Program Overview

German Zoological Society 105th Annual Meeting
Program Overview
September 21 – 24, 2012
University of Konstanz, Germany
Thursday, September 20, 2012
M 629 (150)
14:00 –
22:00
ANN-Symposium
Friday, September 21, 2012
Audimax A 600 (700)
Foyer A5
Foyer A6
M 629 (150)
M 630 (44)
M 631 (24)
Meeting Chairs
Fachgruppen
Meeting DZG
Board
09:00 –
14:00
ANN
Symposium
14:00 –
16:00
16:00 –
18:00
18:30 –
19:00
19:00 –
20:00
Meeting DZG
Board of Advicers
Welcome address
Key Note: Chair - Axel Meyer
Scott Edwards (Harvard University)
Molecular Ecology in the 21st Century: Genomic Foundations of an
Integrative Science
20:00 –
21:00
Poster session with beer
and pretzels (odd numbers)
21:00 –
22:00
Poster session with beer
and pretzels (even numbers)
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Audimax A 600 (700)
A 701 (190)
A 702 (90)
A 703 (130)
8:30 –
9:30
Key Note: Chair - Giovanni Galizia
Christiane Weirauch (University of California-Riverside)
Bee killers and blood suckers – on the evolution of
assassin bugs
8:30 –
9:30
9:30 –
10:30
Key Note: Chair - Giovanni Galizia
Alison Mercer (University of Otago)
Social modulation of learning in honey bees
9:30 –
10:30
A 704 (95)
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 –
11:30
11:30 –
12:00
12:00 –
12:30
Special Guest Lecture: Chair - Giovanni Galizia
Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brooks University)
Evolution of the regulation of cellular morphology
in Drosophila
11:00 –
11:30
Neurobiology 1: Chair - Jacob Engelmann
Boris Chagnaud (München)
Temporal patterning of vocalizations and prevention
of acoustic reafference – a lesson from vocalizing fish
Ecology 1: Chair - Gerlind Lehmann
Kathrin Lampert (Bochum)
Does it have to be sex? Ecological and evolutionary success
of a clonal vertebrate, Poecilia formosa
Physiology 1:Chair - Thorsten Burmester
Miriam Götting (Hamburg)
Stress tolerance in fish and the role of globins
Daphnia Symposium
Chair: Dominik Martin-Creuzburg
Behavioral biology 1: Chair - Lars Lewejohann
Andre Ganswindt (University of Pretoria)
Omnis amans amens – Endocrine correlates of
male reproductive behaviour in terrestrial megaherbivores
11:30 –
12:00
Key Note | 11:00 Dieter Ebert (Basel)
Toward the ecological genomics of Daphnia
Neurobiology 2: Chair - Christoph Kleineidam
Joerg T. Albert (London)
From circadian time keeping to species-specific hearing:
chordotonal contributions to mechanosensory behaviours
in Drosophila
S1 | 12:00 Mathilde Cordellier (Frankfurt)
Tiny European Daphnia, a newcomer in eco- and
paleogenomics
Evolutionary biology 1: Chair - Thomas Schmitt
Anna Lindholm (Zürich)
Selfish genes in house mice
Chairs
Morphology
Chair: Georg Mayer
Physiology
Chair: Wolf-Michael Weber
Daphnia Symposium
Chair: Dominik Martin-Creuzburg
14:00 –
14:15
69 Markus Lambertz (Bonn)
Contributions to an understanding of pulmonary
and associated structures in cryptodiran turtles
107 Annika Herwig (Hamburg)
The role of hypothalamic thyroid hormones in energy
balance
14:15 –
14:30
70 Falk Esser (Aachen)
Characterization of waterextraction from moist soil
by moisture harvesting lizards
108 Ina Herrmann
The role of paxillin in alpha-hemolysin induced reorganisation of focal adhesions in human airway epithelial cells
S3 | 13:45 Justyna Wollinska, Sabine Gießler
(München)
Coevolution between Daphnia and their parasites: a new
method to capture genetic changes in parasite population
14:30 –
14:45
71 Nina Furchheim (Berlin)
Size matters when living in an intertidal washing
machine – the smallest known brachiopod Gwynia
capsula
109 Ulrich Hoeger (Mainz)
Evidence for a common precursor in two Crustacean high
density lipoproteins, the large discoidal lipoprotein and the
beta-glucan binding protein
14:45 –
15:00
72 Ronald Seidel (Berlin)
3D reconstruction of brachiopod shells using noninvasive x-ray computed tomography (µCT)
110 Andreas Ziegler (Ulm)
The effect of saline and organic matrix proteins from
Porcellio scaber sternal deposits on CaCO3 precipitation under near physiological conditions
15:00 –
15:15
73 Jörg U. Hammel (Jena)
A modeling approach to understanding fluid dynamics and flow in leuconoid sponge canal systems
111 Saskia Lieberei (Hamburg)
