Dear Colleague,

We have now looked at the registrations and abstract submissions to “1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology”. There are very many interesting abstracts, but we nevertheless have the feeling that our announcements may not have reached the whole group of potential participants.
 
We have therefore decided to move the deadline for early registration and abstract submission until 1 May to give more people a chance to participate in our congress.

Please look at our home page  www.ICIM-1.dk  We hope that you will find the program so attractive that you want to participate and to let us know about your fascinating research.

We would also like to have as many participants as possible when we try to found “Society for Invertebrate Morphology” which should hopefully arrange congresses like this one every three years in the future.

   Hope to see you in Copenhagen in August.

   Claus Nielsen (congress host)

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AND TIMETABLE

The congress will consist of the following sections:
1.Four plenary lectures
2.Six invited symposia
3.Contributed papers
4.Poster displays on all days, with  special viewing sessions

Plenary lectures

Rick Harrison (Sylva, NC, USA):
The Golden Age of Morphology and Introduction to  “International  Society for Invertebrate Morphology”

Gerhard Scholtz (Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany):
Embryology and homology

Peter Holland (Univ. Oxford, UK):
Genomes and development

Mark Martindale (Univ. Hawaii, HI, USA):  
The developmental basis for metazoan body plan evolution

Program: http://www.icim-1.dk/programme.pdf