08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome Organizer/Section speaker

09:15 Tracy Kivell (Leipzig) Evolution of hand dexterity in humans and other primates.

10:00 Bernd Bock (Jena) Art & science and the invention of morphology.
10:15 Peter Kappel (Darmstadt) Biting and feeding mechanisms of the Mediterranean medical leech (Hirudo verbana).
10:30 Alexander Stößel (Jena) Studying the origin and deep-time population history of our species (Homo sapiens) in the absence of ancient DNA.

10:45  coffee break

11:15 Josefine Kreuz (Greifswald) Stop and go: Silk flow controlling muscles in the anterior lateral spinneret of spiders (Araneae).
11:30 Eduardo Briceno Aguilar (Jena) Conserved behaviors, divergent webs: Dragline-attachment modules in Anelosimus baeza (Theridiidae) and other web-builders.
11:45 Antonia Dopp (Göttingen) A bloody mystery – morphological investigations shed light on the function of the glycerid venom system (Glyceridae, Annelida).
12:00 Jule Winter (Rostock) Developmental repatterning “types” underlying the evolution of cranial morphological diversity in South American killifishes.

12:00 Group picture & lunch break

14:00 Ann-Katrin Koch (Stralsund) Revealing the overlooked: Pelvic girdle morphology in non-percomorph teleosts.
14:15 Franziska Neitzel (München) Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from a marine protected area and a fouling community in the Northern Adriatic.
14:30 Ines Müller (Wien) Comparative study of SIFamide-like immunoreactive neuronal patterns reveals an ancestral neuron type in the chelicerate brain.
14:45 Xia Ji (Wuhan) Developmental repatterning “types” underlying the evolution of cranial morphological diversity in South American killifishes.
15:00 Mike Kunze (Bonn) Investigating tracheal ultrastructure across Arthropoda: First large-scale comparison of taenidial measurements.

15:15  coffee break

15:45 Francesca Pinton (Jena) Symbiotic algae in an acoel worm: tissue-dependent intracellularity and interaction with host cells.
16:00 Alina Schüller (Bonn) The hidden anatomy of ricefish reproduction: A histological perspective.
16:15 Lisa Marie Riehemann (Greifswald) Step by step: Organogenesis during crab metamorphosis.
16:30 Adrian Richter (Frankfurt) The head anatomy of Smicromyrme (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) and comparisons considering ants and other aculeates.

16:45  coffee break

17:15-19:00  Poster Session

09:00 Yoko Matsumura (Wien) Lessons from functional morphology: how macro- and microevolution have shaped elongated genitalia in leaf beetles.

09:45 John Seifert (Greifswald) Comparative morphology and ultrastructure of the reproductive system in the house centipede Scutigera coleoptrata (Chilopoda).
10:00 Birk Rillich (Rostock) Functional morphology and sexual selection of the copulatory structures in the millipede Acanthopetalum carinatum (Callipodida, Diplopoda).
10:15 Alexander Kupfer (Stuttgart) Evolutionary genital morphology of caecilian amphibians updated.
10:30 Brendon Boudinot (Frankfurt) What is the penis? Establishing the groundplan of male insect genitalia.

10:45 coffee break

11:15 Derya Akdogan (Frankfurt) Unravelling the Haploniscus hydroniscoides Birstein, 1963 species complex through integrated methods of taxonomy and molecular analyses.
11:30 Minsoo Dong (Jena) Evolution and functional morphology of the ant waist: Biomechanical principles underlying its architecture.
11:45 Eva M. Schulenberg (Bochum) Flow field analysis reveals hydrodynamic differences between ecological morphs of Daphnia.
12:00 Hsuan Hung (München) The clavicle as a key to digging in moles (Talpidae):  A comparative analysis of shoulder morphology and microanatomy in extant and extinct taxa.

12:15 lunch break

14:00 Ben Warren (Keele) Micromechanical mysteries of the most sensitive mechanoreceptor.

14:45 coffee break

15:15 Chunpeng Xu (Jena) Fossil morphology illuminates coevolution of Insects and vertebrates in the Mesozoic: examples from katydids and giant cicadas.
15:30 Henja Wehmann  (Jena) Looking behind — in vivo investigations on structural motions inside the locust ear.
15:45 Eleftherios Dimitriou (Jena) From land to water and back again: Neuroanatomical adaptations of the olfactory system in Hemiptera.
16:00 Lorenz Guschker (Rostock) The evolution of retinotectal development in Anurans with different reproductive modes.

