Activities

41th Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Mexico-City (Mexico), 28.07. - 01.08.2024

Stefan Richter - Presidential Adress

Presentations

Grams, M., Torres, A., Richter, S. (2024): Joining forces in malacostracan phylogeny - New approaches for combining morphological and phylogenomic data.

Höpel, C.G., Richter, S. (2024): Systematics and Phylogeography of Tasmanian Mountain shrimps (Anaspides, Malacostraca, Crustacea). [Lars Brundin Award for the second best oral student presentation]

21. Crustaceologen-Tagung, Rostock, 25.–27.04.2024

Presentations

Ege, Y., Foth, C., Richter, S. (2024): Adaptation und Wachstumsmuster der Scherenform von P. bernhardus.

Grams, M., Torres, A., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S. (2024): Es kann nur eine geben! Die Phylogenie(n) der Malacostraca unter Anwendung verschiedener Analysemethoden für morphologische Merkmale.

Höpel, C.G., Schwentner, M., Richter, S. (2024): Die Tasmanischen Berggarnelen (Anaspidacea, Malacostraca) im Mole Creek Karst – unabhängige Höhleneinwanderung und Anpassung.

Richter, S. (2024): Wie sah die Ur-Crustacee aus?

Wirkner, C.S., Eke, T., Scholz, S., Olesen, J. (2024): Zehnfusskrebs sein, oder nicht sein? Neuestes zur Anatomie und Phylogenie von Amphionides reynaudi.

Posters

Scholz, S., Grams. M., Richter, S. (2024): Kräftig verdreht: Die Pleonmuskulatur caridoider Malakostraken.

Schreier, C., Wilson, G.D.F., Richter, S. (2024): Tasmaniens Süßwasserasseln (Phreatoicidea) - Taxonomie und Phylogeographie im Lichte der Geologie Tasmaniens.

 

2023

2023

63rd Phylogenetisches Symposium, Greifswald, 24. – 26.11.2023.

Posters

Höpel, C.G., Schwentner, M., Richter, S. (2023): Speciation in correlation with cave immigration in Tasmanian mountain shrimps (Anaspides, Anaspidacea, Malacostraca).

 

115. Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Kassel, 05. - 08.09.2023

Presentations

Oliveira, F.G.L. (2023): On the springtail jumping: a detailed and comparative morphological study of the jumping apparatus.

Stüwe, M.A., Naumann, B. (2023): Morphological changes of the cranial musculoskeletal system during the evolution of new trophic modes in South American Killifishes (Austrolebias).

 

40th Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Ithaca (NY, US), 09. - 13.07.2022

Richter, S. - Presidential Adress

Presentations

Grams, M., Richter, S. (2023): Malacostracan phylogeny and the importance of morphological character conceptualization.

Höpel, C.G., Schwentner, M., Richter, S. (2023): Speciation in correlation with cave immigration in Tasmanian mountain shrimps (Anaspides, Anaspidacea, Malacostraca).

 

Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für angewandte Carabidologie e.V., Dresden

Presentations

Lindner, M. (2023): Biodiversitäts- und Biomasseverlust der Bodenarthropoden durch Mahd nasser Moorflächen im Naturschutzgebiet “Heiligensee und Hütelmoor”.

2022

2022

114th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Bonn, 12. - 16.09.2022

Presentations

Hazerli, D., Richter, S. (2022): The P5-swimming crab morphotype – once evolved and several times reduced?

Höpel C.G., Schwentner, M., Richter, S. (2022): Speciation in correlation with cave immigration in Tasmanian mountain shrimps (Anaspides, Anaspidacea, Malacostraca).

Grams, M., Klinger, M., Richter, S. (2022): Neither leg, nor jaw, nor all the same: A critical revision of the eumalacostracan maxilliped.

Naumann, B.

Oliveira, F.G.L. (2022): On springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola): a morphofunctional study of the jumping apparatus.

 

32th European Congress of Arachnology, Greifswald, 04.-09.09.2022

Presentations

Wirkner, C.S. (2022): Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of chelicerates. (as invited symposium speaker) 

 

5th International Congress of Invertebrate Morphology, Vienna, 08 - 12.08.2022

Naumann, B.

Günther, A.

Oliveira, F.G.L. (2022): On springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola): a morphofunctional study of the jumping apparatus.

 

39th Annual Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Helsinki, 24. - 28.07.2022

Presentations

Oliveira, F.G.L. (2022): On springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola): a morphofunctional study of the jumping apparatus.

Grams, M., Richter, S. (2022): Dependences and inapplicables – two phenomena of morphological characters exemplified by malacostracan phylogeny.