Identification of carriers for the uptake of plant secondary substances in Longitarsus jacobaeae (Coleoptera,
Chrysomelidae)
15:15 –
15:30
74 Conrad Helm (Leipzig)
The body musculature of polychaetes and allies:
Implications for muscular ground patterns within
Annelida
112 Postertalk
Zoological Systematics
Chair: Sven Bradler
Developmental Biology
Chair: Niko Prpic-Schäper
Daphnia Symposium
Chair: Dominik Martin-Creuzburg
125 Anja Golombeck (Bonn)
Interstitial annelid taxa: addressing their phylogeny
with complete mitochondrial genomes using Next
Generation Sequencing
19 Jennifer Schmidt (Jena)
The regulatory network of FoxN3 during Xenopus laevis
head development
S10 | 16:00 Sarah Oexle (Konstanz)
Sterol metabolic constraints in D. magna
S12 | 16:30 Markus Möst (Zürich)
Assessing the human impact on Daphnia populations in
peri-alpine lakes
S2 | 12:15 Barbara Pietrzak (Rostock)
Evolutionary demography of ontogenesis and senescence
in Daphnia
12:30 – 14:00 lunch break
Neurobiology
Chair: Jacob Engelmann
14:00 –
14:15
87 Adrian Klein (Bonn)
45 Ilka Kureck (Mainz)
Medullary lateral line units of the common rudd, Scardinius Increased sexual investment in a highly inbred ant
erythropthalmus, are sensitive to Kármán vortex streets in
terms of spike rate and spike pattern
14:15 –
14:30
88 Hendrik Herzog (Bonn)
Respiratory noise and lateral line function
46 Michael Weber (Konstanz)
Hierarchies, courtship and paternity: swordtail interactions
in a natural-like setting
14:30 14:45
89 Peter Machnik (Bayreuth)
Functional stability: Archerfish compensate temperature
effects that occur at the level of the Mauthner-cell
47 Alexandra Schrempf (Regensburg)
The consequences of double mating in Cardiocondyla
obscurior
14:45 –
15:00
90 Carlos Mora-Ferrer (Bayreuth)
Full-field motion vision: From photopic to scotopic
conditions
48 Talk canceled
Evolutionary biology
Chair: Sandra Steiger
15:00 –
15:15
91 Silke Künzel (Bielefeld)
Linking behavior and sensory processing: analysis
of distance estimation capability in neurons of the
Mormyrid ELL
49 Dieter Thomas Tietze (Frankfurt)
Evolution of traits in the song of leaf-warblers (Aves:
Phylloscopidae)
15:15 –
15:30
92 Vanessa Kassing (Bielefeld)
Monitoring single cell responses via calcium imaging in
the optic tectum of the adult zebrafish (Danio rerio)
50 Jannis Liedke (Hamburg)
When should cuckolded males care for extra-pair offspring?
S4 | 14:00 Olivia Hesse (München)
The impact of anthropogenetic stressors and simultaneous parasite infection on Daphnia
S5 | 14:15 Nina Schlotz (Konstanz)
A dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid protects Daphnia
against pathogenic threats
S6 | 14:30 Eric von Elert (Köln)
Evidence for inducible tolerance of Daphnia magna to
cyanobacterial protease inhibitors
S7 | 14:45 Anke Schwarzenberger (Köln)
Local adaptation of Daphnia magna to cyanobacterial
protease inhibitors?
S8 | 15:00 Bettina Zeis (Münster)
How Daphnia copes with changing temperature conditions: The role of metabolic enzymes
S9 | 15:15 Marcus Lukas (Potsdam)
Daphnia feels the difference: Stoichiometric regulation at
different food conditions.
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
Chairs
Behavioral Biology
Chair: Lars Lewejohann
Evolutionary biology
Chair: Thomas Hoffmeister
Chairs
16:00 –
16:15
1 Julie Duboscq (Göttingen)
Behavioural trade-offs in macaques: a within-species
perspective
51 Enrico König (Oldenburg)
More than microbes: a new perspective about the evolution
of antimicrobial peptides in the defensive skin secretion of
anuran amphibians
16:00 –
16:15
16:15 –
16:30
2 Christof Neumann (Göttingen)
Stress levels, dominance rank and hierarchy dynamics in
wild male crested macaques (Macaca nigra)
52 Miriam Stock (Klosterneuburg)
Adaptation of a fungal pathogen to individual versus social
immunity in ants
16:15 –
16:30
126 Anne Weigert (Leipzig)
A transcriptomic approach using next generation
sequencing to reconstruct annelid phylogeny
16:30 –
16:45
3 Oliver Schülke (Göttingen)
The evolution of coalitions among male primates –
empirical test of a mathematical model
53 Phillip Gienapp (Wageningen)
Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation:
can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change?
