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Gedenkfeier für em.o.Univ.Prof.Dr.Dr. Friedrich Schaller (September 5^th, 2018)

am Freitag, 28.9. 2018 um 17 Uhr ct.
Hörsaal 1 des Biozentrums, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien (Einladung)

Anmeldung wird bis 9.September 2018 gebeten
anita.morth@univie.ac.at
+43 1 4277/76301

Avian Biodiversity Mini-Symposium, December 18th, 2014

Thursday 18.12.2014, 13:30-17:00, COSB Seminarraum (UZA1, Althanstrasse 14)

13:30 Leonida Fusani “Migratory decisions in small passerines: influence of physiological and seasonal factors”
14:15 Dan Chamberlain “Shifting habitats in the Alps and potential consequences for birds”
15:00 Break
15:30 Herbert Hoi "Sex and the City: sexual preferences under crowded breeding conditions"
16:15 Toni Laaksonen “Land use and birds of prey: changing conservation landscape”

Symposium anlässlich der Pensionierung von Walter Hödl

29. Oktober 2013, 15:00
Hörsaal 1, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

Anmeldung bis spätestens 04. Oktober 2013 (eva.ringler@univie.ac.at)
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Global Systematics from 18. - 22 february in Vienna 2013

for more information visit the website http://biosysteu.univie.ac.at
or download the flyer here.

Department Inauguration

On April 19th the Department of Integrative Zoology will be officially inaugurated. Please find the program here.

Departmental Seminars Integrative Zoology

Winter Term 2018
Tuesdays, 10-11:30 hrs, SR 3, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

October 9^th, 2018

Of bored mollusks and boring bryozoans (Abstract)
Thomas Schwaha
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

Summer Term 2018 (Programme, Abstract Booklet)
Tuesdays, 10-11:30 hrs, SR 3, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

June 12^th, 2018

Embryonic development of phylactolaemate bryozoans. (Abstract)
Julian Bibermair
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

June 5^th, 2018

Phylogeny, morphology and pollen preferences of five Austrian species in the Colletes succinctus group (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (Abstract)
Katharina Zenz
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

May 15^th, 2018

Biologie und Ökologie der beiden nah verwandten Orthopteren-Arten Barbitistes constrictus und Barbitistes serricauda im Nationalpark Thayatal.
Lisa Liska
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

Biologie und Ökologie der beiden nah verwandten Orthopteren-Arten Barbitistes constrictus und Barbitistes serricauda im Kamptal.
Lisa Reiss
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

Abstract

May 8^th, 2018

E-Learning und partizipative Lehr- und Lernkonzepte bei „Morphologie und Funktion der Tiere" - ein hochschuldidaktisches Konzept. (Abstract)
Elena Kriegl
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

Verbreitung und Bestandsschätzung des Mauerseglers (Apus apus) in Wien 2017. (Abstract)
Thomas Starkmann
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

April 24^th, 2018

The invertebrate Phallusia mammillata as a marine model for toxicity screening. (Abstract)
Ievgeniia Gazo
University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

April 17^th, 2018

The influence of group dynamics on the hunting behaviour of individual archer fish (Toxotes chatareus): a laboratory analysis. (Abstract)
Michael Pollirer
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

Thermische Anpassung durch Selektion beim Fieberfisch (Gambusia holbrooki). (Abstract)
Helmut Kratochvil
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

April 10^th, 2018

The antennal circulatory organ of the blow-fly Calliphora vomitoria. (Abstract)
Clemens Brenner
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

Circulatory organs in the cerci of polyneopteran insects. (Abstract)
Dominik Reischl
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

March 20^th, 2018

Avoidance of inbreeding through increased migratory activity: A comparative study of two populations of Salamandra salamandra in the Vienna Woods. (Abstract)
Stephan Burgstaller
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna

March 13^th, 2018

Hazards in the Urban Jungle: Managing Human-wildlife Conflicts of Crowned Eagles. (Abstract)
Shane McPherson
School of Life Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

March 6^th, 2018

Feldbestimmungsschlüssel für die Kurzfühlerheuschrecken (Caelifera) Österreichs. (Abstract)
Markus Sehnal
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria

Former seminars (for a printed versions of abstract booklets contact Sonja Matus)

Talks

International Kerner von Marilaun Symposium 2017
INSECTS AND FLOWERS: New Views of an Old Partnership (Programme)

20.10.2017 9.00 - 18.00 Uhr
Festsaal der ÖAW, Dr. Iganz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien

9:20–10:10 Hannes Paulus (Universität Wien, Österreich)
Allgemeine Fragen und Antworten eines speziellen Falles: Mustererkennung und Artbildung bei der Bestäubung von Orchideen (Ophrys)
10:30–11:10 Harald Krenn (Universität Wien, Österreich)
Die wundersamen Mundwerkzeuge für die Nahrungsaufnahme der Insekten

Andreas Wanninger
Die Metazoen:
Fiktion, Fakten und Fortschritte in der Evolution tierischer Vielfalt

phylogenie kontroversiell
at the Natural History Museum Vienna
on June 27^th,2017, 14:00 – 15:30 at the "Kurssaal" of the Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7 (side entrance) 1010 Vienna

Andreas Wanninger
Wie flexibel ist Evolution?