Höpel, C.G., Yeo, D., Meier, R., Richter, S.: Phylogeny of Malacostraca with special focus on the Anaspidesidae (Anaspidacea) based on full mitochondrial genomes. [Willi Hennig Award for the best oral student presentation]

 

XXVI International Congress of Entomology, Helsinki,17. - 22.07.2022:

Presentations

Oliveira, F.G.L. (2022): On springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola): a morphofunctional study of the jumping apparatus.

 

20. Crustaceologen-Tagung, Kiel, 07. – 10.04.2022

Presentations

Grams, M., Klinger, M., Richter, S. (2022): Weder Kiefer, noch Fuß - eine Revision des eumalakostraken Maxillipeden.

Wirkner, C.S., Eke, T., Scholz, S., Olesen, J. (2022): Zehnfusskrebs sein, oder nicht sein? Neuestes zur Anatomie und Phylogenie von Amphionides reynaudi.

Hazerli, D., Richter, S. (2022): Der Schwimmkrabben-Morphotyp – einmalig entstanden und mehrfach reduziert.

Höpel, C.G., Richter, S.: Die Tasmanischen Berggarnelen (Anaspides, Anaspidacea) – von der Oberfläche in den Untergrund.

2021

Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin - Annual Meeting in Lenzen, 10.10.2021

Presentation

Richter, S.: Gedanken über Arten und Unterarten.

 

II. Virtual Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution; SBE21, 19. - 23.06.2021

PresentationRichter, S.: Carcinization as a Case Study of Evolutionary Morphology.

2020

Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, online meeting, 15.12.2020

Presentation

Richter, S.: Warum es keine Menschenrassen gibt.

2019

112th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Jena, 09. - 13.09.2019

Public Lecture

Fischer, M.S., Richter, S., Krause, J., Hoßfeld, U.: Jena, Haeckel und die Frage nach den Menschenrassen: wie Rassismus Rassen macht.

Presentations

Grams, M., Richter, S.: Swimming with the mountain shrimps – locomotion in “ancient” crustaceans (Malacostraca, Anaspidacea). [Satelliten-Symposium: "Form and function of motion systems: new approaches, new opportunities, new challenges"]

Hazerli, D., Richter, S.: The evolution of swimming crabs - homologous or convergent?

Höpel, C.G., Bastrop, R., Ahyong, S.T., Richter, S.: Glacial influence on the phylogeographic pattern in Tasmanian mountain shrimps (Anaspides, Anaspidacea, Malacostraca).

 

XXXVIII. Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Berkeley/Kalifornien, 26. - 31.05.2019

Organisation

Göpel, T., Richter, S.: Symposium "Character analysis in phylogenetics"

Presentations

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: Character analysis in phylogenetics – Conceptualization, ancestral states and evolutionary transformation.

Richter, S., Grams, M.: How functional morphology informs character analysis.

 

19. Treffen deutschsprachiger Crustaceologen, Munich, 28. - 31.03.2019

Presentations

Kalke, P., Frase, T., Richter, S.: The peripheral nervous system as key strucutre for sessility - The development of the nervous system in the bay barnacle (Amphibalanus improvisus). [Award for best student presentation, 3rd prize]

Frase, T., Richter, S.: Die Frontalfimalentorgane der Crustacea.

Hazerli, D., Richter, S.: Endophragmalskelett und extrinsische Muskulatur der Pereiopoden bei Echten Krabben (Brachyura) - Erkenntnisse über morphologische Modifikationen und die Evolution der "Schwimmkrabben".

Ege, Y., Richter, S.: Funktionsmorphologie der Chelipeden von Einsiedlerkrebsen.

Grams, M., Richter, S.: Swimming on the hills down under. [Award for best student presentation, 2nd prize]

Posters

Schwentner, M., Richter, S., Giribet, G.: Trans-oceanic dispersal shaped distribution of Branchiopoda.

2018

15th Annual Meeting of the German Ichthyological Society, Jena, 12. – 14.10.2018.

Rixen, A. (2018): Die Schuppenvielfalt der Pristigasteridae mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von „Ilisha“ africana. (Presentation and poster)

 

111th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Greifswald, 11. - 14.09.2018

Presentations

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S.: Anything but void – the hemolymph lacunar system of Penaeus vannamei.

Grams, M., Richter, S.: Two joints are not enough – functional morphology of the protopodal part of thoracopods in malacostracans.

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: A morpho-functional comparison of antenniform legs in Pedipalpi.

Posters

Frase, T., Kalke, P., Richter, S.: The development of protocerebral sensory organs in Amphibalanus improvisus (Cirripedia, Crustacea).

Günther, A., Wirkner, C.S.: The bearer of bad news: comparative morphology of metasomata in scorpions.

Höpel, C.G., Bastrop, R., Ahyong, S.T., Richter, S.: Phylogeography of the Tasmanian mountain shrimps (Anaspides; Malacostraca) - Multiple immigrations into subterranean habitats and biodiversity

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: The prosomal endoskeleton and musculature in Galeodes granti (Solifugae)

Rixen, A.: Die Schuppenvielfalt der Pristigasteridae mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von „Ilisha“ africana.

