Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde e. V.

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Newsletter 1/2016

Board (1.1.2013-31.12.2016)

1st chair: Prof. Dr. Klaus Hackländer, Wien 2nd chair: Prof. Dr. Hermann Ansorge, Görlitz 3rd chair: PD Dr. Thomas Kaiser, Hamburg Assessor: PD Dr. Frank Zachos, Wien Executive Secretary: Dr. Philip Dammann, Essen Secretary: Dr. Jürgen Lange, Berlin Treasurer: PD Dr. Sabine Begall, Essen

Address of the Executive Secretary: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde e.V. Dr. Philip Dammann (Geschäftsführer) Zentrales Tierlaboratorium Universitätsklinikum Essen Hufelandstr. 55 D-45122 Essen Tel. 0201-7 23 46 63

e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mammalianbiology.org/

Bank account: If you want use bank transfer to pay your membership fees, please contact our treasurer Dr. Sabine Begall ([email protected]).

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde e.V. - German Society for Mammalian Biology -

Dear DGS members, We cordially invite you to join the 90th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Mammalian Biology hosted by the Tierpark and the Zoo Berlin, Germany. The meeting will take place between 4th and 8th September 2016 at the Schloss Friedrichsfelde in the Tierpark Berlin. Please see the preliminary programme later in this newsletter. More info can be found at http://www.zoo-berlin.de/dgs2016/.

Please note that a new Board will be elected during our general assembly on Monday, 5th September. Any member of at least three years standing can be elected. In agreement with our constitution, the election of Board members will carried out by a written and secret ballot. The candidates receiving more than half of the valid votes will be elected. All members are invited to take part.

Executive Secretary – Essen, July 2016

90. DGS-Tagung in Berlin Draft program (06.07.2016)* Sunday, 04.09.2016:_________________________________________________ 16:00

Board Meeting (9 persons) (Tierpark Cafeteria)

16:00 Meeting of the museum curators, about 10 persons (Schloss Friedrichsfelde) 18:00

Official Registration (Schloss Friedrichsfelde)

19:00

Ice-Breaker (Schloss Friedrichsfelde)

Day 1: Monday, 05.09.16___________________________________________________________ All scientific sessions will take place in the Schloss Friedrichsfelde 08:30

Welcome by the DGS Board (Sabine Begall)

08:40

Welcome by the CEO of the Berlin Zoo AG, Andreas Knieriem, and a short introduction „Berlin und its two zoos in the German capital“

Session I chair: 09:00

Rainer Hutterer: „ Forgotten treasure: Lives and fates of members of the DGS“

09:20

Peter Giere: „Berlin mammalogy at the dawn of the DGS“

09:40

Jan Decher: “Comparing the mammalian fauna of German colonial Togo at the time of Paul Matschie with a mammal checklist of the current Republic of Togo”

10:00

Coffee break

10:30

Jan Mohnhaupt: „The Zoo of the others - Relationship and competition between the two Berlin Zoos during the Cold War“

10:50

André Schüle: „ Animal training in zoos - a chance for research”

11:10

Florian Sicks: „ REM sleep as indicator for stress in giraffes “

11:30

Sabine Hammer: “Evidence for Introgressive Hybridization of Captive Markhor (Capra falconeri) with Domestic Goat: Cautions for Reintroduction”

11:50

Anne Berger: „Living wild in the urban jungle – research projects on wild mammals in Berlin“

12:10

Madlen Ziege: “Rural-to-urban landscape genetics of European rabbits”

12:30

Lunch

Session II

chair:

14:00

Verena Coleman: „ Muscle mitochondrial stress adaptation operates independently of endogenous FGF21 action“

14:20

Kai Caspar: „ Through the looking glass, and what gibbons found there – New observations on the behaviour of lesser apes when confronted with their own reflection and a novel modification of the mirror-test”

14:40

Hannes Lerp: „Evolution of ecological traits and phylogeny of the genus Gazella“

15:00

Rainer Ulrich: “Viral and bacterial agents in Norway rat populations from zoological gardens in Germany”

15:20

Anneke H. van Heteren: “Pre- and postnatal growth rates of Phanourios minor from the Pleistocene of Cyprus”

15:40

Coffee break

16:00

General Assembly

Evening free, visit Berlin!

Day 2: Tuesday, 06.09.16_______________________________________________________

Session III

chair:

08:30

Frank Zachos: „Genetic analysis of endangered Asian elephants from Myanmar”

08:50

Sabine Hammer: “Ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of Bronze Age pigs from Hallstatt– Results from a pilot study”

09.10

Nicola Heckeberg: “New cervid cytochrome b sequences, new conundrums in cervid systematics”

09:30

Michael Hiller: “Discovering the Genomic Basis of Morphological and Physiological Differences between Mammalian Species with Forward Genomics”

09.50

Coffee break

10:15

I. Salvarina: “Stable isotopes in African bat species”

10:35

Gertrud Rößner: „What is a deer and what is an antler?”

10:55

Hendrik Edelhoff: „Effects of landscape fragmentation on genetic diversity and population structure of Red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Northern Germany”

11:15

Michael Hofreiter: „The palaeogenomic revolution in zoology“

11:35

Poster Session

13:30

Lunch

16:00

Guided tours in the NH Museum & in the Zoo Berlin

19:00

Conference dinner in the Zoo Restaurant

Day 3: Wednesday, 06.09.16______________________________________________________ Session IV

chair:

09:00

Clara Stefen: “Methods of postmortal age-determination in Cricetus cricetus”

09:20

Sabine Begall: “Do breeders and non-breeders in eusocial Ansell’s mole-rats represent different personalities?”

09:40

Jan Wölfer: “ Morphological adaptations of sciuromorph limb bones to different locomotor behaviors”

10:00

Sandra Jungnickel: “Comparative morphology of the m. cutaneus trunci of the polecat and the suricate”

10:20

Anita Schweizer: “Comparative anatomy of the osseous inner ear of dog breeds, dingoes and wolves - A study of intraspecific variation and domestication”

10:40

Coffee break

11:00

Yoshiyuki Henning: „How do retinal thyroid hormone transporters influence mammalian color vision?”

11:20

Sara Lado: “Population history and taxonomy of African hares (genus Lepus) inferred from genetic variation”

11:40

Paper Fritz-Frank-Förderpreis

12:15

Lunch

Session V

chair:

14:00

Sandra Malewski: „ Magnetoreception in rodents – new species, new methods”

14:20

Sabine Martini: “Magnetoreception in Dogs – New Insights”

14:40

Marco Zaccaroni: “The diet of Savi’s pine vole: a new quantitative approach”

15:00

End of the 90. DGS Annual Meeting

Announcement of the

General assembly 2016 September 5th, 2016, 16 00 Schloss Friedrichsfelde, Tierpark Berlin

Agenda 1.

Acceptance of the agenda

2.

Report of the executive secretary for 2015

3.

Report of the treasurer for 2015

4.

Report of the auditors for 2015

5.

Approval of the board

6.

Election of the auditors for 2016

7.

Decision on membership fees 2016

8.

Discussion about future venues

9.

Situation of „Mammalian Biology“

10.

Miscellaneous

11.

Election of a new Board

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