20 Nathalie Feiner (Konstanz)
Molecular phylogenetic, comparative genomic and
expression analyses of Pax10, a novel sister gene of Pax4
and Pax6
16:30 –
16:45
16:45 –
17:00
4 Julia Ostner (Göttingen)
Stable heterosexual friendships in promiscuously mating
wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)
54 Sebastian Klaus (Frankfurt)
Rapid adaptation to cave life: The freshwater crabs of
Bohol, Philippines
127 Torsten Struck (Bonn)
Platyzoa - a monophyletic group or a long-branch
artifact?
21 Peter Lesny (Bonn)
Transcription factors from the parasitic barnacle Sacculina carcini (Crustacea: Rhizocephala) identified by
transcriptomic analyses
17:00 –
17:15
55 Lukasz Mitko (Bochum)
5 Wolfgang Goyman (Seewiesen)
Olfactory specialization in orchid bees and its role in
Parental effort in socially monogamous white-browed
coucals (Centropus superciliosus) and classically polyan- speciation
drous black coucals (C. grillii)
16:45 –
17:00
128 Jörn von Döhren (Bonn)
Phylogeny and evolution of Nemertea
22 Franziska Anni Franke (Leipzig)
Study of segment polarity genes in Onychophora (velvet
worms): Insights into the evolution of segmentation in
Panarthropoda
17:00 –
17:15
129 Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow (Wien)
The smallest solitary deuterostome - a miniaturized
acorn worm (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta) from
the Western Atlantic
23 Reinhard Schröder (Rostock)
FGF signalling organizes extraembryonic membrane
formation and integrity in the red flour beetle Tribolium
castaneum
17:15 –
17:30
130 Thomas Stach (Berlin)
Prospects of cell lineage data in phylogenetic
analyses
24 Eileen Knorr (Gießen)
Post-embryonic functions of HSP90 the model beetle
Tribolium castaneum
6 Hanna Kastein (Hannover)
Discrimination of individuals by vocal communication in
a bat, Megaderma lyra
Key Note | 11:30 Alexander Wacker (Potsdam)
Determining nutritional constraints using Daphnia as a model
12:00 –
12:30
12:30 – 14:00 lunch break
Chairs
17:15 –
17:30
R 513 (170)
56 Alexander Kupfer (Potsdam)
Sperm storage in caecilian amphibians
Konzil
19:00 –
19:30
Welcome and introductory lecture: Axel Meyer and Peter Berthold: Geschichte der Biologie in Konstanz
19:30 –
22:00
Public Key Note: Chair - Giovanni Galizia
Randolf Menzel (Freie Universität Berlin): Wie ein kleines Gehirn aus Erfahrung lernt (Eine Reise in das Gehirn der Honigbiene)
12:30 – 13.45 during the lunch break meetings of the Fachgruppen in rooms M 627 (Behavioral Biology), M 628 (Ecology), M 629 (Neurobiology), M 630 (Developmental Biology)
S11 | 16:15 Piet Spaak (Dübendorf)
Daphnia populations in (ultra) oligotrophic lakes?
S13 | 16:45 Nicole Henning (Frankfurt)
The evolutionary adaptation potential of Daphnia galeata
in time and space
S14 | 17:00 Johanna Griebel (München)
Can a hybrid outcompete its parental species? –
a competition experiment with a ""super clone""
(Daphnia galeata × longispina hybrid)
S15 | 17:15 Christian Laforsch (Bayreuth)
Stealth mechanism or predator confusion? The exact
defensive mechanism of protective helmets in Daphnia
S16 | 17:30 Kathrin Otte (München)
Proteomic analysis of predator-induced phenotypic
plasticity in Daphnia magna
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Audimax A 600 (700)
A 701 (190)
A 702 (90)
A 703 (130)
A 704 (95)
8:30 –
9:30
Key Note: Chair - Axel Meyer
Chris Jiggins (Cambridge University)
A butterfly genome offers insights into
adaption and speciation
8:30 –
9:30
9:30 –
10:30
Special Guest Lecture: Chair - Axel Meyer
Hans Hofmann (University of Texas)
Variations on a Theme: Function
and Evolution of a Vertebrate Social
Decision-Making Network
9:30 –
10:30
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 –
11:30
11:30 –
12:00
Special Guest Lecture:
Chair - Giovanni Galizia
James Poulet (Berlin)
Cortical Processing during Behaviour
Chairs
Evolutionary biology 2:
Chair - Gregor Kölsch
Joe Hoffman (Bielefeld)
Heterozygosity and fitness in seals
Neurobiology
Chair: James Poulet
Climate Change Ecology
Chair: Axel Hochkirch
Morphology
Chair: Steffen Harzsch
12:00 –
12:15
93 Christian Schopf (Hannover)
Hearing in aging grey mouse lemurs
(Microcebus murinus)
31 Holger R. Goerlitz (Bristol/Seewiesen)
Functional Impacts of global warming on
prey detection ability of echolocating bats
75a Paavo Bergmann (Tübingen)
Automictic parthenogenesis in the oribatid mite, Archegozetes longisetosus
12:15 –
12:30
94 Alexander Fischer (Kaiserslautern)
GABA - relevant for hearing cues?