 

31st European Congress of Arachnology, Vác, Hungary, 08. – 13.07.2018

Presentations

Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of chelicerates. (invited keynote speaker)

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: A morpho-functional comparison of antenniform legs in Pedipalpi.

Posters

Günther, A., Wirkner, C.S.: The bearer of bad news: comparative morphology of metasomata in scorpions.

Heidbrink, R., Wirkner, C.S.: The hemolymph vascular system in Parasteatoda tepidariorum (Araneae; Theridiidae).

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: The prosomal endoskeleton and musculature in Galeodes granti (Solifugae).

 

9th International Crustacean Congress (ICC9), Washington, D.C., 22. - 25.05.2018

Presentations

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S.: Mission shrimpossible - The circulatory system of Penaeus vannamei with special focus on lacunar structures.

Grams, M., Richter, S.: The joint in between - intrabasal joints and their relevance for malacostracan phylogeny.

Hazerli, D., Richter, S.: Buttresses and muscles: first 3D reconstructions of brachyuran axial skeletons and intrinsic musculature – Why swimming crabs (Portunidae) are able to swim.

Richter, S., Höpel, C.G., Reinhardt, M., Ahyong, S.T.: Multiple immigrations into the subterranean habitat in the Tasmanian Anaspides (Malacostraca) – Timing and adaptation.

2017

110th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Bielefeld, 12. - 15.09.2017

Presentations

Frase, T., Richter, S.: Beautiful bodies, tiny brains? The protocerebral architecture and corresponding sense organs in calanoid copepods.

Grams, M., Wirkner, C.S., Runge, J.: Serial and special: comparison of podomeres and muscles in tactile vs walking legs of whip scorpions (Arachnida, Uropygi).

Kalke, P., Frase, T., Richter, S.: The development of the nervous system in the bay barnacle (Amphibalanus improvisus) – the increasing importance of the peripheral nervous system.

Posters

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: These legs were NOT made for walking.

 

XXXVI. Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, St. Petersburg/Florida, 26. - 30.08.2017

Presentations

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S.: Description, character conceptualization and reconstruction of ancestral states: The evolution of arthropod hearts.

Richter, S.: Homologue and Homology – the same or different?

2016

109th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Kiel, 14. - 17.09.2016

Presentations

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S.: State of the heart - an evolutionary investigation of arthropod cardiac structures.

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: These legs were made for walking ... - Three dimensional analysis of the spider locomotory system.

Schwentner, M., Combosch, D., Pakes Nelson, J., Richter, S., Giribet, G.: Pancrustacean phylogenomics: New insights into pancrustacean evolution from large-scale transcriptome analyses.

Posters

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: A  new  way  of  making  a  maxilliped  -  UBX  expression  in  the  maxilliped  of  the  mystacocarid crustacean Derocheilocaris remanei. (Poster Prize in the group ‘Developmental Biology’)

 

20th International Congress of Arachnology, 02. – 09.07.2016, Golden, USA

Presentations

Wirkner, C.S., Runge, J.: Three dimensional analysis of the arachnid locomotory system – topics and problems.

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: Three dimensional analysis of the spider locomotory system – first answers and solutions.

2015

57th Phylogenetic Symposium "Endless forms most beautiful – die Rolle der Morphologie in der Evolutionsbiologie", Rostock, 20. - 22.11.2015

Organisation

Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Scientific committee and organisers of the conference.

 

29th European Congress of Arachnology, Brno (Czech Republic), 24. - 28.08.2015

Presentations

Runge, J.; Wirkner, C.S.: These legs were made for walking ... - Evolutionary morphology of walking legs in Arachnida (Chelicerata; Arthropoda).

 

XXXIV. Meeting der Willi Hennig Society, New York, 28.06. - 02.07.2015

Presentations

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: Why ontologies are not sufficient to delineate characters?

Richter, S.: Homology and Synapomorphy - A Never Ending Story.

2014

107th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG) in Göttingen, satellite symposium "Animal Phylogeny - Past, Present and Future", 11.09.2014

Presentations

Richter, S.: Crustacean Disparity: Challenges for Evolutionary Morphology. (invited)

 

28th European Congress of Arachnology, Turin (Italy), 24. - 29.08.2014

Presentations

Runge, J., Landkammer, S., Valek, R., Wirkner, C.S.: 3D functional morphology of the femur-patella joint in Cupiennius salei (Araneae; Ctenidae).

 

8th International Crustacean Congress (ICC8), Frankfurt am Main, 18.-23.08.2014

Organisation

Olesen, J., Richter, S.: Symposium Branchipoda.

Presentations

Meland, K., Willassen, E., Richter, S.: Phylogenetic relationships in Lophogastrida.

