The EAE group really enjoyed #DZG2025 in Berlin — great talks, inspiring discussions, and lots of fun!
This year's last plenary talk of the #dzg2025 was from @silkesachse.bsky.social. Her research focuses on the neuroethology of olfactory coding in insects. From flies to locusts.
Not usually into biomechanics but this was one of my favorite talks this #DZG2025 ! Great stuff - e.g. @wolffspider.bsky.social demonstrating how silk can be more flexible and stronger at the same time in certain configurations.
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The #DZG2025 is over and I am filled with great memories and zoological input 🥰
Thanks to the organisers @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social for this ✨️great✨️ conference! 👏👏👏 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Below I share are my favourite facts that I learned ⬇️
Someone please call the ant ambulance!
In our second invited talk, @etf1989.bsky.social highlights his research on wound care behaviour in various ant species.
Another fantastic talk, with impressive videos of these behavioural displays!
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Kicking off our invited talks in the Behavioural Biology section!
First up, @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social shares insights into spider sleep and future directions in this exciting field. 🕷️💤
Fantastic talk with amazing visuals! #DZG2025
Traplining-behavior requires extensive spatial memory which is linked to Mushroom Body expansion in the brain of Heliconius 🦋. @maxfarnworth.bsky.social from @ebablab.bsky.social lab talks about the neural lineages that may underly this anatomical expansion. #dzg2025
Just wrapped up our 3rd behavioural biology session 🚀
We had fascinating talks ranging from male bee behaviour 🐝 to primate sleep patterns 🐒💤
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@nadjageiger.bsky.social
José Borrero from Richard Merrill's lab studies how the visual acuity changes with age in different species of Heliconius butterflies and how it is related to brain morphology and neurogenesis. #dzg2025
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Paula Zimmermann from Michael Hofreiter's lab talks at the #dzg2025 about gene loss associated with loss of vision in Malagasy mole-like tenrecs.
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Chiara Tenneriello, PhD student of @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social talked today about her research on testing whether desert ants have a particle-based magentic compass. #dzg2025
@chiaratenne.bsky.social
Congratulations to Anna Stöckl receiving the prestigious Walther-Arndt award from the German Zoological Society. #dzg2025 @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social 🥳🥂
We just wrapped up our 2nd behavioural biology session 🧠✨ Great chats about clever fish & insects — and how their smarts connect to genetics and the environment.
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@chiaratenne.bsky.social @tyroneluconxiccato.bsky.social
#Insect legs are diverse and it is difficult to compare their workspaces across species. Benedikt Josten presented an approach to analyse their forward #kinematics and workspaces in a unified way at the #morphology sessions of #dzg2025
Copulatory structures of #diplopoda are amazingly complex and Birk Rillich presented their functional #morphology in the species Acanthopetalum carinatum at #dzg2025
Scutigera #centipedes are crazy runners. @iuli-b.bsky.social presented at #dzg2025 how the walking behavior and its underlying #morphology changes throughout postembryonic development
Paul Höller contributed a talk on stem cells in #pycnogonids (sea spiders) at #dzg2025
Pleased to present my research on the drivers of convergent evolution in spider visual systems at the DZG meeting. Great discussions and feedback!
#EvolutionaryBiology #ConvergentEvolution #DivergentEvolution #SpiderVision #Arachnology #DZG #dzg2025
Our first invited speaker for the #morphology section at #dzg2025 is Nicole Grunstra from Vienna providing us with amazing morphological insights into mammalian and particularly human evolution
Join us for our
Subject group meeting Evolutionary Biology
04:30 pm
Room : Hörsaal 1a
Anyone is welcome to hear about what we have been up to but also help shape the section. #DZG2025
Thanks again to our marvelous invited speakers Marisol Dominguez and Ruth Archer, who both gave fascinating talks today. #DZG2025
Patrick Schultheiss closed the neurobiology session and talked about different guiding searching strategies in homing 🐜, from path integration to visual memory.
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Fascinating talk by @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social at the #dzg2025 about her research on the magnetic compass of 🐜.
Nina Schwartz from @einatcouzin.bsky.social lab talks @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social about how the nutritional state of locusts affects the olfactory response to leafs and conspecifics. #dzg2025
Such a fun session, thanks to everyone who came to my talk 🌞 If you’re intrested in multimodal courtship, vibrational or chemical signals and parasitoid wasps come talk to me today or tomorrow 🐝🪰
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Great start to day 2 of #DZG2025 with babbling bats and Mirjam Knörnschild of @mfnberlin.bsky.social!
This morning @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social, Mirjam Knörnschild gave a fantastic talk about social communication in Saccopteryx bilineata 🦇 including dialects, acoustically-based individual recognition.
@berlinbatlab.bsky.social
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Com join us after the keynote talks in Hörsaal 1b for our next evolutionary biology talks at #DZG2025. It's packed with odors, niches and spiders....
A picture of Magdalena at the podium in front of a slide showing species used in regulatory guidance documents
Really enjoyed Magdalena Mairs talk at #DZG2025 on data driven science and the importance of statistics
Francesco Nienhaus presented #biomechanics and #morphology of #Phasmatodea on eggs and antennae related to intriguing aerial egg transfer of Stick and Leaf Insects at #dzg2025