32 Rudy Jonker (Bielefeld)
Climate change and common buzzard
survival: a complex case
75b Temim Deli (Regensburg)
Comparative phylogeography of two
coastal crab species along the African
Mediterranean coast: Carcinus aestuarii
(Carcinidae) versus Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Grapsidae)
Chairs
12:45 – 13.45
Zeiss Lecture:
Emmanuel G. Reynaud
(University College Dublin)
A Light Sheet View on Taxonomy
M 627 (78)
M 629 (150)
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 –
11:30
Behavioural biology 2:
Chair - Antje Engelhardt
Jana Uher (Berlin)
Personality differences in nonhuman
animals: Concepts, approaches, and
methods of measurement
Zoological systematics 1:
Chair - Lars Podsiadlowski
Saskia Brix-Elsig (Hamburg)
Highlights in isopod research – news from
the deep sea
R 513 (170)
12:30 – 14:00 lunch break
Physiology 2: Chair - Ulrich Hoeger
Alexander Tups (Marburg)
The interplay of leptin, insulin and
nutrients in the hypothalamus: A key to
understand the pathophysiology of type
II diabetes?
Symposium: Population genomics and
genomics of adaptations
Key Note | 11:00 Scott Edwards (Harvard)
The phylogeography-phylogenetics continuum in the genomic era
11:30 –
12:00
Invited Speaker | 11:30 Felicity Jones
(Stanford)
The genomics of adaptive divergence and
reproductive isolation in sticklebacks
12:00 –
12:15
Invited Speaker | 12:00 Philline Feulner
(Münster)
Genome-wide structural variations and
adaptation in parapatric lake-stream
populations of the three-spined stickleback
Gasterosteus aculeatus
12:15 –
12:30
S17a | 12:30 Frank Chan (Plön)
Complex interspecific hybridization and
adaptation in an island population of
house mice
12:30 – 14:00 during the lunch break meetings of the Fachgruppen in rooms M 627 (Evolutionary Biology), M 628 (Morphology), M 629 (Physiology), M 630 (Zoological Systematics)
Neurobiology
Chair: Christoph Kleineidam
Chemical Ecology
Chair: Kathrin Lampert
Morphology
Chair: Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow
Chairs
Behavioral Biology
Chair: Christof Neumann
Symposium: Population genomics and
genomics of adaptations
Evolutionary biology
Chair: Alexander Kupfer
Physiology
Chair: Jan-Peter Hildebrandt
14:00 –
14:15
95 Norbert Boedekker (Bielefeld)
Cue integration for navigation in bees,
wasps and humans
33 Hannah Burger (Ulm)
An arthropod deterrent attracts a specialized bee to its host plants
75c Alexander Bär (Leipzig)
Comparative anatomical study reveals
differences in the composition of slime
glands in Onychophora (velvet worms)
14:00 –
14:15
7 Irene Maria van den Heuvel
(Oldenburg)
Land or Lover – Territorial defence and mutual mate guarding in a duetting songbird
57 Adina Renz (Konstanz)
The mosaic evolution of the Dlx4 gene in
the sauropsid lineage: Phylogenetic and
expression analysis
113 Andreas Vicinskas (Gießen)
Epigenetic regulation of metamorphosis
and immunity in insects
14:15 –
14:30
96 Matthias Wittlinger (Ulm)
Odometry during passive transport in the
desert ant Cataglyphis
34 Christian von Hoermann (Ulm)
The attraction of newly emerged Nicrophorus vespilloides females (Coleoptera:
Silphidae) to odour bouquets of large
cadavers (Sus domesticus) in different
stages of decomposition
76 Ivo de Sena Oliveira (Leipzig)
Unexplored morphological character
diversity in Onychophora (velvet worms)
14:15 –
14:30
8 Katja Heubel (Tübingen)
Bad choosiness? Female competition
makes females picky
S17b | 14:00 Christian Sturmbauer
(Graz)
Genomic sequencing of two members of
the eco-morphologically highly diverse
Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Tropheini
S18 | 14:15 Shaohua Fan (Konstanz)
Copy number variation in the adaptive
radiation of African cichlid fish
58 Oscar Brusa (Hannover)
Divergent evolution in the polymorphic
granular poison-dart frog, Oophaga
granulifera: genetics, colouration, advertisement calls and morphology.