Richter, S.: Crustacean disparity – challenges for evolutionary morphology. (Keynote, invited)

Keiler, J., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: Phenotypic disparity of anomalan crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomala) and the evolution of a crab-like body form – a fascinating insight into the evolutionary process of carcinization.

Quade, F., Foth, C., Kleinteich, T., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: Functional Morphology of Anomalan Chelipeds.

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S.: Digging deep: the circulatory system of Xiphosura enlightened. (Second prize: “TCS Student Presentations Award”)

Schwentner, M., Richter, S.: The impact of resting egg banks and temporal dispersal on year-to-year changes in the genetic composition of adult populations and population differentiation in Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda).

Posters

Kaji, T., Fritsch, M., Schwentner, M., Olesen, J., Richter, S.: Male claspers in clam shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: a case study on homology versus analogy.

 

3rd International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM3), Berlin, 03. - 07.08.2014

Presentations

Wirkner, C.S.: Starting to understand the circulatory organs in protostomes.

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S.: Digging deep: the circulatory system of Xiphosura enlightened.

Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Pomrehn, S.W., Wirkner, C.S.: The brain matters – comparative morphological aspects of vascular systems in the brains of pulmonate arachnids.

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S., Göpel, T., Huckstorf, K., Keiler, J., Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Scholz, S., Richter, S.: Introduction of an ontology of arthropod circulatory systems (OArCS) and a structural model for the description of anatomical features (morphemes) using ontologies.

Stegner, M.E.J., Richter, S.: Development of the nervous system in Cephalocarida (Crustacea) – early neuronal differentiation and successive patterning.

Richter, S., Fritsch, M.: New developmental modes in the ground pattern of Cladoceromorpha (Cyclestherida + Cladocera) – the starting point of water-flea success!

Jirikowski, G., Richter, S., Wolff, C.: Evolution of developmental timing in malacostracan crustaceans - what muscle development teaches us about loss and reacquisition of larval stages.

Keiler, J., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: Phenotypic disparity of anomalan crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomala) and the evolution of a crab-like body form – a fascinating insight into the evolutionary process of carcinization.

Kaji, T., Bourguignon, T., Keiler, J., Miura, T.: Beyond the threshold of functional configuration: on the origin of novel defensive organ “nasus” in Nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termitidae).

Posters

Huckstorf, K., Wirkner, C.S.: Boring yet important: vascular systems in liphistiids (Araneae: Mesothelae), the sister group to all remaining spiders.

Frase, T., Richter, S.: Insights into the development of the nervous system in Anostraca (Crustacea).

Kaji, T., Fritsch, M., Schwentner, M., Olesen, J., Richter, S.: Male claspers in clam shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the light of evolution: a case study on homology versus analogy.

2013

106th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Munich, 13.-16.09.2013

Presentations

Göpel, T. Wirkner, C.S.: New insights into the Xiphosuran circulatory system.

Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the vascular and respiratory systems in harvestmen.

Richter, S., Fritsch, M.: Developmental strategies in Cyclestheria, sistergroup to water fleas Cladocera, Crustacea) – direct or pseudo-direct development?

Posters

Tippelt, L., Schwentner, M., Richter, S.: Differentiating between variability and variation in Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) using the example of Eocyzicus.

 

XXXII. Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, Rostock, 03. - 07.08.2013

Organisation

Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Scientific committee and organisers of the conference.

Presentations

Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Perspectives on morphological objects: DUs (descriptional units), FUs (functional units) and EUs (evolutionary units).

Schwentner, M., Richter, S.: Biogeographic history of the Australian Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda).

Stegner, M., Richter, S.: The nervous system in Cephalocarida – How complexity in an ancient crustacean helps unravel the phylogeny of Tetraconata.

Posters

Göpel, T., Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the circulatory system in Xiphosura reveals complexity in the ground pattern of Euchelicerata.

Huckstorf, K., Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the circulatory system in Araneae (Chelicerata; Arachnida).

Jirikowski, G., Wolff, C., Richter, S.: Heterochrony in evolution of myogenesis – retention of larval ontogeny in embryonic development of malacostracan crustaceans.

Keiler, J., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Bloody carcinization – evolutionary morphology of the hemolymph vascular system in crab-like decapods (Crustacea).

Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Wirkner, C.S.: On the evolution of complex arterial systems in Arachnida – can complex structures evolve independently?

Pomrehn, S.W., Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the hemolymph vascular system in whip-spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi).

Schwentner, M., Clavier, S., Fritsch, M., Olesen, J., Padhye, S., Timms, B.V., Richter, S.: Cyclestheria hislopi (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): a group of morphologically cryptic species with origins in the Cretaceous.

Tippelt, L., Schwentner, M., Richter, S.: Evolutionary systematics of Australian Eocyzicus (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) - two approaches for revealing and describing cryptic diversity.