Talk at the ZooBot (Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft Österreich)
on November 29^th,2016, 17:00
in HS 2, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

Public Presentations

Public Defensio Iris Starnberger (March 8^th 2018)

Iris Starnberger
The Role of the Vocal Sac in multimodal Signalling:
An explorative Study in African Reed Frogs (Anura: Hyperoliidae).
Advisors: Doris Preininger & Walter Hödl

Public Defensio on Monday, March 26^th 2018, 10:00 (Invitation)
Konferenzraum Zoologie, UZA1 Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna

Public Defensio Maik Scherholz (February 13^th 2018)

Maik Scherholz
Inferring the Evolutionary History of Aculiferan Mollusks by Means of Comparative Myogenesis and Gene Expression Studies
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

Public Defensio on Tuesday, February 27^th 2018, 14:00
Konferenzraum Zoologie, UZA1 Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna

Public Defensio Demetra Rakosy (December 14^th 2017)

Demetra Rakosy
Evolution and diversification of flower traits in the sexually deceptive genus Ophrys (Orchidaceae): insights from the Eucera pollinated Ophrys tenthredinifera complex.
Advisor: Hannes F. Paulus

Public Defensio on Monday, 18. December 2017, 14:00 (Invitation)
Lecture Hall Botany (Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Rennweg 14, 1030, Vienna).

Public Defensio Emanuel Redl (October 25^th 2017)

Emanuel Redl
A multi-level approach to the evolutionary development of aplacophoran mollusks.
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger

Public Defensio on Friday, 3. November 2017, 20:00 (Invitation)
Seminarraum 3, UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

Public Defensio Andreas Kleewein (August 16^th 2016)

Andreas Kleewein
Allochthone Wasserschildkröten in Österreich: Ökologische, ethologische, biogeografische und naturschutzrelevante Aspekte.
Advisor: Walter Hödl

Public Defensio on Monday, September 12th 2016, 10:00am
COSB Konferenzraum, UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

Diplomprüfung Lehramt (May 31^st, 2016)

Michaela Punz
Department of Integrative Zoology

Monday, June 20th 2016, 11:00
COSB Conference Room (Room 1.015), UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

Examiners:
Biologie und Umweltkunde: ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Harald Krenn
Geschichte, Sozialkunde und Politische Bildung: ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Meta Niederkorn

Diplomarbeit:
Was erzählen Skelette über die Lebensweise von Tieren? Eine Bearbeitung der ausgestellten Säugetierskelette im UZA 1 Wien inklusive fachdidaktischer Wissensvermittlung zu Lebensraum, Fortbewegung und Ernährung.
Advisor: Harald Krenn

Public Defensio Andrius Pašukonis (September 7th 2015)

Andrius Pašukonis
The role of learning in the spatial behavior of neotropical poison frogs (Dendrobatidae)
Advisor: Walter Hödl

Public Defensio on Monday, September 14th 2015, 11:00 am
COSB Konferenzraum, UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

Master's Defensio Vanessa Düster (September 7th 2015)

Vanessa Düster
Similar body size, variable proboscis length – comparison of mouthpart morphology of two euglossine bee species (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini)
Advisor: Harald Krenn

Public Defensio on Wednesday, September 9th 2015, 10:00 am
COSB Konferenzraum, UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna

Defensio Julia Bauder (June 3rd, 2015)

Julia Bauder
Extremely long butterfly proboscides: form, function and evolution.
Advisor: Harald Krenn

Public Defensio on Wednesday, 17. June 2015, 10:00
Konferenzraum COSB (Zoologie), UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

Defensio Florian Karolyi (June 1st, 2015)

Florian Karolyi
Flower handling and suction feeding:
Adaptations for nectar-feeding in long proboscid flies of South Africa.
Advisor: Harald Krenn

Public Defensio on Tuesday, 9. June 2015, 17:00
Konferenzraum COSB (Zoologie), UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

Defensio Petra Sumastgutner (December 15th, 2014)

Petra Sumasgutner
Costs and benefits in the settlement decisions of the Eurasian Kestrel in human altered-landscapes.
Advisor: Harald Krenn

Public Defensio on Friday, 19. December 2014, 10:00
Konferenzraum COSB (Zoologie), UZA1 Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