114 Christine Fink (Kiel)
Microbial communities in the fruit fly's
intestine – what we can learn about hostmicrobe interactions and the outcome of
disturbing the homeostatic situation
14:30 –
14:45
97 Eva Berg (Köln)
Single perturbations cause sustained changes in searching behavior of stick insects
35 Christin Wurmitzer (Freiburg)
77 Sebastian Schmelzle (Tübingen)
Olfactory preferences in dung beetles (Sca- The ptychoid defensive mechanism in
rabaeoidae: Geotrupidae & Scarabaeidae) Mesoplophoridae (Acari, Oribatida)
14:30 –
14:45
9 Inon Scharf (Mainz)
Characterizing the collective personality
of ant societies
S19 | 14:30 Helen Gunter (Konstanz)
The way you use it is what counts: basis of
phenotypic plasticity in the lower pharyngeal jaw of the cichlid fish, Astatotilapia
alluaudi
59 J. Susanne Hauswaldt (Braunschweig)
Comparison of phylogeographies and
transcriptome data of Rana temporaria
and R. dalmatina, two co-distributed species of Western Palearctic brown frogs
115 Julia Hoffmann (Kiel)
sir2 and foxo – mediating effects of
dietary restriction in Drosophila?
14:45 –
15:00
98 Talk canceled
36 Michael Heethoff (Tübingen)
Chemical Ecology of oribatid mites –
The significance of oil-gland secretions
for predator defense
78 Esther Appel (Kiel)
Resilin in the dragonfly wing veins
14:45 –
15:00
10 Jürgen Trettin (Regensburg)
Experimentally induced queen-queen
aggression in low-skew populations of
a socially polymorphic ant
116 Sebastian Martin (Bonn)
Evolution of the matrixin family of metalloproteinases in arthropods
15:00 –
15:15
99 Carmen R. Smarandache-Wellmann
(Köln)
Network mechanisms of coordination for
distributed neural oscillators
37 Ann-Marie Rottler (Ulm)
Wax scent and its communication function in bumblebee colonies
79 Postertalk
60 Claudia Laurenzano (Regensburg)
South American homogeneity versus
Caribbean heterogeneity: population
genetic structure of the western Atlantic
fiddler crab Uca rapax (Brachyura,
Ocypodidae)
15:00 –
15:15
11 Taina Conrad (Ulm)
The role of vibrational communication
in mason bees
61 Jana Dömel (Bochum)
Phylogeographic structure and genetic diversity in the circumpolar Southern Ocean
sea spider Austropallene cornigera
117 Anne-Kathrin Rohlfing (Potsdam)
Do Worms pee? New insights into the C.