 

16. Crustaceologentagung, Greifswald, 14.-17.03.2013.

Presentations

Jirikowski, G., Wolff, C., Richter, S.: Die Myogenese der Malacostraca - Heterochrone Evolution und versteckte Hinweise auf die Larvalentwicklung.

Maciolek, L., Plagge, C., Türkay, M., Richter, S., Streit, B., Klaus, S.: Morphometrische und genetische Differenzierung von Liocarcinus depurator (Decapoda, Brachyura) in der Nordsee.

Meusel, F., Schwentner, M., Richter, S.: Diversität und Phylogeographie australischer Triops Arten.

Posters

Jaszkowiak, K., Keiler, J., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: The mouth apparatus of Lithodes maja - functional morphology and evolution.

2012

105. Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Konstanz, 21. - 24.09.2012.

Presentations

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: Insights in the evolution of larval development in Branchiopoda (Crustacea): First indications of the evolutionary transformation towards Cladocera.

Posters

Jaszkowiak, K., Keiler, J., Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: The mouth apparatus of Lithodes maja - functional morphology and evolution.

Quade, F., Kleinteich, T., Richter, S.: Anomalan Chelae: Function and Evolution.

 

Arthropod Neuronal Network - Symposium, Konstanz, 20. - 21.09.2012.

Presentations

Richter, S.: The evolution of the entomostracan abdomen - a nervous system perspective.

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: Insights in the evolution of larval development in Branchiopoda (Crustacea): First indications of the evolutionary transformation towards Cladocera.

 

27th European Congress of Arachnology, 02. - 07.09.2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Presentations

Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Pomrehn, S.W., Wirkner, C.S.: Detailed description of capillarization in an arachnid: the prosomal ganglion in Brotheas granulatus.

Posters

Runge, J., Wirkner, C.S.: First three dimensional investigation of the hemolymph vascular system in the European garden spider Araneus diadematus (Araneae: Araneidae).

Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Wirkner, C.S.: The supply with oxygen and nutrients of the prosomal ganglion of Mitostoma chrysomelas (Hermann, 1804) (Opiliones, Nemastomatidae).

 

Euro Evo Devo Conference, Lisbon, 10. - 13.07.2012

Presentations

Jirikowski, G., Richter, S., Wolff, C.: Evolution of malacostracan Muscle development: How Myogenic patterns relate to modes of ontogeny.

2011

4th Graduate Forum of the Morphology Section of the DZG, 21. - 23.10.2011, Munich

Presentations

Keiler, J., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: „Blut ist dicker als Wasser – Perspektiven zur evolutionären Morphologie des Hämolymphgefäßsystems der Reptantia (Crustacea: Decapoda)“.

 

Deep Metazoan Phylogeny 2011 – new data, new challenges, 11. - 14.10.Munich

Presentations

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: The evolution of a free-swimming larva into an embryonic-like larva - implications from developmental sequences of the nervous system in Branchiopoda.

Richter, S.: The role of morphology in evolutionary research. (as invited speaker)

Poster

Stegner, M.E.J., Stemme, T., Richter, S.: The ventral nerve cord in Cephalocarida and Remipedia (Crustacea) - synapomorphic or symplesiomorphic within Tetraconata?

 

Tag der Zoologie - 140th anniversary of the Zoological Institute in Rostock, 02.07.2011

On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the Zoological Institute of the University of Rostock, the ‘Day of Zoology’ took place on 2 July 2011. The programme included public lectures, the opening of the new special exhibition, insights into research, aquariums, terrariums, guided tours of the zoological collection, 3D shows and finally a convivial evening with bratwurst, beer and jazz music.

 

2nd International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, 20. - 23.06.2011, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Organisation

Richter, S. & Wanninger A.: Symposium Neurophylogeny, as members of the Scientific Committee.

Presentations

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: From a clam shrimp to a water-flea: evolutionary insights from developmental sequences in the nervous system of branchiopod larvae.

Huckstorf, K., Kosok, K., Seyfarth, E.A., Wirkner, C.S.: The hemolymph vascular system in Cupiennius salei (Araneae, Ctenidae).

Jirikowski G., Kreissl, S., Richter, S., Wolff, C.: Myogenesis of malacostracan crustaceans: evolutionary conservation of larval developmental traits in direct developers.

Keiler, J., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Blood is thicker than water – evolutionary morphology of the hemolymph vascular system of hermit crabs and king crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomala)

Klußmann-Fricke, B.-J., Prendini, L., Wirkner, C.S.: Complexity and variation in the hemolymph vascular system in scorpions: an evolutionary analysis.

Scholz, S., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Complex phenotypic plasticity – the hemolymph vascular system of the marbled crayfish.

Stegner, M.E.J., Stemme, T., Richter, S.: The nervous system in Cephalocarida and Remipedia – new implications for tetraconate phylogeny.