16:15 coffee break

16:45 Margarita Yavorskaya (Tübingen) Interactions with ants and possible functions of the foveal system of ant-like litter beetles (Pselaphinae, Staphylinidae).
17:00 Julian Bibermair (Wien) Glimpses on the evolution of phylactolaemate bryozoans.
17:15 Gudrun Schwarze (Wien) From larvae to worm-like adult: Morphogenesis in a vermetid gastropod.
17:30 Nicholas Joris Fleck (München) Hiding behind a giant – Untangling the gemsnakes of the Liophidium torquatum complex from Madagascar.
17:45 Daniel Tröger (Jena) From cabinets to collectomics: Discovering females and larvae of Strepsiptera in a historical collection.

18:30 social evening (Papiermühle)

09:30 Paul Kalke (Götingen) Convergent evolution of sensory palps in Scalibregmatidae (Annelida).

10:00 Chuchu Li (Kiel) Dynamic attachment during locomotion in semi-aquatic firefly larvae (Pygoluciola qingyu).
10:15 Alexandre Casadei Ferreira (Greifswald) Valvilli architecture and its role in venom pumping.
10:30 Wencke Krings (Hamburg) Morphological and biomechanical perspectives on radular diversity.
10:45 Richard Sulser (Bern) Sped up shape: Measuring phenotypic evolution of threespine stickleback in an ongoing natural experiment.

11:00 coffee break

11:30 Tatiana Lebedeva (Jena) Morphology and embryonic development of the muscle system in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi.
11:45 Cristian Klunk (Darmstadt) Cuticle composition and material properties of mandibles reflect ecological demands on trap-jaw ants.
12:00 Carsten H.G. Müller (Greifswald) Chemosensing everywhere: about the sensory equipment of locomotory appendages in the house centipede Scutigera coleoptrata (Chilopoda, Notostigmophora).
12:15 Thies Büscher (Kiel) Show me your belly – mechanically protected metasomal attachment pads in male Afroheriades bees (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) enable contamination free mating contact.

12:30 Awards, DZG announcements & closing

01 Lasse Brunsen (Göttingen) Cooperative minds in the abyss: reproductive adaptation and social coordination in deep-sea Spionidae (Annelida).

02 Marcelo Christian (Jena) Impact of body size and wing morphology on the sound frequency of calling songs in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.

03 Jörn von Döhren (Bonn) Diversity and development of the prototroch in Trochozoa.

04 Maximilian Gerhold (Tübingen) Strong modifications of abdominal sclerites in Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) as an adaptation to association with ants.

05 Lisa Göttler (Rostock) Comparative gait analyses in two differently sized drosophilid fly species running on slippery and non-slippery substrates.

06 Sophie Greistorfer (Wien) Characterisation of the defence system of Latia neritoides  (Mollusca; Gastropoda; Hygrophila).

07 Marc Hoffmann (Halle) Taxonomic revision of the bee-mimicking robber fly genus Hyperechia Schiner, 1866 (Diptera: Asilidae), including seven new species and four new synonyms.

08 Gloria Lando (Jena) Symbiosis establishment between the acoel Convolutriloba macropyga and the green algae Tetraselmis sp.

09 Cathrin Pfaff (Wien) The ear region of dormice: Part I. Septal compass of the middle ear cavity in extinct and extant glirids (Gliridae, Mammalia).

10 Morgan Proust (Stuttgart) Bone to be wild: A microanatomical study of the long bones in two caudates species.

11 Lukas Rühlke (Bonn) Look, lock, lunch: Vision in robber flies with different hunting strategies.

12 Peter T. Rühr (Bonn) Upward vision: How mayflies split their visual world.

13 Steinbach Janik (Jena) Three-dimensional sonography for imaging of human facial muscles: establishment of a standardized examination protocol.

14 Michael Weingardt (Jena) The detailed head anatomy of the barklouse Loensia (Psocodea: Psocidae).

15 Amaal Yazdi (Frankfurt) Apocrita to Aculeata: Evolutionary Insights from the Genitalia of Trigonalyidae.