Master´s Defensio Demetra Rakosy (June 6, 2014)

Demetra Rakosy
Orchideen - Botanische Juwelen der Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica
Advisor: Hannes Paulus

Public Defensio on Tuesday, 24. June 2014, 11:00
Biodiversitätszentrum, am Rennweg 14, Übungsraum 1

pubished in:
Orchids, Botanical Jewels of the Golfo Dulce Region, Costa Rica.
WeissenhoferA, Huber W, Weber A, Wanek W, Gegenbauer C, Rakosy D, Pupulin F & Speckmaier M.
Tropenstation La Gamba (2013)

Defensio Philine Werner (January 22, 2014)

Philine Werner
Geographic range limits and ecological niches of parapatric land salamanders - a case study for the European Alps
Advisor: Walter Hödl

Public Defensio on Wednesday, 5. February 2014, 16:00
N1, Campus I, Fachbereich VI (Raum- und Umweltwissenschaften)
Universität Trier, Campus I: Universitätsring 15, D-54296 Trier

Public Presentation of PhD Projects

on Thursday, December 19, 2013, 10:00-11:30
Bespechungszimmer, Department of Integrative Zoology, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien

Daniela Bartel
The most ancient splits in insect phylogeny
Supervisor: Günther Pass

Alexander Böhm
Photoreception and circadian rhythm entrainment in basal hexapods
Supervisor: Günther Pass

Kerstin Stejskal
Die Funktion von Lippenmuster in der Bestäuberanlockung bei Sexualtäuschorchideen
Supervisors: Hannes F. Paulus, Johannes Spaethe

Defensio Linde Morawetz

Linde Morawetz
Verarbeitung komplexer visueller Reize bei Bienen
Advisor: Johannes Spaethe

Public Defensio on Friday, 6. December, 2013, 10:30
Conference Room of the COSB, UZA1, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien

Defensio Markus Dirnwöber

On the association of coral-dwelling gobies (genius Gobiodon) and their Acropora host corals in the northern Red Sea.
(Invitation)

Tuesday, 7.10.2013, 14:30, SR 3, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien

Miscellaneous

Departmental Seminar Summer Term 2018 - Abstracts online! (September 19^th, 2018)

The abstract booklet of the Departmental Seminar of Integrative Zoology (Sommer Term 2018) is now available as PDF.

For the printed version of the booklet please contact Sonja Matus.

Anita Gamauf passed away (September 3^rd 2018)

We regret to inform you that our dear colleague, PD Dr. Anita Gamauf, had passed away on August, 22nd, 2018.

Anita Gamauf was curator of the bird collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna and associated with the Department of Integrative Zoology by her courses in ornithology.

Our deepest condolences go to her family and friends.
Death notice

The Citizen Science project of mapping nest-sites of Common Swift (Apus apus) in Vienna gets in its second season (May 11^th 2018)

For all those who are interested in participating please attend one of the following field trips where the methodology is explained in the field. Field trips with methodology training:

14. May 2018, 19:00, U4/U6 Spittelau, meeting point next to Ströck
15. May 2018, 19:00, U3/U4 Wien Mitte-Landstraße, meeting point at corner Landstraßer Hauptstraße/Invalidenstraße
16. May 2018, 19:00, U3 Ottakring, meeting point at exit Thaliastraße
17. May 2018, 19:00, U4 Pilgramgasse, meeting point at exit Pilgrambrücke
18. May 2018, 19:00, U3 Ottakring, meeting point at exit Thaliastraße

Friedrich Schaller passed away on May 5^th 2018, aged 97.

It is with deep regret that we must announce the decease of
Univ. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Friedrich Schaller.
From 1968 to 1984, Schaller was a full professor of zoology at the University of Vienna. He died in Vienna on May 5^th, 2018.

In memoriam Friedrich Schaller (1920–2018)

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Nachruf für Univ. Prof. Dr. Friedrich Schaller

Mit tiefer Betroffenheit müssen wir das Ableben von Univ. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Friedrich Schaller bekannt geben, der im 98 Lebensjahr am 5. Mai 2018 in seiner Wohnung in Wien verstorben ist. Er starb in seinem 98. Lebensjahr

Sein unermüdliches Engagement in diesen Jahren bewirkte eine wesentliche fachliche Erweiterung der Zoologie in Wien und war entscheidend für die Errichtung des Biozentrums Althanstraße. Sein wissenschaftliches Werk ist vor allem mit der Entdeckung der indirekten Spermatophorenübertragung bei verschiedenen Boden-Arthropoden und bioakustischer Forschung an tropischen Fröschen und Fischen verbunden.