Posters

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: The branchiopod brain: lost in complex morphology? The cephalic nervous system in Lynceus brachyurus.

Keiler, J., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: A crab and yet no crab – evolutionary morphology of the hemolymph vascular system in true crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) and king crabs (Decapoda: Anomala: Lithodidae).

Scholz, S., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: The hemolymph vascular system in Stenopus hispidus (Decapoda, Crustacea) and its phylogenetic implications for the Decapoda.

Stegner, M.E.J., Richter, S.: The multilobed complex in Cephalocarida – a secondary olfactory center with detailed correspondences to Insecta and Chilopoda. [Prize for the best student poster awarded by the International Society for Invertebrate Morphology]

 

20. Annual Meeting of the German Society for History and Theory of Biology, 17. - 19.06.2011, Bonn

Presentations

Richter, S.: Morphologie als Erklärungswissenschaft.

 

15. Crustaceologentagung, 7. - 10.04.2011, Regensburg

Presentations

Fritsch, M.; Richter, S. (2011): Das Gehirn der Großbranchiopoden: "primitiv", sekundär vereinfacht oder doch komplex?

Keiler, J.; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2011): Evolutionäre Morphologie des Hämolymphgefäßsystems der Reptantia (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Decapoda): Einsiedlerkrebse und Königskrabben.

Møller, O.S. (2011): Convergent evolution of the caligid copepods and the branchiurans: an old story of convergence addressed anew.

Schwentner, M.; Timms, B.V.; Richter, S. (2011): Vergleichende Phylogeographie australischer Muschelschaler (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) - Endemismus oder weiträumige Verbreitung. Auszeichnung für den besten Vortrag verliehen durch The Crustacean Society.

Stegner, M.E.J.; Richter, S. (2011): Morphologie des Nervensystems der Cephalocarida unter phylogenetischem Blickwinkel.

Posters

Jirikowski, G.; Kreissl, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, C. (2011): Myogenesis in malacostracan crustaceans: evolutionary conservation of larval developmental traits in direct developers.

Raupach, M.J.; Keiler, J.; Neumann, H.; Schwentner, M.; Richter, S. (2011): No lonely hermit? DNA barcodes reveal a surprisingly high genetic variability within Pagurus bernhardus (Linnaeus, 1758).

Scholz, S.; Wirkner, C.S.; Richter, S. (2011): Das Kreislaufsystem von Stenopus hispidus (Stenopodidae, Decapoda).

Stegner, M.E.J.; Richter, S. (2011): The multilobed complex in Cephalocarida (Crustacea). A secondary olfactory center with detailed correspondences to Insecta and Chilopoda.

Wittek, C.; Richter, S.; Wirkner, C.S. (2011): Das Kreislaufsystem der Stomatopoda - Struktur, Funktion und phylogenetische Implikationen (Malacostraca: Stomatopoda).

2010

Symposium: Sichtbare Form. Morphologische Perspektiven in Natur und Kultur, 22.-23.09.2010, Berlin, Germany

Presentations

Richter, S.: Morphologie als Erklärungswissenschaft.

 

103. Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), 19.–22.09.2010, Hamburg, Germany

Presentations

Klußmann, B.-J., Prendini, L. & Wirkner, C.S.: Comparative morphology of the circulatory system in scorpions: an evolutionary character analysis.

Schwentner, M., Timms, B.V. & Richter, S.: Phylogeography of Australian clam shrimp species (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata) – regional endemism versus wide dispersal. 

Posters

Huckstorf, K. & Wirkner, C.S.: 3D-Data on the circulatory system in Cupiennius salei Keyserling (Araneae: Ctenidae).

Scholz, S., Richter, S. & Wirkner, C.S.: Constant and variable patterns in the hemolymph vascular system of the Marbled Crayfish.

 

18th International Congress of Arachnology, 11.–17.07.2010, Siedlce, Polen

Presentations

Klußmann, B.-J., Prendini, L. & Wirkner, C.S.: Comparative morphology of the circulatory system in scorpions: an evolutionary character analysis. 

Posters

Huckstorf, K. & Wirkner, C.S.: 3D-Data on the circulatory system in Cupiennius salei Keyserling (Araneae: Ctenidae).

Runge, J. & Müller, C.H.G.: Survey of the araneofauna (Araneae) of Ibiza (Balearic Islands).

 

2. Euro Evo Devo Conference, 06. – 09.07.2010, Paris, France

Posters

Jirikowski, G., Kreissl, S., Richter, S. & Wolff, C.: Myogenesis of malacostracan crustaceans: evolutionary conservation of larval developmental traits in direct developers.

 

7. International Crustacean Congress, 20.–25.06.2010, Qingdao, China

Organisation

Richter, S.: Symposium Advances in Crustacean Morphology.

