Copenhagen 2008: 1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology
Copenhagen 2008: 1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology
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2008 年哥本哈根:第一届国际无脊椎动物形态学大会
DOI:
10.1002/jmor.10692
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
C. Nielsen
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C. Nielsen
The 1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology was held at the Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on 17–21 August 2008, with 240 participants. The congress was organized by Claus Nielsen (Zoological Museum, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen), assisted by the following members of an organizing committee: Reinhardt M. Kristensen, Jørgen Olesen, and Martin Vinther Sørensen (all of the Zoological Museum), Anders Garm, Jens Høeg, Andreas Wanninger and Katrine Worsaae (all of the Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen), and Peter Funch (University of Aarhus). Four plenary lectures were given: Frederick W. Harrison (Sylva, NC, USA): The Golden Age of Morphology and Introduction to ‘‘International Society for Invertebrate Morphology’’; Gerhard Scholtz (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany): Embryology and homology; Peter W. H. Holland (University of Oxford, UK): From genomes to morphology; and Mark Q. Martindale (University of Hawaii, USA): The developmental basis for metazoan body plan evolution. Six symposia each with a keynote speaker (and three invited speakers) were held: Thurston Lacalli (University of Canada): Invertebrates as stem group of vertebrates; Steffen Harzsch (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany): Neurophylogeny – the evolution of invertebrate nervous systems; Ian Meinertzhagen (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada): Invertebrate nervous systems; Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard University, USA): Integrating morphology and molecules in the study of evolution; Gregory Edgecombe (The Natural History Museum, London, UK): Palaeomorphology; and Claus Nielsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Spiralian development. A total of 48 contributed papers were associated with the symposia, and 50 contributed papers concerned other subjects. 57 posters were also presented. The first Reinhard Rieger Award was given to Katrine Worsaae (Copenhagen) and Greg Rouse (Scripps Institution, USA) for the manuscript ‘‘Is Diurodrilus an annelid?’’ The Inaugural Meeting and the First General Meeting of ‘‘International Society for Invertebrate Morphology’’ were held on 19 and 21 August, respectively, both chaired by J. Matthias Starck (Munich). Claus Nielsen (Copenhagen) was elected president, Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard) was elected President-elect, Andreas Wanninger (Copenhagen) was elected Secretary, and Anders Garm (Copenhagen) was elected Treasurer. Frederick W. Harrison was elected Honorary Member for his initiative and great value to the congress. Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard) presented an invitation to hold the 2nd Congress at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in 2011, and the invitation was accepted with enthusiasm. We are very grateful to the National Science Research Council, The Knud Højgaard Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation, and the Torben & Alice Frimodt Foundation for their generous support, and to Journal of Morphology (Wiley/Blackwell) for sponsoring the bar at the poster session. We further thank a number of journals which have given us free announcements and the Natural History Museum of Denmark for sponsoring the congress.