Important: 1) Please join your section group meeting during lunch break today at for latest information and to shape future plans. 2) Profit from the unique asset of the DZG meetings - the broad interdisciplinary picture of modern Zoology - and join our multidisciplinary session at 3pm at #DZG2024

The second plenary at 10 am is by Lena Wilfert from U Ulm (www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/evolutionary-ecology-and-conservation-genomics/prof-dr-lena-wilfert/) on the effects of global change on insect health on the population level. #DZG2024

Of course, even if the 13th of September is a Friday, we will start with the plenaries at #DZG2024. At 9 am Philipp Engel (engelbeelab.com/) from U Lausanne will share insights into the interaction between the gut microbiota and social bees.

Good morning! Also for today a short outlook on the programme #DZG2024. Particular highlight: round table discussion at 1pm #IchBinHannah including the main protagonist Amrei Bahr. We conduct a small survey across participants of the various career stages, support us by your active participation!

The thursday at #DZG2024 concludes with a long poster session starting 4:45 pm in the mensa - great opportunity for discussions and exchange and meeting friends. To get oriented, use the poster pitch at 4:15 pm in the audiomax.

From 11:30 on, the day at #DZG20204 will be framed by the section groups. First, the talks from the invited speakers of section groups "Evolution", "Morphology", "Behaviour" and "Physiology", then the section sessions starting at 2 pm.

The second plenary lecture starts at 10 am in the Audimax. Anne-Claire Fabre from U Bern will discuss whether development is a driver or a brake for morphological diversity. For more background, check out her website: anne-claire-fabre.weebly.com

For more information about our first speaker, please see here: www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/ueber-uns/team/rudolf.meier

Good morning. The first autumn cold arrived - so head to the warm audimax for todays plenaries #DZG2024. First speaker at 9.a.m: Rudolf Meier (Natural Science Museum, Berlin) on high-throughput sequencing to identify new animal species without taxon bias.

The second plenary at 10 am is given by Walter Salzburger from U Basel. He will talk about his latest research in the adaptive radiation of cichlids. More about him here: duw.unibas.ch/de/personen/....

The first plenary lecture starts at 9 am in the Audimax. Oleg Simakov from U Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences will give inside into the evolution of animal genomes. For more background, check out his website: neurodevbio.univie.ac.at/simakov-rese...

The day at #DZG2024 will be completed by the Karl Ritter von Frisch- and Werner Rathmayer prize ceremonies, and then at 7pm the public talk by Sylvia Cremer on "teamwork in nature".

Good morning everybody. Look forward to an excitingex day at #DZG2024 packed with science. We'll start with an evolutionary focus in the plenaries, followed by the invited speakers and selected talks from our section groups.

Alexander Kupfer from the Natural History Museum Stuttgart reviewing the history of Zoology at Stuttgart and Hohenheim Universities and the Museum. Names include Willi Hennig, founder of phylogenetic systematics. Hennig worked from 1963 on at the Museum in a provisional building in Ludwigsburg.

Opening ceremony #DZG2024: Johannes Steidle, head of the organising team, welcomes all in Stuttgart and gives background informations

Opening ceremony #DZG2024: welcome note by DZG president Sven Bradler.

Opening ceremony #DZG2024: Norbert Kretschmer rocks the AudiMax

Following the traditions, the first talk, given by Alexander Kupfer from the Natural History Museum Stuttgart, introduces us into the rich history of Zoology in Stuttgart and Hohenheim. #dzg2024

Now the #DZG2024 welcome note by Caroline Ruiner, the vice-president of the Uni Hohenheim which is (by area) the largest Uni of Germany and has won a prize for the most bio-diverse campus in Europe.

#DZG2024 opening ceremony has started, with a great rock song, followed by a welcome note by our president Sven Bradler and the local organiser Johannes Steidle.

Satellite symposium #DZG2024 on #museomics is organised by the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart <www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/>, chaired by Ricardo Pereira and Alexander Kupfer. The full programme can be found at dzg-meeting.de/en/satellite....

Satellite symposium #DZG2024 on chitinous structures is organised by the DZG section group physiology, organised by Hans Merzendorfer and the #DFG SPP2416. Get the full programme at codechi.de/events/

Satellite symposium #DZG2024 on predator-prey interactions is organised by the DZG section group morphology, with chairs Inon Scharf (Tel Aviv U) and Sebastian Büsse (U Greifswald) @morphonews. The full programme can be found at dzg-meeting.de/en/satellite...

Excitement grows as #DZG2024 in Stuttgart is about to start. The opening ceremony will take place on Tuesday 5 pm, yet science starts already tomorrow with satellite symposia on #Predator-prey interactions, chitinous structures in #Ecdysozoa and #museomics.

In Vorfreude auf die #DZG2024 Tagung in Stuttgart ist die Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft jetzt von Twitter auf BlueSky gewechselt. Folgt uns für aktuelle News und Infos zur Tagung, und darüber hinaus.