Presentations

Fritsch, M. & Richter, S.: The development of the nervous system in the clam shrimp Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird, 1859) - A neuroanatomical ‘life history’.

Keiler, J., Richter, S. & Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of carcinization in Anomala: the hemolymph vascular system in hermit crabs (Paguroidea) and king crabs (Lithodoidea).

Møller, O.S. & Olesen, J.: First description of a stage I larvae of a non African Dolops.

Richter, S., Brenneis, G., Fritsch, M., Stegner, M.E.J.: What is an abdomen – a nervous system perspective.

Schwentner, M., Timms, B. & Richter, S.: Integrative taxonomy and phylogeography of australian Spinicaudata (Branchiopoda). Funded by the Denton Belk Memorial Award.

Stegner, M.E.J., Brenneis, G. & Richter, S.: A phylogenetic perspective on the nervous system in Cephalocarida.

Wirkner, C.S.: The circulatory organs in Crustacea: MicroCT, corrosion casting and 3D-reconstructions.

 

Symposium der Wissenskulturen, 30.04 - 01.05.2010, Rostock

Presentations

Richter, S.: Die Transformation der Morphologie unter dem Einfluss und Wandel der Evolutionstheorie.

Posters

Fritsch, M. & Richter, S.: Distribution of neurotransmitters in Triops cancriformis (Crustacea; Branchiopoda) and its phylogenetic implications.

Keiler, J., Wirkner, C.S. & Richter, S.: Comparative morphology of the hemolymph vascular system in Brachyura and Anomala (Crustacea: Decapoda).

Stegner, M.E.J., Richter,S. & Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionäre Morphologie des Gehirns der Peracarida.

 

Australian Museum Sydney, March 2010, Sydney, Australia

Presentations

Schwentner, M., Timms, B. & Richter, S.: Biodiversity and population structure of Australian Spinicaudata (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Funded by the ‘Postgraduate Award’ of the Australian Museum.

2009

102. Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), 25.–28.09.2009, Regensburg

Prensentations

Fritsch, M. & Richter, S.: Development of the central nervous system in the free swimming notostracan larvae Triops cancriformis (Bosc) and comparison with the embryonized cyclestheridean larvae Cyclestheria hislopi (Baird).

Stegner, M.E.J., Brenneis, G. & Richter, S.: Brain anatomy in Cephalocarida.

Møller, O.S.: The condensed central nervous system of Argulus foliaceus: 3D-Reconstruction and evolutionary consequences.

Posters

Keiler, J., Wirkner, C.S. & Richter, S.: Comparative morphology of the hemolymph vascular system in Brachyura and Anomala (Crustacea: Decapoda).

 

National Taiwan University, September 2009, Taipeh, Taiwan

Prensentations

Schwentner, M., Timms, B. & Richter, S.: Biodiversity and genetic diversity of Australian Spinicaudata.

 

Evolution of the arthropod nervous system, 06.–08.092009, Jena

Prensentations

Fritsch, M. & Richter, S.: Comparison of a free swimming and an embryonized branchiopod larvae.

Richter, S., Brenneis, G., Fritsch, M., Stegner, M.E.J.: What is an abdomen – a nervous system perspective.

Stegner, M.E.J., Brenneis, G. & Richter, S.: The anatomy of the nervous system in Cephalocarida.

 

14. Crustaceologentagung, 02.–05.04.2009, Rostock

Organisation

Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S. & Møller, O.S.: Scientific committee and organisers of the conference.

Presentations

Fritsch, M. & Richter, S.: Survey of the nervous system development in Triops cancriformis (Branchiopoda: Notostraca) and comparison with other Crustacea.

Huckstorf, K. und Wirkner, C.: Vergleichende Morphologie des Hämolymph-Gefäß-Systems der Euphausiacea (Malacostraca, Crustacea).

Jirikowski, G. & Richter, S.: Myogenesis and cardiogenesis of the marbled crayfish (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Decapoda, Astacida).

Keiler, J. & Richter, S.: Frühjahrsputz im Stammbaum: Die Putzbeine der Anomala – komplexe Merkmalsträger mit phylogenetischer Relevanz.

Müller, C.H.G., Wolff, C. & Richter, S.: The segmentation problem in Articulata – are there any traces for transitory coelomic cavities during embryogenesis of Orchestia cavimana (Crustacea, Peracarida)?

Reimann, A., Richter, S. & Scholtz, G.: The phylogeny of Anomala (Decapoda, Reptantia) based on foregut characters.

Scholz, S., Richter, S. & Wirkner, C.S.: Phänotypische Plastizität und Konstanz des Hämolymph-Gefäß-Systems beim Marmorkrebs (Decapoda, Astacida).

Stegner, M.E.J., Richter, S. & Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionäre Morphologie des Gehirns der Peracarida.

Posters

Stegner, M.E.J., Brenneis, G. & Richter, S.: Immunohistochemical survey on the central nervous system in Hutchinsoniella macracantha (Cephalocarida).