elegans excretory system
15:15 –
15:30
100 Matthias Gruhn (Cologne)
Body Side-specific Control of Motor Activity
during Turning in an Insect
38 Marko Rohlfs (Göttingen)
Insect-fungus interactions – driven by sex
and toxins
80 Ute Eulitz (Dresden)
Coleoptera remains from a neolithic well
7200 years old
15:15 –
15:30
12 Hellena Binz (Mainz)
Antipredator behavior in the wood cricket
Nemobius sylvestris varies among distinct
spider species and their biological traits
62 Danilo Harms (Perth, Australien)
Vicariance and the origins of diversity
in pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)
118 Bostjan Vihar (Aachen)
The subharenal (under sand) respiration
of the Sandfish
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break
S20 | 14:45 Jan Oettler (Regensburg)
Signatures of divergence and selection in
Cardiocondyla obscurior
S21 | 15:15 Andreas Kautt (Konstanz)
Genome-wide patterns of adaptation and
speciation in repeated radiations of Midas
cichlid fish
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
16:00 –
16:15
16:00 –
16:15
Symposium: Population genomics and
genomics of adaptations
16:15 –
16:30
16:15 –
16:30
S22 | 16:00 Manfred Schartl (Würzburg)
The genome of the platyfish, Xiphophorus
maculatus
S23 | 16:15 Julia Jones (Konstanz)
Hybridizaiton and speciation in Xiphophorus
fish: a genome wide approach using RAD
sequencing
S24 | 16:30 Arne Nolte (Plön)
Finding genes that count in a hybrid fish
S25 | 16:45 Tereza Manousaki (Konstanz)
Parsing parallel evolution: ecology and
transcriptomics of hyperthrophic lips in
Midas cichlid fishes
S27 | 17:00 Hans Hofmann (Austin)
Deep homology in gene modules that underlie convergent evolution in mating systems
16:30 –
16:45
16:30 –
16:45
16:45 –
17:00
17:00 –
17:15
17:15 –
17:30
16:45 –
17:00
DZG general meeting
17:00 –
17:15
17:15 –
19:00
Poster session in Foyer A5 and M6
17:15 –
17:30
15:30 – 16:15 poster session (even numbers) | 16:15 – 16:15 poster session (odd numbers)
Harbour Konstanz
19:45 –
22:30
Boattrip MS Konstanz
Award of the “Werner-Rathmayer-Preis” and Posterprizes
17:15 –
19:00
Key Note | 17:15 Chris Jiggins
(Cambridge)
Genome-wide patterns of introgression
between hybridizing Heliconius species
Monday, September 24, 2012
Audimax A 600 (700)
8:30 –
9:30
Key Note: Chair - Axel Meyer
David Reznick (University of California-Riverside)
Experimental Studies of the Interaction between
Ecology and Evolution in a Natural Ecosystem
9:30 –
10:30
Special Guest Lecture: Chair - Giovanni Galizia
Catherine Carr (University of Maryland)
Evolution of sound localization circuits
A 701 (190)
A 702 (90)
A 703 (130)
A 704 (95)
M 627 (78)
M 629 (150)
8:30 –
9:30
9:30 –
10:30
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 –
11:30
11:00 –
11:30
Zoological systematics 1:
Chair - Christoph Bleidorn
Oliver Niehuis (Bonn)
Insect phylogenetics in the era of genomics
Ecology 2: Chair - Ingo Hahn
Stefan Lötters (Trier)
Ecological niches in Amazonian amphibians: linking macroecology to evolution
11:30 –
12:00
11:30 –
12:00
Developmental biology 1: Chair - Monika Hassel
Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Wien)
Shedding Light on Rhythms
12:00 –
12:30
Morphology 1:
Chair - Michael Heethoff
Hendrik Müller (Jena)
Evolution of reproductive strategies and
skeletal development in amphibians
12:00 –
12:30
Developmental biology 2: Chair - Niko Prpic-Schäper
Benjamin Altenhein (Mainz)
Glial cell development in Drosophila: from cell fate specification to function
Morphology 2: Chair - Peter Michalik
Ellen Schulz (Hamburg)
Chewing mechanics in mammals: 3D morphology of enamel wear
12:30 – 14:00 lunch break
Olfaction Symposium
Chair - Giovanni Galizia
S37 | 11:00 Jacob Stierle (Konstanz)
Honeybees use millisecond time-differences in stimulus coherence for odor-background segregation
S38 | 11:15 Sarah Koch (Jena)
Pheromone receptor genes in leaf-cutting
ants (Atta vollenweideri)
S39 | 11:30 Christine Novack (Kassel)
Entering the current discussion on the
vomeronasal organ of lungfish (Dipnoi):
Data from scanning electron microscopy
S40 | 11:45 Sabrina Jordan (Kassel)
The olfactory organs of the frogs
Bombina orientalis (Discoglossidae) and
Xenopus borealis (Pipidae) compared by
lectin histochemistry
S41 | 12:00 Philipp Brand (Bochum)
The evolution of Odorant Receptors
(ORs) in sibling species of orchid bees, as
revealed by RNA-Sequencing
S42 | 12:15 Matthias Schott (Gießen)
Insect antennae-based biosensors for
in-situ measurements
IMPRS Symposium
Chair: Students of the IMPRS of
Organismal Biology
Key Note | 11:30 Hanna Kokko
(Australian National University)
Were all interesting predictions in
sexual selection theory made in the
1970s, and do they hold in 2012?
