14

Guanliang Meng*
Evolutionary Flexibility and Diversification of Daddy-long-leg Spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae)
03.30 pm

15

Carolin Sommer-Trembo
The genetic basis of exploratory behavior and its role in diversification in African cichlid fishes
03.45 pm

16

Marco Mazzoni*
The genetics of phenotypic differentiation: Lessons from East African mountain honey bees
02.00 pm

17

Daniela Winkler
Past, present, and future of wear analyses of feeding structures in insecta, sauropsida and mammalia
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö1
02.15 pm

18

Maria Herranz
The eye of the (mud) dragon
02.30 pm

19

Jan Wölfer
Internal long bone structure of mouse-like rodents (Muroidea) in light of scaling and locomotor behavior
02.45 pm

21

Belal Talukder*
Olfaction with legs – spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection
03.00 pm

20

Carsten H.G. Müller
 
03.15 pm

22

Una Steinleitner*
How small morphological peculiarities raise big questions: the unique seminal receptacle structure of a Madagascan freshwater crab of the genus Hydrothelphusa (Decapoda, Brachyura, Deckeniidae)
03.30 pm

23

Anne Urban*
Elastic or stiff? New insights on the ultrastructure and material properties of the vagina of the Zuiderzee crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould, 1841) [Panopeidae, Brachyura]
03.45 pm

24

Christoph Bruns*
Dynamic Loading in Insect Exoskeletons: Structural Adaptations and Fatigue Damage
02.00 pm

25

Wencke Krings
The influence of tooth morphology on the feeding efficiency of paludomid gastropods
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2
02.15 pm

26

Stefanie Erhardt*
Body mass loss as an early warning signal in the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus)?
02.30 pm

27

Antonia Mayr
Effects of the neonicotinoid Acetamiprid on the social bee Lasioglossum malachurum
02.45 pm

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Magdalena Meyer
Lessons learned from the Old and New World: Exploring the interplay between biodiversity and zoonotic diseases in wildlife
03.00 pm

29

Jan Buellesbach
The comparatively simple genetic basis of sexual attractiveness in parasitic wasps
03.15 pm

30

Andreas Fischer
Aging virgin females of the false widow spider (Steatoda grossa) engage in dishonest pheromone signaling
03.30 pm

31

Eric Grubmüller*
Guardians of the grave: Microbial management in burying beetles and its implications for carrion preservation and rival avoidance
03.45 pm

32

Elisabeth Riedel*
Larval Drosophila melanogaster development and expression of life history traits in a symbiont-by-environment defined niche space
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University of Hohenheim
Mensa

 

Subject Group Talks (04.30 – 5.00 pm)
04.30 pm

33

Markéta Kaucká
Cell lineages in development and evolution of the face
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B1
04.45 pm

34

Andrea P Murillo Rincon
Cell lineages and developmental trajectories of the embryonic olfactory epithelium
04.30 pm

35

Athena Syarifa*
Does learned bird song drive reproductive isolation in the willow tit?
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B2
04.45 pm

36

Ulrich Knief
Prezygotic reproductive isolation and phenotypic variation across the willow tit song contact zone in southern Germany

 

04.30 pm

37

Peter Rühr*
Multifaceted Analysis of Arthropod Vision
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö1
04.45 pm

38

Torben Göpel
Morphology, Development and Function of the heart in Daphnia revealed by light-sheet fluorescence microscopy
04.30 pm

39

Eva Ehrnsten
Combining empirical data with individual and population-level modeling to predict the effects of environmental change on the key benthic bivalve Macoma balthica
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2
04.45 pm

40

Igor Iatsenko
The endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii increases Drosophila melanogaster resistance to pathogens by enhancing iron-sequestration and melanization
Scientific Award Ceremony

Official awarding of the

  • Werner-Rathmayer Prize
  • Scientific Award of the DZG: Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medaille
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax
Public Talk

Sylvia Cremer
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Teamwork in der Natur: Wie bleiben Insektenkolonien gesund?

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Universität Hohenheim
BIO Gebäude
Audimax

Chair:
Kristen Traynor
University of Hohenheim
Germany

 

 

 


Thursday, September 12th

Plenary Lectures

Rudolf Meier
Natural History Museum Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany

Using high-throughput species discovery with robots and Nanopore sequencing to overcome taxon biases in biodiversity science


More Information
Research Website


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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax

Chair:
Lars Krogmann
Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Germany

Anne-Claire Fabre
Museum of Natural History Bern, Switzerland

Development as a driver or a brake of morphological diversity?


