| Behavioral Biology |
| Title |
Speaker |
| Sensory ecology of insect-eating mammals |
Björn Siemers, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen |
| Cognitive ecology of marine mammal orientation |
Björn Mauck, University of Southern Denmark |
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| Evolutionary Biology |
| Title |
Speaker |
| The secret lives of dwarf spiders |
Gabriele Uhl, Universität Bonn |
| Evolution of Cooperation: Termites, an alternative route to Eusociality |
Judith Korb, Universität Regensburg |
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| Developmental Biology |
| Title |
Speaker |
| Axis elongation in Tribolium embryogenesis: how the growth zone signals its way |
Reinhard Schröder (Tübingen) |
| How old genes make new senses: development and evolution of vertebrate cranial placodes |
Gerhard Schlosser (Bremen) |
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| Neurobiology |
| Title |
Speaker |
| Fire and heat detection with specialized infrared receptors in pyrophilous beetles |
Helmut Schmitz, Universität Bonn |
| Neuromediators in the developing olfactory system of insects |
Joachim Schachtner, Philipps-Universität Marburg |
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Ecology
Chair: Katrin Boehning-Gaesse |
| Title |
Speaker |
| Unravel the black box - fatty acids as biochemical markers in soil food webs |
Liliane Rueß, TU Darmstadt, Institut für Zoologie |
| The function and design of signals in plant-animal communication |
Martin Schaefer, Universität Freiburg, Evolutionary Ecology |
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| Morphology |
| Title |
Speaker |
| Eco Profiling of large mammal communities and the reconstruction of hominid habitats |
Christine Hertler, Universität Frankfurt |
| Morphological basis and evolutionary consequences of force-velocity trade-offs in the cranial system of darwin's finches. |
Anthony Herrel, Dept. Biology University of Antwerp |
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| Zoological Systematics |
| Title |
Speaker |
| Is the mammalian tree now resolved? Lessons from genome analyses. |
Axel Janke, Lund University |
| Progress and pitfalls in the practice of species delimitation. |
Thomas von Rintelen, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität Berlin |
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| Physiology |
| Title |
Speaker |
| Their disease or mine? How reliable are animal models to study physiology and pathophysiology of human diseases: Ca2+-regulation, excitability and signalling cascades in skeletal muscle, neurons and blood cells for selected example diseases |
Oliver Friedrich, Universität Heidelberg |
| Insect physiology - from an ecological viewpoint |
Matthias Lorenz, Uni Bayreuth |
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