Mit Schaller verlieren wir eine Person, die in seinem Leben und akademischen Wirken stets von Humanismus und Aufklärung geleitet war. In diesem Sinne ist auch sein großer Einsatz für die Ausbildung der Studierenden des Lehramtsstudiums Biologie zu verstehen.

Ausführlicher Nachruf von Hannes Paulus

Departmental Seminar Winter Term 2017 - Abstracts online! (March 13^th, 2018)

The abstract booklet of the Departmental Seminar of Integrative Zoology (Winter Term 2017) is now available as PDF.

For the printed version of the booklet please contact Sonja Matus.

Irene Zweimüller passed away (March 7^th, 2018)

Unfortunately, we must regretfully inform you of the passing of Dr. Irene Zweimüller.

In recent years Dr. Irene Zweimüller has been an associate coworker
at the Department of Integrative Zoology.

Our deepest condolences go to her family and friends.

Lisa-Maria Schmidt selected for the "Natur Talente"-Program (February 5^th, 2018)

Lisa-Maria Schmidt
MSc Student, Department of Integrative Zoology, Advisor: Gerhard Steiner

33 Master and PhD students, as well as graduates in the field of natural sciences and life sciences, nominated by their faculties, have been selected to join the High-Potential Program "NaturTalente" of uniport. Lisa-Maria Schmidt, a master student at the Department of Integrative Zoology, is one of those selected talents.

Departmental Seminar Summer Term 2017 - Abstracts online! (September 8^th, 2017)

The abstract booklet of the Departmental Seminar of Integrative Zoology (Summer Term 2017) is now available as PDF.

For the printed version of the booklet please contact Sonja Matus.

Postdoc Position available (June 14^th, 2017)

The University of Vienna seeks to fill the position of an
University Assistant at the Department of Integrative Zoology.

For further information see the advertisement at the Job Centre of the University of Vienna.
The application deadline is July 4^th 2017.

Departmental Seminar Winter Term 2016 - Abstracts online! (February 22^nd, 2017)

The abstract booklet of the Departmental Seminar of Integrative Zoology (Winter Term 2016) is now available as PDF.

For the printed version of the booklet please contact Sonja Matus.

Lab Manager Position available (February 3^rd, 2017)

Laboratory Manager
for the Molecular Laboratories
at the Department of Integrative Zoology

For further information see the advertisement at the Job Centre of the University of Vienna. The application deadline is 22 February 2017.

Tenure-Track Position available (December 7^th, 2016)

Tenure-Track Position for the field of
Evolutionary Morphology

For further information see the advertisement at the Job Centre of the University of Vienna. The application deadline is 28 February 2017.

Luitfried Salvini-Plawen passed away on 22. October 2014, aged 75.

He was professor at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences and former Head of the Institute of Zoology. After his retirement in 2004 he stayed active in publishing and teaching. The scientific community has lost an outstanding invertebrate zoologist, his unexpected death leaves a painful gap.

In memoriam Luitfried Salvini-Plawen (1939-2014)

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Luitfried Salvini-Plawen was one of the most prominent and influential personalities in malacology during the past decades. His main interest was the early evolution of molluscs and the phylogenetic relationships of the major groups. He was one of the few experts in aplacophoran morphology and systematics and has described about half the number of known species of Solenogastres. His profound expertise resulted in intense international cooperations with, e.g., Spanish, Norwegian, and Japanese colleagues and institutions. Since the 1980s, Luitfried Salvini-Plawen and his students played a major role in revolutionising and modernising gastropod systematics and the understanding of their evolutionary history. The key to success was the integrating results from various fields such as electron microscopy and developmental biology in a broad comparative approach using phylogenetic methods.

Luitfried Salvini-Plawen´s biological field of action, however, extended beyond molluscs. He considered Rupert Riedl and Erich Reisinger most influential during his early career – both directed him to and familiarised him with the marine interstitial fauna. Not surprisingly, he worked on the interstitial Solenogastres, acochlidian and philinoglossid opisthobranchs, but also on the systematics and development of cnidarians, kamptozoans and holothurians. His broad overviews on the convergent evolution of eyes and coelomic cavities in animals received much attention and have sparked renewed research efforts in the respective fields. The former was achieved together with Ernst Mayr who had invited him as guest professor to Havard University in 1975. His research is published in about 150 papers.

In his spare time, Luitfried graduated in History, with special focus on medieval history of northern Italy and Southern Tyrol, a region he felt deeply rooted in. His knowledge in cultural history and languages was impressive and, being an educated singer, his love for music was profound.

The scientific community has lost an outstanding zoologist, his unexpected death leaves a painful gap. He will, however, remain an inspirational example of intellectual acuteness and scientific conduct.

Gerhard Steiner

Departmental Seminar Summer Term 2014 - Abstracts online! (October 1, 2014)