Disclaimer     

101. Jahresversammlung
der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft
September 19 - 22, 2008 in Jena, Germany
General Information Meeting Program Meeting Office Travel &
Accomodation		 Interactive
Maps		 Your
Account		 Online Registration

Date and location

Date: September 19 to 22, 2008
Location: Campus, Ernst-Abbe-Platz, Jena, Germany (see interactive maps)

Online programe

See the final online schedule and the list of posters.

Final Meeting Program

Both, the book of abstracts and the conference guide are available for download. All participants receive the printed versions with theire conference material. A compilation of the most important information is available below.

Your personal online conference planning system

For the first time, you may use a personal online conference planning system. Just log into your account and go to "Personal conference planning".  You may compile your personal schedule by browsing or searching the presentations. The system is pretty much self-explanatory.

Key issues and invited speakers

  • Vertebrate Head Development
    • Evolution of morphological patterns in vertebrates viewed from developmental perspectives
      Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan)
    • Comparative aspects of cerebral cortical development
      • Zoltán Molnár (University of Oxford, Great Britain)

  • Experimental Design in the Postgenomic Era
    • The promise of insect genomics
      Cornelis J.P. Grimmelikhuijzen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
    • Hypothalamic Integration of Hormonal Inputs
      Jens Brüning (University of Cologne, Germany)

  • Antarctic Ecosystems
    • Looking Back in Time Through Marine Ecosystem Space: A Predators Perspective on Climate Change in the Western Antarctic Peninsula
      William R. Fraser (Polar Oceans Research Group, Montana, USA)
    • Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Southern Ocean Deep Sea
      Angelika Brandt (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Symposia of the DZG study groups

  • Developmental Biology Symposium
    • Molecular mechanisms of tectal development in vertebrates
      Dorothea Schulte (MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt)
    • Novel genes control species-specific morphological traits in the genus Hydra
      Konstantin Khalturin (Universität Kiel)
  • Evolutionary Biology Symposium
    • Sexual conflict and cooperation in bedbugs
      Klaus Reinhardt (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
    • Biogeographical and evolutionary importance of the European mountain systems
      Thomas Schmitt (Universität Trier)
  • Morphology Symposium
    • Character transformations and their functional significance as key to the evolution of hystricognath Rodentia
      Andrea Mess (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
    • The Functional Morphology of Sponges - New Views on Ancient Animals
      Michael Nickel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
  • Neurobioloy Symposium
    • Neurophylogeny - Retracing early metazoan brain evolution
      Rudolf Loesel (RWTH Aachen)
    • In vivo visualization of odor coding and processing in the Drosophila brain
      Silke Sachse (MPI für Chemische Ökologie, Jena)
  • Ecology Symposium
    • Effects of environmental complexity on species interactions
      Elisabeth Obermaier (Julius-Maximillians-Universität Würzburg)
    • Genetic diversity in freshwater systems: Phantom midge and ciliates show an unexpected pattern
      Thomas Berendonk (Universität Leipzig)
  • Physiology Symposium
    • Insights into evolutionary ecology of insect immunity
      Boran Altincicek (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
    • New structural insights in the evolution of phenoloxidase and hemocyanin: the cupredoxin-like domain
      Elmar Jaenicke (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
  • Behavioural Biology Symposium
    • No place to hide - foraging strategies under spatially uniform predation risk
      Jana Eccard (Universität Bielefeld)
    • Effects of the abiotic and social environment on body condition and health: a study on European rabbits
      Heiko Rödel (Universität Bayreuth)
  • Zoological Systematics Symposium
    • The morphological projects in "Metazoan Deep Phylogeny": attempts to synthesize neurobiology and phylogeny
      Steffen Harzsch (MPI für Chemische Ökologie, Jena)
    • New insights into protostome phylogeny: What shall we expect from the "postgenomic era"?
      Christoph Bleidorn (Universität Potsdam)

Graduate Forum of DZG Study Group Morphology

The days prior to the annual meeting are dedicated to the 1st Graduate Forum of DZG Study Group Morphology. The topic will be "form and function". It is organized by the PhD students of the Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie. Please find more detailed information and the registration form on the web page of the graduate forum.

Social program

Opening at 19.9. in the Aula of the university with buffet in the the inner yard of the university main building (included in meeting fee).

Social evening of the DZG at 22.9. at Phyletisches Museum with buffet, entertainment, light & sound.



Excursion at 23.9.:

1. Hainich (link to webpage)