12:30 – 14:00 lunch break
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Olfaction Symposium
Chair: Giovanni Galizia
Neurobiology
Chair: Joachim Schachtner
Morphology
Chair: Andy Sombke
Chairs
Evolutionary biology
Chair: Phillip Gienapp
14:00 –
14:15
Key Note | 14:00 Andreas Keller
(Rockefeller University)
The combinatorial logic of human olfaction
101 Martin Kollmann (Marburg)
The different stages of the olfactory pathway of the red
flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
81 Martin Fritsch (Rostock)
Insights in the evolution of larval development in Branchiopoda
(Crustacea) using an Event-Pairing approach: First indications
of the evolutionary transformation towards Cladocera
14:00 –
14:15
63 Frederico Henning (Konstanz)
25 Anika Lidke (Marburg)
Genetics of polychromatism in the Midas Estradiol promoted effects on the development of pricichlid
mordial germ cells in the polychaete Platynereis dumerilii
S28 | 14:00 Mark van Kleunen
Friends and enemies of green aliens
102 Christoph Kleineidam (Konstanz)
Processing of simple and complex odor patterns within
the antennal lobe of social insects
82 Julia Huber (Ulm)
Structure, mineral distribution and mechanical properties
of the Pars incisiva cuticle in the mandibles of Porcellio
scaber Latreille, 1804.
14:15 –
14:30
64 Gonzalo Machado Schiaffino
(Konstanz)
Phylogeography and colonization events
of Ugandan crater lake cichlid fish
26 Beate Mittmann (Freiburg)
Embryonic development and staging of the
cobweb spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum C. L.
KOCH, 1841 (syn.: Achaearanea tepidariorum;
Araneomorphae, Theridiidae)
S29 | 14:30 Davide Dominoni
Effects of artificial light at night on
daily cycles of songbirds
14:30 –
14:45
65 Ji Kang (Konstanz)
Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses
of the swordtails and platyfish (genus
Xiphophorus) reveals that Xiphophorus
monticolus is a hybrid species
27 Joris Bressan (Fribourg)
Comparative analysis of the Cardiocondyla
obscurior brain
14:45 –
15:00
66 Eugenia Zarza (Frankfurt a.M.)
Prior information as a tool for biogeographical and paleoclimatic hypothesis
comparison in a Bayesian framework
28 Christina Schulte (München)
A transposon-mediated germline transformation
system for the honeybee Apis mellifera
15:00 –
15:15
67 Martin Plath (Frankfurt a. M.)
Gradient evolution of body coloration
in surface- and cave-dwelling Poecilia
mexicana and the role of phenotypeassortative female mate choice
29 Inga Nissen (Düsseldorf)
Molecular control of sex determination in
honeybees
15:15 –
15:30
68 Anne Weeda (Bremen)
Diploid males – the unknown sex: A
study on mating behaviour and fertility
of diploid Bracon brevicornis males
30 Monika Hassel (Marburg)
MAPK signaling is necessary for the final phase
of bud detachment and correlates with Sprouty
expression
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Zoological Systematics
Chair: Thorsten H. Struck
Physiology
Chair: Andreas Vilcinskas
IMPRS Symposium
Chair: Students of the IMPRS ...
16:00 –
16:15
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119 Thorsten Burmester (Hamburg)
The coelacanth is a "globin fossil": Conservation of
globin genes in Latimeria chalumnae and reconstruction of the evolution of the vertebrate globin family
S33 | 16:00 Jesko Parteke
Partial migration: The ecology and
evolution of alternative phenotypes
16:15 –
16:30
132 Udo Rempe (Kiel)
Refining evolutionary distances by
character weighting
120 Kristin Tietje (Bremerhaven/Oldenburg)
Evidence of multidrug resistance transporter (MDR)
and multidrug resistanceassociated protein (MRP)
in the marine platyhelminth Macrostomum lignano
investigated using fluorescent dyes
S34 | 16:30 Camila P. Villavicencio
Testosterone concentration of male
black redstarts do not increase
during times of social instability
14:15 –
14:30
14:30 –
14:45
103 Marlene Binzer (Marburg)
Neuropeptides in the antennal lobe and the mushroom
body of Tribolium castaneum: direct peptide profiling
and immunohistology
83 Hans Peter Katzmann (Ulm)
Comparative SEM studies of the anterior ventral head
region in maxillopod and branchiopod representatives of
the Euentomostraca (Crustacea, Entomostraca)
104 Ricarda Scheiner (Potsdam)
Biogenic amine receptors, response thresholds and
division of labor in honeybees
84 Sukhum Ruangchai (Ulm)
Local variations of cuticular architecture in the basis joint
head of Porcellio scaber peraeopods
15:00 –
15:15
105 Marc Spehr (Aachen)
Mitochondrial calcium mobilization is a key element in
olfactory signaling
85 Michael Heethoff (Tübingen)
Functional morphology and bite performance of raptorial
chelicerae of camel spiders (Solifugae).
