5th Young Researcher Meeting Morphology – 21.-23.February 2024
Technical University Darmstadt
Organizer: Michael Heethoff & Sebastian Schmelzle
Meeting-Homepage: https://www.econetlab.net/yrmm24
Thursday, 22.02.2024
10:00 Welcome
10:15 Peter Falkingham (Liverpool) – Track morphology as a window on extinct life
11:15 Mildred Johnson (Vienna) – The morphology of boring bryozoans: characters of Immergentia and Spathipora
11:30 Sebastian Decker (Vienna) – Reevaluating morphological characters of the boring bryozoan family Terebriporidae d‘Orbigny, 1847 and its potential classification as ichnotaxon
11:45 Andy Sombke (Vienna) – Diverging venom strategies – Convergent evolution of venom and defensive systems in stone centipedes
12:00 Fernando Villagomez (Darmstadt) – Geometric morphometrics in Camisiidae (Acari: Oribatida) oribatid mites as a method for species delimitation
13:30 Maximilian Stüwe (Rostock) – Morphological changes of the cranial musculoskeletal system during the evolution of new feeding modes in South American Killifishes (Austrolebias)
13:45 Olivia Giesa (Leipzig) – Micro-CT evaluation of the three-dimensional material composition of adhesively bonded CAD/CAM partial crowns
14:00 Christine Kiesmüller (Greifswald) – Long-legged aphidlion-like larva: new findings in 100-million-year old amber illuminate life style and ecology of strange-looking neuropteran larvae
14:45 Wencke Krings (Leipzig) – Wear patterns of radular teeth in Loligo vulgaris (Cephalopoda; Mollusca) are related to their structure and mechanical properties
15:00 Thomas Schwaha (Vienna) – Bryozoan proctology: Tales of the anus
15:15 Kenneth Kuba (Munich) – Detection of anthropogenic particles for a look into flowers and guts
15:30 Thies Büscher (Kiel) – Bird’s Digest: Microstructure and mechanical properties of the phasmid egg shell and their possible role in avian-mediated dispersal
16:00 TUDa student talks
Rieke Böhm (Darmstadt) – Photogrammetrische 3D-Rekonstrukrion einer Tenebrio molitor Entwicklungsreihe
Gary Geisen (Darmstadt) – Lauf-Animation eines photogrammetrischen Tenebrio molitor Modells
Nikolas Buysch (Darmstadt) – Objektkopie eines Mikroarthropoden. Vom SR-μCT Datensatz zum gedrucken Modell
Isabel Rose Benitez-Vegas (Darmstadt) – Vergleich der Mandibelmorphologie verschiedener Insektenarten
16:30 Poster session
18:30 Social evening
Friday, 23.02.2024
10:15 Simon Poppinga (Darmstadt) – Biomechanics of plant-animal interactions
11:15 Iulia Barutia (Jena) – The man, the myth, the…hearing organ – morphological and mechanical investigations of the Müller`s organ in Schistocerca gregaria
11:30 Jenny Hein (Karlsruhe) – The evolution of coxa-trochanteral joints in beetles
11:45 Cornelia Pichler (Karlsruhe) – The tribology of microstructure and lubricant in beetle joints
12:00 Daniel Tröger (Jena) – Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of Halictophagus (Strepsiptera, Halictophagidae) from Croatia
13:30 Swane Jung (Rostock) – Back from the Egg – What egg case morphology can reveal on reproductive strategies of cockroaches
13:45 Michael Weingardt (Jena) – The first detailed morphological treatment of a Cretaceous psocid and the character evolution in Trogiomorpha
14:45 Joshua Gauweiler (Greifswald) – Success(ion) stories of the Mesozoic – Quantitative skull shape analyses indicate a complex ecological relationship of pterosaurians and early birds
15:45 Awards, society information and closing remarks,
16:15 Photogrammetry session
18:30 Social evening
Poster
Michael Csader et al. (Tübingen) – Structure and function of the musculoskeletal ovipositor system of Leptopilina
heterotoma (Cynipoidea, Figitidae)
Frederike Hilgendorf et al. (Greifswald) – Clones are crayfish too: An approach to compare variability in the olfactory system between isogenic and non-isogenic crayfish
Martin Horstmann et al. (Bochum) – Inducible morphological defences in D. longicephala and its effects on predator-prey interaction
Helene Kortum et al. (Göttingen) – The prothoracic repellent glands of Southeast Asian stick insects (Phasmatodea: Necrosciinae)
Lisa M. Riehemann et al. (Greifswald) – Comparing the development of the olfactory lobe in decapod crustaceans
1. Keynote Contest Winner: Joshua Gauweiler (Greifswald) – Success(ion) stories of the Mesozoic – Quantitative skull shape analyses indicate a complex ecological relationship of pterosaurians and early birds
2. Best poster: Michael Csader et al. (Tübingen) – Structure and function of the musculoskeletal ovipositor system of Leptopilina heterotoma (Cynipoidea, Figitidae)
3. Best talk: Iulia Barutia (Jena) – The man, the myth, the…hearing organ – morphological and mechanical investigations of the Müller`s organ in Schistocerca gregaria.