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Research Gate


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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax

Chair:
Alexander Kupfer
Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Germany

Please take a coffee and have some snacks!

University of Hohenheim
Mensa

 

Invited Subject Group Talks
11.30 am

Vienna Kowallik
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Germany

Short time, big impact – host-microbiome interactions in the Anthropocene (stories from honey bees and bark beetles)

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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B1
12.00 am

Panagiotis Theodorou
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Germany

Evolution in the Anthropocene: Bees and Urbanisation

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11.30 am

Liliana d'Alba
Naturalis Biodiversity Center | NCB
Netherlands

Egg Morphology at the Nanoscale

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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B2
12.00 am

Brendon E. Boudinot
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Germany

History, Novelty, and Function: Cases from Beetles and Wasps 

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11.30 am

Borbala Foris
Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien
Austria

Social relationships in farmed animals and its impact on welfare

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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö1
12.00 am

Liran Samuni
German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research
Germany

Evaluating the Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation and Conflict through the lens of Pan

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11.30 am

Nicolas Rohner
University of Münster
Germany

Metabolic Adaptation to Nutrient Limitation in Vertebrates

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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2
12.00 am

Stefan Schuster
University of Bayreuth
Germany

High voltage immunity in strongly electric fish

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Lunch breaks are self-organized.

You are welcome to eat in the Mensa at the Campus Hohenheim. It is open from 11 am till 2 pm. Please note, that you can pay via EC-card only at the designated cash desks only. Paying cash ist not accepted.

Besides that, you can find several cafes for coffee and snacks close-by.

Subject Group Talks (02.00 – 4.00 pm)
02.00 pm

41

Elizaveta Skalon*
How parasitism shapes spiralians: the story of Orthonectida
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B1
02.15 pm

42

Marie Pollmann
Host-dependent variations in Spiroplasma-induced CI expression in the Lariophagus distinguendus species complex
02.30 pm

43

Yifan Pei
Occasional paternal inheritance of the germline-restricted chromosome in songbirds
02.45 pm

44

Julius Rombach*
Evolutionary transcriptomics of sociality in carrion beetles
03.00 pm

45

Maximilian Körner
What makes him care? Unraveling male care behavioral syndromes in a simple family system
03.15 pm

46

Jacqueline Sahm
Scent-sational drama: Larval chemical signals and their effect on maternal behavior
03.30 pm

47

NHamo Mutingwende*
Exploring the condition-dependence of chemical alarm cues in a freshwater gastropod
03.45 pm

48

Daniel Schwarz
Beyond mammals: The surprising complexity of chewing and other oropharyngeal processing mechanisms
02.00 pm

49

Iulia Barutia*
Life with long appendages: functional, kinetic and morphological adaptations in house centipedes
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B2
02.15 pm

50

Thies H. Büscher
 
02.30 pm

51

Julian Thomas*
Unravelling structural and mechanical properties of attachment pads in the stick insect Medauroidea extradentata
02.45 pm

52

Jeanne Wilbrandt

03.00 pm

53

Ana Zippel
Diversity of mandibles of beetle larvae
03.15 pm

54

Isabelle Maiditsch
Shedding X-ray light on the sound-induced motion patterns of hearing structures in fish, focusing on the saccular otolith in three catfish species
03.30 pm

55

Colin Hassenbach*
Morphology and Foraging Behaviour in Ants: A Model for Future Functional Trait Studies
03.45 pm

56

Georg Brenneis
Developmental gene expression patterns illuminate the evolutionary origin of the proboscis in sea spiders (Chelicerata, Pycnogonida)
02.00 pm

57

Anna Torgasheva
Keep or lose: Inheritance and elimination of songbird germline-restricted chromosome
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö1
02.15 pm

58

Sarah Bank
Expanding the phasmatodean tree of life: new insights from targeted enrichment in stick and leaf insects
02.30 pm

59

Svetlana Gruetzke*
Crabs on Crete: How apparent taxonomic contradictions led to new paleobiogeographical insights in the Aegean region
02.45 pm

60

Matteo Putignano*
Small worms, big surprises: Uncovering Hidden Diversity within the genus Amphiglena (Sabellidae: Annelida)
03.00 pm

61

Ekin Tilic
Dusting Off the Phylogeny of Feather Dusters
03.15 pm

62

Lea von Berg*
InsectMow - Development and Evaluation of insect- and spider-friendly mowing techniques
03.30 pm

