Symposium: Advances in Crustacean Morphology
Rationale and Objective:
Morphology is often seen as a some kind of old fashioned part of biology. Even in the neighboring disciplines systematics/taxononomy and phylogenetics the importance of morphology decreased with the rise of molecular systematics and barcoding. On the other side, new techniques has been developed in the last decade such as confocal Lasercanning microscopy, Micro-Computer tomography and 4D microscopy together with computer aided 3D reconstruction. These new techniques together with already well established electron microcopy (both, transmission and scanning) allow a much more detailed study of morphological structure than ever before.
Organizing Committee:
Stefan Richter (University of Rostock, Germany)
Organization:
We plan to have about 5 symposium speakers each giving a talk for 30-45 minutes. The Symposium will be accompanied by a symposium-related session of contributed papers (15-20 min. each) on this subject area. Poster presentations are also welcome. The date of the Symposium is discussing.
Speakers:
Nicholas Strausfeld (Tuscon, Arizona, USA):
"Decapod brains and the brains of insects: common malacostracan ancestry or convergent evolution?"
Carsten Wolff (Berlin, Germany):
"Developmental studies in crustaceans - Life imaging and single cell labeling offer new insights"
Carsten H.G. Müller (Greifswald, Germany):
"The evolution of compound eyes in Decapoda: an electron microscopical perspective"
Jørgen Olesen (Copenhagen, Denmark):
"Scanning electron microscopy in crustacean systematics: strengths and shortcomings"
Christian S. Wirkner (Rostock, Germany):
"The circulatory organs in Crustacea: MicroCT, Corrosion casting and 3D reconstructions"