 

Celebrating Darwin: From The Origin of Species to Deep Metazoan Phylogeny. 4. – 6.03.2009. Berlin, Germany:

Presentations

Brenneis, G. & Richter, S.: 3D reconstruction of the nervous system in Mystacocarida (Arthropoda, Crustacea).

Posters

Fritsch, M. & Richter, S.: Distribution of neurotransmitters in Triops cancriformis (Crustacea; Branchiopoda) and its phylogenetic implications.

Stegner, M.E.J., Brenneis, G. & Richter, S.: Immunohistochemical survey on the central nervous system in Hutchinsoniella macracantha (Cephalocarida).

 

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 03.–07.01.2009, Boston, USA

Presentations

Møller, O.S.: Branchiura: Parasitic Crustaceans with a Sting. Invited speaker for Symposium “Biology of Parasitic Crustacea”

2008

Advances in Crustacean Phylogenetics, 7.–11.10.2008, Rostock

Organisation

Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S., Møller, O.S.: Scientific committee and organisers of the conference.

Presentations

Richter, S.:  Evolutionary morphology of compound and nauplius eyes in Crustacea.

Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the circulatory system in Malacostraca.

Møller, O.S.: Branchiuran phylogeny – ontogeny, morphology and molecules.

Posters

Brenneis, G., Richter, S.: Immunohistochemical study and 3D reconstruction of the central nervous system of Mystacocarida. Prize for an excellent poster.

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: Development of the nervous system in Notostraca (Crustacea; Branchiopoda).

Huckstorf, K., Wirkner, C.S.: Comparative morphology of the circulatory system of krill (Euphausiacea, Crustacea).

Keiler, J., Richter, S.: Functional and evolutionary morphology of the 5th pereiopods in anomalan decapods (Reptantia; Decapoda; Crustacea).

Møller, O.S.: Dipteropeltis revisited: Important clues to resolving branchiuran phylogeny hidden in a ‘semi-cryptic’ species.

Scholz, S., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Morphological aspects of the circulatory system in the marbled crayfish (Decapoda, Astacida).

Schwentner, M., Timms, B., Bastrop, R., Richter, S.: Combining morphological and molecular characters to distinguish spinicaudatan species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Prize for best poster.

Stegner, M.E.J., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the brain in Peracarida.

 

101. Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), 9.-22.09.2008, Jena

Presentations

Møller, O.S.: Development and possible evolution of first maxillae suction discs in carp lice (Crustacea, Branchiura), molecular and morphological evidence.

Schwentner, M., Timms, B., Bastrop, R., Richter, S.: Combining morphological and molecular characters to distinguish spinicaudatan species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda).

Wirkner, C.S., Prendini, L.: Comparative morphology of the hemolymph vascular system in scorpions – a survey using corrosion casting, microCT and 3D-reconstruction.

Posters

Keiler, J., Richter, S.: Functional and evolutionary morphology of the 5th pereiopods in anomalan decapods (Reptantia; Decapoda; Crustacea).

Stegner, M.E.J., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the brain in Peracarida. Poster prize in group Morphology.

 

1. International Congress of Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM) 17.–21.08.2008, Copenhagen, Denmark

Presentations

Møller, O.S.: Development and possible evolution of first maxillae suction discs in carp lice (Crustacea, Branchiura), molecular and morphological evidence. Journal of Morphology, 269: 1466.

Richter, S.: Crustacean Phylogenetics and combined analyses. Journal of Morphology, 269: 1462.

Wirkner, C.S., Richter, S.: Evolutionary morphology of the circulatory system in Malacostraca. Journal of Morphology, 269: 1472.

Posters

Brenneis, G., Richter, S.: Immunohistochemical study and 3D reconstruction of the central nervous system of Mystacocarida. Journal of Morphology, 269: 1481 – 1482.

Fritsch, M., Richter, S.: Morphology and Ontogeny of the Nervous System in the Genus Triops (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Notostraca). Journal of Morphology, 269: 1482.

Keiler, J., Richter, S.: Functional and evolutionary morphology of the 5th pereiopods in anomalan decapods (Reptantia; Decapoda; Crustacea). Journal of Morphology, 269: 1491.

Møller, O.S.: Dipteropeltis revisited: Important clues to resolving branchiuran phylogeny hidden in a ‘semi-cryptic’ species. Journal of Morphology, 269: 1485.

Schwentner, M., Timms, B., Bastrop, R., Richter, S.: Combining morphological and molecular characters to distinguish spinicaudatan species (Crustacea: Branchiopoda). Journal of Morphology, 269: 1485 – 1486.

Stegner, M.E.J., Richter, S., Wirkner, C.S.: Evolutionary morphology of the brain in Peracarida. Journal of Morphology, 269: 1483.