15:15 –
15:30
106 Andreas Thum (Konstanz)
Learning and Memory in Drosophila Larvae
86 Postertalk
14:45 –
15:00
Key Note | 14:45 Leslie Kay
(The University of Chicago)
Strategy and plasticity in early olfactory processing
of the rat olfactory system
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
Chairs
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17:15
S30 | 14:45 Malika Ihle
Does hatching failure breed infidelity?
S31 | 15:00 Henrik Kusche
Mouth asymmetry in scale-eating
cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all
S32 | 15:15 Erica Stuber
Intraspecific variation in sensitivity
towards novel objects: a problem of
sampling bias in ecological studies
Behavioral Biology
Chair: Julie Duboscq
Ecology
Chair: Stefan Lötters
Key Note | 16:00 Heather Eisthen
(Michigan State University)
Tainted Love: Olfactory Detection of Tetrodotoxin In
Rough-Skinned Newts (Taricha granulosa)
13 Dominic Kugel (Hohenheim)
Early memory phases in Nasonia vitripennis
39 Janos Hennicke (Villiers-en-Bois, France)
Foraging strategy and plasticity of the Abbott's Booby: keys
to a unique life history in an extreme environment?
14 Hanneke Poot (Seewiesen)
Song learning and tutor choice in a multi-tutor environment
40 Frauke Krüger (Kiel)
Seasonal and geographical dietary variation in a typical
European trawling bat, Myotis dasycneme Boie, 1825
15 Stefan Leitner (Seewiesen)
Environmental and genetic control of brain and song
structure in the zebra finch"
41 Tamara Pokorny (Bochum)
Long distance dispersal of male orchid bees across the
Yucatán peninsula
16 Ingo Rischawy (Bayreuth)
Archerfish adjust a rapid motor decision to changed
environmental laws
42 Robert Sigl (München)
Plastic responses to food limitation in Acanthaster planci
observed by in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and
subsequent 3D modeling
16:30 16:45
121 Talk canceled
17 Anja Weidenmüller (Konstanz)
Nest temperature homeostasis in a social insect: How
bumblebee colonies (B. terrestris) control the temperature of their brood
43 Ingo Hahn (Münster)
2010 Chilean tsunami: impacts on soil, flora and fauna of
the threatened ecosystem of Robinson Crusoe Island
133 Richard Mally (Dresden)
Testing monophyly of megadiverse Spilomelinae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)
S35 | 16:45 Martin Bulla
Unequal division of incubation in a
High Arctic shorebird
16:45 –
17:00
134 Sven Bradler (Göttingen)
The stick insects of Madagascar: Ancient
lineages or recent adaptive radiation?
122 Gunnar Broehan (Osnabrück)
Functional Analysis of the ATP-binding Cassette (ABC)
Transporter Gene Family of Tribolium castaneum
17:00 –
17:15
135 Claus Fischer (Oldenburg)
Evidence for a mechanism of genetic exchange in an ancient asexual bdelloid rotifer
123 Postertalk
S36 | 17:00 Nathalie Feiner
Molecular phylogenetic, comparative genomic and expression analyses
of Pax10, a novel sister gene of
Pax4 and Pax6
17:15 –
17:30
136 Alireza Keikhosravi (Regensburg)
Cryptic species in European freshwater
crabs revealed by genetic comparison
of populations of Potamon ibericum
(Brachyura, Potamidae)
124 Postertalk
Key Note | 16:45 Tristram Wyatt
(University of Oxford)
Chemical communication in invertebrates and vertebrates: resolving pheromones (species-wide signals)
and signature mixtures (variable cues learned for
identity)
17:15 –
17:30
18 Jakob Krieger (Greifswald)
44 Daniel Lewanzik (Berlin)
Giant Robber Crabs (Birgus latro) monitored from space Artificial light at night affects ecosystem services provided
GPS-based telemetric studies on Christmas Island
by bats
Audimax
19:00 –
22:00
IMPRS Symposium
Chair: Students of the IMPRS ...
Olfaction Symposium
Chair: Giovanni Galizia
16:30 16:45
16:45 –
17:00
Developmental Biology
Chair: Reinhardt Schröder
Award of the Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medal and public talk
Chair - Hermann Wagner | Laudator: Friedrich Barth
Laureate: Horst Bleckmann - Die Welt der Sinne
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
Award | 17:15
IMPRS Best Student Paper Award
Notes
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Gestaltung: Universität Konstanz, WWA-Grafik | Fotos: www.fotolia.de, A.Schmidt, C. Fudickar, E. Schraml, A. Konings
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