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DGS 2018 - Program
Monday 17.09.
14:00 - 16:00 DGS Board meeting (Seminar room)
16:00 - 18:00 Curators' meeting (Alexander Koenig Gedächtnisraum)
16:00 Opening of registration
18:00 - 22:00 Welcome Party in the Savanna
snacks, drinks and guided tours to the exhibition
Tuesday 18.09.
08:15 - 08:30 Opening of conference (Lecture Hall)
08:30 - 10:10 Session I: Topic I - Mammal Research in Africa (chair: Jan Decher)
08:30 - 09:30 Keynote: Ara Monadjem "State of knowledge on African small mammals"
09:30 - 09:50 Eric Bakwo Fils "Diversity of bat species on Mount Cameroon of West Africa"
09:50 - 10:10 Julien Kerbis Peterhans "African Rodent Diversity"
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break (Festsaal)
10:40 - 12:20 Session II: Topic I - Mammal Research in Africa chair: Rainer Hutterer)
10:40 - 11:00 Kenneth Otieno Onditi "The Lophuromys aquilus species complex"
11:00 - 11:20 Ebenezer Kofi Badu "Molecular variation in Praomys daltoni complex in Ghana"
11:20 - 11:40 Frank P. Cuozzo "Thick-tailed galagos from the Lajama Research Centre, SA"
11:40 - 12:00 Livia Schäffler "Cheirogaleid lemurs in Central Western Madagascar"
12:00 - 12:20 Vera Rduch "The puku and its grassy diet in Kasanka National Park, Zambia"
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch break (Festsaal)
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session
(posters will be displayed in the “Festsaal” during the whole conference)
15:00 - 22:30 Tour to Eifel NP
Introduction to the National Park by S. Twietmeyer (during the bus trip)
Visit of observation platform for wildlife spotting, especially Red deer
Barrier-free round-trip "Wilder Kermeter"
Dinner at the Kermeterschenke with local game and vegetarian alternative
Wednesday 19.09.
09:00 - 10:40 Session III: Topic II - Conservation and Biogeography (chair: Eva Bärmann)
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote: Nyeema Harris "The dynamic niche of carnivore communities"
10:00 - 10:20 Sven Winter "Conservation genetics of giraffe in the Republic of Malawi"
10:20 - 10:40 Alina von Thaden "Museum genomics and the genetic history of German wildcat"
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break (Festsaal)
11:10 - 12:50 Session IV: Topic II - Conservation and Biogeography (chair: n.N.)
11:10 - 11:30 Stefan Merker "Tarsiers 2.0 - a new phylogeography of Sulawesi's tiny primates"
11:30 - 11:50 Davoud Fadakar "Phylogeny and distribution of gazelles in Iran"
11:50 - 12:10 (to be filled)
12:10 - 12:30 (to be filled)
12:30 - 12:50 Peter Giere "Research and the Nagoya Protocol: implications and compliance"
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch break (Festsaal)
14:00 - 16:00 Session V: Topic III - Free Topics (chair: n.N.)
14:00 - 14:20 Rainer G. Ulrich "Detection of human pathogenic Leptospira in small mammals"
14:20 - 14:40 Sabine Begall "Life expectancy and stress in giant mole-rats"
14:40 - 15:00 Kai Caspar "Cancer suppression systems in subterranean mammals"
15:00 - 15:20 Madeleine Geiger "Evolution of tooth eruption patterns in mammals"
15:20 - 15:40 Rebecca Hofmann "Structure and characteristics of the tail in Rodentia"
15:40 - 16:00 Francesco Feretti "Prey selection by wolves in a recolonised Mediterr. area"
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (Festsaal)
16:30 - 17:30 Annual General Assembly of the German Society for Mammalian Biology
17:30 - 19:00 free time
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner (Festsaal)
Thursday 20.09.
08:40 - 10:00 Session VI: Topic III - Free Topics (chair: n.N.)
08:40 - 09:00 (to be filled)
09:00 - 09:20 Anneke H. van Heteren "Diet and evolution of Middle Pleistocene cave bears"
09:20 - 09:40 Nicola S. Heckeberg "Divergence times in Cervidae - node versus tip-dating"
09:40 - 10:00 Vera Rduch "Saiga antelopes at Cologne Zoo: Husbandry, breeding, life history"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break (Festsaal)
10:30 - 12:30 Fritz Frank Award
10:30 - 11:30 Yoshiuki Henning "Cone opsin expression in Ansell’s mole-rats – an ecophysio-
logical perspective on thyroid hormones"
10:30 - 12:30 Kristof Veitschegger "Life History Evolution in Extant and Extinct Laurasiatheria
– Case Studies Elucidating the Junctions among Selective Forces, Disparity, and
Trait Evolution"
12:30 - 13:30 Closing ceremony
announcement of the winners of the Young Scientist oral presentation and
poster prizes
14:00 - 17:00 Tour to Cologne Zoo