Homepage of 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology is live now! (March 5th 2019)
It is a great pleasure to announce the launch of the website of ICIM-5.
The Department of Integrative Zoology looks forward to hold ICIM5, the 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, in Vienna 1,5 years from now in August 2020.
SCIENCE DAY BIOLOGY 2019 (March 1st, 2019)
Tuesday March 12th2019, 09:15 (Programme)
Althanstraße 14 UZA 1, Lecture Hall 2
Key Note
Dr. Pawel Burkhardt, University of Bergen, Norway
"The evolutionary origin of synaptic signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation"
Gedenkfeier für em.o.Univ.Prof.Dr.Dr. Friedrich Schaller (September 5th, 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
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.
Summer Term 2019
Tuesdays, 10-11:30 hrs, SR 3, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien
June 18th, 2019
Biologische Phänomene in den Marchauen - Freilanddidaktische Informationstafeln (Abstract)
Simone Jaritz
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
June 4th 2019
The embryonic development of the fresh-water bryozoan Plumatella casmiana (Abstract)
Julian Bibermair
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Expression of mesodermal genes in the polyplacophoran mollusc Acanthochitona crinita (Abstract)
Attila Sachslehner
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Mesoderm & muscle formation in the quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis) (Abstract)
Stephan Schulreich
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
A characterisation of the defense secretion of centipedes (Abstract)
Margret Eckhard
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
May 28th, 2019
The nervous system of cheilostome bryozoans (Abstract)
Jakob Prömer
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
May 21st, 2019
Three-dimensional investigation of miniaturized insect visual systems (Abstract)
Stefan Fischer
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
May 14th, 2019
What happens with the blood when the insect gets wounded (Abstract)
Kostya Kornev
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
Influence of androgens on the gestural signals of the foot-flagging frogs Staurois parvus (Abstract)
Martina Grabner
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
May 7th, 2019
Transport and foraging mechanism in social wasps (Vespidae) (Abstract)
Kenneth Kuba
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
April 30th, 2019
Molecular Phylogenetics of Scaphopoda (Abstract)
Nikolaus Helmer
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
April 9th, 2019
How to quantify biodiversity impacts?
Need for a unified measure and universally applicable protocol (Abstract)
Peter Zulka
Federal Environment Agency, Vienna, Austria
April 2nd, 2019
Neuroanatomy of Chelicerata – current progress and future directions (Abstract)
Torben Stemme
Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm University, Germany
March 26th, 2019
Phylogeny of the Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius based on mitochondrial marker sequences (Abstract)
Paul Wolf
Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria
Does yawn duration predicts neurological measures in birds and mammals? (Abstract)
Margarita Hartlieb
Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
March 19th, 2019
Deep time and deep seas: Enigmatic echinoderms and what bizarre animals can tell us about life on Earth (Abstract)
Rich Mooi
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA
March 5th, 2019
General Information
Andreas Wanninger
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Winter Term 2018
Tuesdays, 10-11:30 hrs, SR 3, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien
January 29th, 2019
Reproduction biology of Trochids (Gastropoda) (Abstract)
Simone Raus
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Whip spider reproduction and genital morphology (Abstract)
Andreas Löscher
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Expression of mesodermal genes in the polyplacophoran mollusc Acanthochitona crinita (Abstract)
Attila Sachslehner
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
January 22nd, 2019
What we do in the Sea of Japan? Molluscs, of course! (Abstract)
Gerhard Steiner & Emanuel Redl
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Tagfalter-Monitoring in Wien (Abstract)
Franziska Puhm
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
January 15h, 2019
Bringing light into the evolution of an enigmatic fish. Comparative analyses of cavernicolous and surface dwelling populations of Garra barreimiae (Abstract)
Sandra Kirchner
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Vascular budding and the evolution of coloniality in styelid Ascidians (Abstract)
Stefania Gutierrez
University of São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil
January 8th, 2019
Annual Lab Safety Instruction
Livia Rudoll
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
December 11th, 2018
Tunnels inside snail shells: modern techniques help classification (Abstract)
Barna Páll-Gergely
Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
December 4th, 2018
Sensing from both ends? (Abstract)
Matthes Kenning
University of Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum
November 27th, 2018
Influence of androgens on the gestural signals of the foot-flagging frogs Staurois parvus (Abstract)
Martina Grabner
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Glowing mucus – Characterisation of the unique defence secretion of Latia neritoides (Gastropoda) (Abstact)
Sophie Greistorfer
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
November 20th, 2018
Ecological and genetic link in evolutionary transit of freshwater to marine taxa (Abstract)
Nikola Koletic
Department of Biology, University of Zagreb
Life of the ctenostome Bryozoan Pherusella cf. brevituba (Abstact)
Sebastian Decker
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
November 13th, 2018
Pollination of runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus) by honey bees (Apis mellifera) in a greenhouse (Abstract)
Barbara Riegler
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
Immunofluorescence staining in cardiovascular implants (Abstact)
Jakob Prömer
Department of Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna
November 6th, 2018
General Information
Andreas Wanninger
Department of Integrative Zoology
October 30th, 2018
A gordian knot – life cycle and biology of horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) (Abstract)
Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa
Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg
October 23rd, 2018
General Information
Andreas Wanninger
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
October 16th, 2018
Morphology and evolution of sensory and processing systems in mandibulate arthropods and of centipede ultimate legs (Abstract)
Andy Sombke
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
October 9th, 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 12th, 2018
Embryonic development of phylactolaemate bryozoans. (Abstract)
Julian Bibermair
Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna
June 5th, 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 15th, 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
May 8th, 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 24th, 2018
The invertebrate Phallusia mammillata as a marine model for toxicity screening. (Abstract)
Ievgeniia Gazo
University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
April 17th, 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 10th, 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 20th, 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 13th, 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 6th, 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)
Summer Term 2017, Programme, Abstract Booklet
Winter Term 2016: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Summer Term 2016: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Winter Term 2015: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Summer Term 2015: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Winter Term 2014: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Summer Term 2014: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Winter Term 2013: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Summer Term 2013: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Winter Term 2012: Programme, Abstract Booklet
Summer Term 2012: Programme
Winter Term 2011: Programme
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 27th,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 29th,2016, 17:00
in HS 2, UZA1, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien
Habilitation Defensio Thomas Schwaha (April 2nd 2019)
Thomas Schwaha
Soft body morphology of the colonial aquatic phylum Bryozoa
Defensio on Tuesday, April 9th 2019, 11:30
Seminarraum 3 (SR3), UZA1 Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna
PhD Defensio André Luiz de Oliveira (January 14th 2019)
André Luiz de Oliveira
Developmental genes, proneuropeptides and peptide hormones in Mollusca: an in-silico approach
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger
Public Defensio on Monday, January 14th 2019, 13:00 (Invitation)
Seminarraum 3 (SR3), UZA1 Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna
PhD Defensio Iris Starnberger (March 8th 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 26th 2018, 10:00 (Invitation)
Konferenzraum Zoologie, UZA1 Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna
PhD Defensio Maik Scherholz (February 13th 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 27th 2018, 14:00
Konferenzraum Zoologie, UZA1 Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna
PhD Defensio Demetra Rakosy (December 14th 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).
PhD Defensio Emanuel Redl (October 25th 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
PhD Defensio Andreas Kleewein (August 16th 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 31st, 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
PhD 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
PhD Defensio Julia Bauder (June 3rd, 2015)
PhD Defensio Florian Karolyi (June 1st, 2015)
PhD Defensio Petra Sumastgutner (December 15th, 2014)
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)
PhD 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
PhD 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
PhD 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
Departmental Seminar Winter Term 2018 - Abstracts online! March 4th, 2018)
The abstract booklet of the Departmental Seminar of Integrative Zoology (Winter Term 2018) is now available as PDF.
For the printed version of the booklet please contact Sonja Matus.
Departmental Seminar Summer Term 2018 - Abstracts online! (September 19th, 2018)
The abstract booklet of the Departmental Seminar of Integrative Zoology (Summer Term 2018) is now available as PDF.
For the printed version of the booklet please contact Sonja Matus.
Anita Gamauf passed away (September 3rd 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 11th 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:
Friedrich Schaller passed away on May 5th 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 5th, 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 13th, 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 7th, 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 5th, 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 8th, 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 14th, 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 4th 2017.
Departmental Seminar Winter Term 2016 - Abstracts online! (February 22nd, 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 3rd, 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 7th, 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.
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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)
Abstracts of the talks at the Departmental Seminar of the Department of Integrative Zoology in Summer Term 2014 are available as PDF.
for Booklet contact Sonja Matus
Leistungsbericht und Wissensbilanz 2013 (July 7, 2014)
Leistungsbericht & Wissensbilanz 2013
der Universität Wien
Available online
Masterposition available
October 2013
Olfactory orientation and spatial learning in a Neotropical frog Allobates femoralis under laboratory conditions (Information)
Supervision by Walter Hödl and Andrius Pašukonis (Contact)