4th Young Researcher Meeting Morphology – 23.-25.02.2023
University of Göttingen

Organizer:  Rabea Klingberg, Paul Kalke, Marco Niekampf & Conrad Helm (Göttingen)

Thursday, 23.02.2023

15:00 Welcome and opening

15:15 Luke Parry (Oxford) Half a billion-year-old armoured slugs and the origins of lophotrochozoa.

16:15 Ludwik Gasiorowski (Göttingen) Ciliated pits of Stenostomidae (Catenulida, Platyhelminthes) are not part of the ancestral flatworm body part.
16:30 Julian Müller (Bonn) „Brisstleworms“: Ultrastructure of the calcified chaetae of Euphrosine (Amphinomida, Annelida).
16:45 Margret Eckhard (Vienna) Characterizaton of defensive secretions in centipedes.

17:30 Anne Urban (Kiel) New anatomical insights of a 90-years-old invader Rhithropanopeus harrisii.
17:45 Michael Weingardt (Jena) Head anatomy of barklice (Psocodea: „Psocoptera“).
18:00 Thies Büscher (Kiel) Influence of plant surface characteristics on attachment of stick insects (Phasmatodea).

18:30 Tim Lütkemeyer (Göttingen) If it fits I sits? Oviposition site selection and its relation to reproductice morphology of the Clitumninae (Phasmatodea).
18:45 Fabian Bäumler (Kiel) Morphological and functional aspects of the raptorial forelegs in Mantispa styriaca.
19:00 Sebastian Schmelzle (Darmstadt) The Darmstadt Insect Scanner DISC3D and its application in the digitization of insect collections.

19:30 Icebreaker

Friday, 27.02.2023

10:00 Michael Bok (Lund) Seeing the world in a new light: Fan worms travel unique evolutionary paths to photoreception and vision.

11:00 Thomas Schwaha (Vienna) Rediscovering the ctenostome Monobryozoon ambulans Remane, 1936.
11:15 Paul Kalke (Göttingen) Palps across the tree – Comparative investigations of larval palp-like head appendages in Annelida.
11:30 Iulia Barutia (Vienna) Running out of legs: the morphology behind anamorphic appendage development and regeneration in the house centipede.
11:45 Georg Brenneis (Vienna) The Old Men and the Sea – Spider Anuses.
12:00 Benjamin Wipfler (Bonn) From ant mandibles and surgical needle holders.

12:15 Guided Tour ForumWissen

15:15 Olivia Moosdorf (Jena) The head of male Army Ants.
15:30 Wencke Krings (Leipzig) Functional adaptations to distinct feeding modes, reflected by morphology and material composition in the larval mandibles of Trichoptera (Insecta, Neoptera).
15:45 Brian Wehner (Rostock) The 3D-ultrastructure of pharyngeal cell types in Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctneophora) and the evolution of celltpes in Metazoa.

16:15 Beke Lohmann (Göttingen) The repellent glands of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea): Comparison of six species on ultrastructural level.
16:30 Julian Thomas (Kiel) Examination of morphological characteristics of the adhesive secretion in stick insects (Phasmatodea) using cryo-scanning electron microscopy.
16:45 Daniel Tröger (Jena) The morphology of free-living females of Strepsiptera (Insecta).

17:15 Anika Preuss (Kiel) Marine mammal parasites: surface adaptations of seal lice to underwater attachment.
17:30 Alessio Capobianco (Munich) Fossils reveal a marine origin for the freshwater arapaimas and arowanas (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae).

Saturday, 25.02.2023

10:00 Sven Bradler (Göttingen) Morphological homoplasy across the phasmatodean tree of life.

11:00 Simon Züger & Andy Sombke (Vienna) Heavy metals and where to find them – Cuticular components of centipede forcipules.
11:15 Svetlana Grützke (Kiel) Freshwater crabs of Crete: New insights into relationships and biogeography based on morphology and genetics.
11:30 Ann-Kathrin Koch (Stralsund) The normal but special dorsal fin in Mormyridae (Osteoglossomorpha).

12:15 Farewell, awards & panel discussion

Poster

Dennis Böttger (Jena) The moth fauna of the understorey is more diverse in the understorey than in the canopy in a European forest.

Dongik Chang (Göttingen) Microscopic imaging of host-symbionts interaction.

Hans-Christian Schulz (Stralsund) The diversity of the pelvic girdle of Euteleostei.

Sandra Tretter (Münster) The genomic and neural constituents of ant olfaction in the light of social complexity.

Oral presentation awards - sponsored by Springer

 

1. place: Iulia Barutia (Vienna) Running out of legs: the morphology behind anamorphic appendage development and regeneration in the house centipede.

2. place: Anika Preuss (Kiel) Marine mammal parasites: surface adaptations of seal lice to underwater attachment.

3. place: Alessio Capobianco (Munich) Fossils reveal a marine origin for the freshwater arapaimas and arowanas (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae).