Green Museum – How to Practice What We Preach? 2016 SPNHC Conference
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GREEN MUSEUM – How to PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH? 2016 SPNHC conference 31st Annual Meeting June 20–25, 2016 Berlin, Germany 2nd, revised edition GREEN MUSEUM – How to PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH? 2016 SPNHC conference Access to research infrastructures SYNTHESYS offers unique research opportunities to scientists from all over Europe. Access is provided to: • European collections comprising more than half of the world’s natural history specimens st • world class libraries 31 Annual Meeting • state-of-the-art facilities including imaging, chemical, and molecular laboratories of the Society for the • support from in-house scientists, including researchers, facilities staff, and collections managers Participation is free of charge and is provided on the basis of scientific excellence of a proposal, Preservation of Natural reviewed by a Selection Panel. Priority is given to new users. A typical project is 1-6 weeks in duration. History Collections The 18 partner institutions offer access via 11 national Taxonomic Access Facilities (TAFs). AT-TAF: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna DK-TAF: University of Copenhagen BE-TAF: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural ES-TAF: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales June 20–25, 2016 Sciences, Brussels; Royal Museum for & Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid Central Africa, Tervuren FR-TAF: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CZ-TAF: Národní Muzeum, Prague Paris Berlin, Germany DE-TAF: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches GB-TAF: Natural History Museum, London; Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin; Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Senckenberg Gesellschaft für HU-TAF: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Naturforschung, Frankfurt, Dresden, Budapest Görlitz and Müncheberg; Staatliches NL-TAF: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart SE-TAF: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm SYNTHESYS will provide finance for: research costs per diem contribution towards living costs international travel and accommodation logistical support at the host institution Contact SYNTHESYS for details of the online application process and deadlines: Annual Calls for proposals in October (2013 - 2016) Visits will be scheduled between January 2014 and August 2017 SYNTHESYS is a project supporting an email: [email protected] integrated European infrastructure for natural history collections funded via the EC Research www.synthesys.info Infrastructure Activity, FP7 Programme Welcome 4 from your Berlin hosts 4 from the SPNHC 2016 LOC 6 from the President of SPNHC 8 About SPNHC 10 Travel Grant Recipients and Mentors 12 Tradeshow and Sponsors 14 General Conference Information 16 SPNHC 2016 General Information 16 Contents Locations 22 Field Trips 26 Conference programme 28 Schedule at a Glance 28 Conference Programme at andel's Hotel 34 List of Poster Presentations 54 Abstracts 58 Keynote Lectures 60 Symposia and Panel Discussions 62 Workshops 68 Oral and Poster Abstracts 72 Imprint 200 SPNHC 2016 – Welcome SPNHC 2016 – Welcome The Museum für Naturkunde and the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin welcome you to the 31st annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and the 2nd Global Genome Biodiversity Network conference. We are proud to be the first in Germany to host these events, where professionals from natural history collections originating from 31 countries come together and share their knowledge, discuss ideas and develop projects. Berlin, the largest city in Germany with its history both in politics and science is an exciting choice for this event and we wish you a very pleasant stay during the congress week. Sharing a mutual history of scientific research and serving the community in the education of the general public, the two institutions, the Museum and the Garden, pursuit similar purposes but have different origins. Whereas the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde were founded as a central part of the new Berlin University (Alma mater berolinensis, now Humboldt University Berlin) in 1810, the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin predated the University by more than a century. It can be traced back to the kitchen garden of the Berlin palace of 1679 via a model agricultural garden in a then suburban location (the Kleistpark Schöneberg) to the present location in Dahlem. Due to the growth of the collections and the scientific impact, both institutions had to relocate at the turn of the last century. The zoological, anatomical, paleontological, and mineralogical collections of the Berlin University (renamed Friedrich Wilhelm Universität in 1828) were united in 1889 and established the Museum für Naturkunde at its present Invalidenstraße location. There, the collections have grown tremendously, now encompassing more than 30 million specimens, the largest number of specimens in one location for any German natural history institution. In 2009, the Museum WELCOME für Naturkunde left the Humboldt University and joined the Leibniz Association, a science organization which – due to the national and international status and importance of its from your Berlin hosts institutions – is jointly funded by the Federation and the Länder. The Botanic Garden moved in 1910 to its present location in order to accommodate the growing Herbarium, a Museum and the living collection. Together with the foundation of institutes of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft it created a science campus in Dahlem in the south-west of Berlin. With 20,000 different species of plants on 43 hectares the Berlin Botanic Garden and Museum houses the largest botanical collections in Germany, today complemented by a DNA bank and a seed bank. Its location in the American Sector of post World War II Berlin led to an affiliation with the Freie Universität Berlin at its establishment in 1948. There, the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin now has the status of a Zentraleinrichtung. Both institutions have closely worked together in many projects and initiatives and now have joined forces to host this year's SPNHC and GGBN meetings. Each conference has an exciting program with keynote lectures, symposia, demo camps and workshops along with social activities where both conferences come together. We wish you a successful conference, exciting field trips and interesting workshops – welcome to Berlin! Professor Johannes Vogel, Ph.D. Professor Dr. Thomas Borsch Director General Director Museum für Naturkunde Botanic Garden and Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Botanical Museum Berlin Biodiversity Science Freie Universität Berlin 6 7 SPNHC 2016 – Welcome SPNHC 2016 – Welcome It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Germany and the City of Berlin. SPNHC 2016 Local Organizing This is the first time that the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections has Committee come to meet in Germany. The Museum für Naturkunde and the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin are proud to host the 31st annual meeting of the Society. Delegates from more than 30 countries have made their trip to SPNHC 2016. To all of you a very warm welcome to Team MfN Berlin. – Herzlich Willkommen in Berlin! Peter Giere Christiane Quaisser This year’s theme “Green Museum – How to practice what we preach?” reflects in many ways Daniela Schwarz the challenges and changes natural history collections are facing at the moment. Manja Voss In a world of climate change and ever decreasing biodiversity, sustainability should be the criterion that determines all planning and decisions, ranging from field work to construction Team BGBM projects, from ethical aspects to cost-benefit analyses. In practice this often is compromised Eva Häffner by constraints beyond the control of the institution, be it monetary, legal or other. Lena Kempener The rapidly growing digital world has long reached the natural history collections. Digitization Cornelia Löhne is the key word for opening up hidden treasures and information – for scientific questions as Patricia Rahemipour well as societal challenges, and a fascinated public. Digitization changes the way of how we look at collections and how we work with them. It leads to new users and uses and novel types Team Agentur Konsens of collections along with new requirements. Digital mobilization of collections from processes Karlheinz Blackert to databases and standards for their integration in research and education has become a whole Susanne Kessler world in its own. This is also reflected by the SPNHC 2016 conference. Kirsten Merdanovic The same is true for new analytical methods and research fields such as molecular Constanze Sürken systematics. DNA and tissue collections (so called ‘cold archives’) are standard in research institution holding collections. The work of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) HERZLICH WILLKOMMEN! focuses on standards and best practice of these collections and the exchange and use of We would like thank all who material according to international regulations. It was more than logic to bring together both have contributed to the societies for their meetings to stimulate exchange and common understanding. success of the SPNHC 2016 Welcome from the SPNHC 2016 conference! Local Organizing Committee A conference of this size would not be possible without the support from many sides. It all starts at the hosting institutions. Without an enthusiastic home base from director to student it simply would not be possible to organize a SPNHC conference. 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