63

Benjamin Naumann
Foetal adaptations to matrotrophic viviparity in the Nimba toad revealed by grating-base phase contrast
03.45 pm

64

Maximilian Stüwe*
A Burden to be a fish? - Riedl’s Burden tested using Anatomical Networks and heterochrony analyses of the actinopterygian cranium
02.00 pm

65

Janka Plate*
Costly Courtship: Condition Dependence of a Multimodal Courtship Signal in a Parasitoid Wasp
University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2
02.15 pm

66

Paul Huber*
Leaving No One Behind – Social Dispersal in a burying beetle
02.30 pm

67

Tobias Prüser*
Social environment effects the substantial individual variation in clock-controlled behaviour of Tribolium castaneum
02.45 pm

68

Susanne Dobler
ABCB transporters and the transport network for sequestered cardenolides
03.00 pm

69

The planned talk was unfortunately cancelled

03.15 pm

70

Jan Phillipp Geißel*
Trends in early larval traits and responses to chronic vs. acute exposure across a latitudinal gradient: the European shore crab Carcinus maenas
03.30 pm

71

Noé Espinosa-Novo
How to succeed in novel habitats? Successful development through alternative pathways
03.45 pm

72

Attila Placido Sachslehner
The evolution of cornified skin appendages was associated with the origin and loss of transglutaminases in vertebrates
Poster Sessions

Posters with odd and even numbers will be pitched.

All poster pitch participants will line up ten minutes before the scheduled time according to the pitch sequence. They have exactly 60 seconds to pitch, after which a bell will be rung to indicate the start of the next pitch. The supporting slides will be projected on the screen.


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BIO Building
Audimax

 

Posters with odd numbers will be presented within this Poster session.


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University of Hohenheim
Mensa
 

 

Posters with even numbers will be presented within this Poster session.


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Mensa
 

 


Friday, September 13th

Plenary Lectures

Philipp Engel
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Specialized gut microbiota-host interactions in social bees


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Engel Lab


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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax

Chair:
Christian Rabeling
University of Hohenheim
Germany

 

Lena Wilfert
University of Ulm, Germany

Bees, bugs and pollination: How global change can affect population health and disease ecology?


More Information
Research Website


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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax

Chair:
Johannes Steidle
University of Hohenheim
Germany

 

Subject Group Meetings

Neurobiology

 

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B1

 

Developmental Biology

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B
2

 

Systematic, Biogeography Diversity

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö
1

 

Ecology

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2

 

 

Evolutionary Biology

 

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B1

 

Morphology

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS B
2

 

Behavioral Biology

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö
1

 

Physiology

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Lecture hall HS Ö2

 

 

Round Table Discussion

Gemeinsam mit der Philosophin und Initiatorin Amrei Bahr werden wir den Hintergrund der #IchBinHanna Initiative und gegenwärtige Situation Rund um das WissZeitVG besprechen und Lösungsvorschläge und Reformansätze diskutieren.


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University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax
Please take a coffee and have some snacks!

University of Hohenheim
Mensa

 

Multidisciplinary Session (03.00 - 05.00 pm)
03.00 pm

73

Max S. Farnworth
Distinct selection regimes shaping the evolution of integrative centres in the brains of Heliconiini butterflies
NeurobiologyUniversity of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax
03.15 pm

74

Nico Posnien
Natural variation in apoptosis control underlies intraspecific eye size differences in Drosophila melanogaster
Developmental Biology
03.30 pm

75

Alexander Kupfer
Evolutionary implications of “lactation” in a non-mammalian vertebrate 
Systematic, Biogeography & Diversity
03.45 pm

28

Joachim Ruther
Sublethal effects of insecticides on sexual communication and host finding in parasitoid wasps

Ecology
04.00 pm

77

Nora Schulz
The impact of niche construction on the adaptation to bacterial pathogens in flour beetles
Evolutionary Biology
04.15 pm

78

Benjamin Wipfler
Evolution of the hexapod tracheal system
Morphology
04.30 pm

79

Patrick Schultheiss
Fine-scale navigation: searching ants are guided by the visual environment

Behavioural Biology

04.45 pm

80

Christina Böhringer
Analysis of the DUOX pathway in Tribolium castaneum
Physiology
Closing

DZG General Meeting and Closing

University of Hohenheim
BIO Building
Audimax

 

Closing Event with Awarding Ceremony of the Student Awards

State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
Museum Rosenstein

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