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Berlin Meeting - Dec 11 2017

Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science

Museum für Naturkunde Seminar Room Z 1108, 1st Floor (number 4 on attached program map)

Organisers - Dr Peter Giere and Dr Mark Hill

Draft Program

Monday 11 December 11 AM - 5 PM

Draft Program PDF

11.00 Opening - Christiane Quaisser (head of collections)
11.10 Introduction - Mark Hill

The Collections

11:30 The Embryological Collection - Peter Giere
11:50 The Hinrichsen Collection - Prof Beate Brand-Saberi
12:10 The Kyoto Collection - Prof Shigehito Yamada
12:30 Lunch

13:30 The Domenech-Mateu Collection - Prof Rosa Mirapeix
13:50 The HDBR and HuDSeN Collection - Dr Steven Lisgo
14:10 The Blechschmidt Collection - Dr Mark Hill
14:30 The Carnegie Collection - Elizabeth Lockett (virtual presentation)
14:50 Coffee

Practical Applications Workshop

15:20 The Practical Aspects of Slide Scanning (Discussion) - Dr Nenad Maricic (Bochum) and Hannes Sydow (Gottingen)
15:40 Zeiss Axio Scan.Z1 - Dr Thorsten Heupel
16:00 The Open Microscopy Environment - Dr Jean-Marie Burel
16:20 The Maastricht embryo project - Prof Wouter Lamers
16:40 Do Pixels matter?" - Digitization efforts at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde Digitisation project) – Bernhard Schurian

Collection/Scanner/Museum - Tour

17:00 Museum für Naturkunde - Embryology Collection

"This collection of developmental stages and reproductive organs of vertebrates is the largest of its kind and was founded by Dutchman Ambrosius Hubrecht (1853-1915) at the end of the 19th century. Its original focus lay on placental mammals."