27th ECA
European Congress of Arachnology
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dates: 2 - 7 of September 2012
The 27th European Congress of Arachnology was held from 2nd – 7th September 2012 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was hosted by Matjaž Kuntner and the EZ Lab.
Scientific and program committee
Matjaž Kuntner, ZRC SAZU, Slovenia
Simona Kralj-Fišer, ZRC SAZU, Slovenia
Ingi Agnarsson, University of Puerto Rico, USA
Christian Kropf, Natural History Museum Berne, Switzerland
Daiqin Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Miquel Arnedo, University of Barcelona, Spain
Organizing committee
Matjaž Gregorič, Nina Vidergar, Tjaša Lokovšek, Ren-Chung Cheng, Klemen Čandek, Olga Kardoš, Martin Turjak, Tea Knapič, Urška Pristovšek, Klavdija Šuen, Miha Pipan.
Plenary speakers
The scientific committee carefully selected four exciting names in arachnid biological research as plenary speakers, paying particular attention to balancing their field of study, geographic origin and gender, but not compromising their scientific excellence:
Jason Bond, Auburn University, USA
Jason, an arachnid systematist, is one of the pioneers of integrative taxonomy, which utilizes complementary datasets for species delimitation from morphology through molecules to geography.
Lecture title: Integrative approaches to delimiting species and taxonomy: lesson learned form highly structured arthropod taxa
Fiona Cross, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Fiona is investigating the predatory and mate-choice behaviour of a spider from East Africa that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood, and how this behaviour may be useful for examining questions relating to animal cognition.
Lecture title: Olfaction-based behaviour in a mosquito-eating jumping spider
Eileen Hebets, University of Nebraska, USA
Eileen is an evolutionary behavioral biologist with topics of her research covering general arachnid behavior, sexual selection, sensory system function, and the evolution of signaling.
Lecture title: Interacting traits and secret senses – arachnids as models for studies of behavioral evolution
Fritz Vollrath, University of Oxford, UK
Fritz is the leading expert on biology and evolution of spider silks and webs, which will be the topic of his plenary lecture.
Lecture title: The secrets of silk
Participants
We hosted 156 participants from 39 countries, who gave 86 oral and 67 poster presentations.
List of participants
| Ingi Agnarsson, USA | Luka Katušić, Croatia | Mauro Paschetta, Italy |
| Kjetil Åkra, Norway | Sean Kelly, USA | Stano Pekar, Czech Republic |
| Huda Al-Beiruti, Israel | Lauren Kerzicnik, USA | Dakota Piorkowski, USA |
| Youcef Alioua, Algeria | Heine Kiesbüy, USA | Miha Pipan, Slovenia |
| Gergely Ambrus, Hungary | Bastian-Jesper Klußmann-Fricke, Germany | Jana Plíšková, Czech republic |
| Miquel Arnedo, Spain | Tea Knapič, Slovenia | Nina Polchaninova, Ukraine |
| Ivalú Ávila, Czech Republic | Ena Kolundžić, Croatia | Urška Pristovšek, Slovenia |
| Elisabeth Bauchhenss, Austria | Marjan Komnenov, Macedonia | Shazia Quasin, India |
| Steffen Bayer, Germany | Christian Komposch, Austria | András Rákóczi, Hungary |
| Theo Blick, Germany | Seppo Koponen, Finland | Jan Raška, Czech Republic |
| Atul Bodkhe, India | Stanislav Korenko, Czech Republic | Günther Raspotnig, Austria |
| Jason Bond, UK | Ondrej Košulič, Czech Republic | Cristina Rheims, Brazil |
| Robert Bosmans, Belgium | Jana Kotrbova, Czech Republic | Miguel Richard, Switzerland |
| Roman Bucher, Germany | Simona Kralj-Fišer, Slovenia | Jasmin Ruch, Australia |
| Klemen Čandek, Slovenia | Henrik Krehenwinkel, Germany | Jens Runge, Germany |
| Manuel Cárdenas Guerrero, Czech Republic | Christian Kropf, Switzerland | Ferenc Samu, Hungary |
| Ľudmila Černecká, Slovakia | Matjaž Kuntner, Slovenia | Miriam Schaider, Austria |
| RC Cheng, Slovenia | Katrin Kunz, Germany | Jutta Schneider, Germany |
| Alberto Chiarle, Italy | Chih-Wei Lai, Taiwan | Paul Selden, USA |
| Fiona Cross, New Zeland | Liana Lasut, Switzerland | Lenka Sentenska, Czech Republic |
| Paula Cushing, USA | Stoyan Lazarov, Bulgaria | Anna Šestáková, Slovakia |
| Charlotte De Busschere, Belgium | Daiqin Li, Singapore | Nataša Sivec, Slovenia |
| Christo Deltshev, Bulgaria | Chen-Pan Liao, Taiwan | Petra Škuljević, Croatia |
| Petr Dolejš, Czech Republic | HsienChun Liao, Taiwan | Klavdija Šuen, Slovenia |
| Mihael Draksic, Croatia | Elisabeth Lipke, Germany | Ning Sun, China |
| Lauren Esposito, USA | Eva Liznarova, Czech republic | Csaba Szinetár, Hungary |
| Mariia Fedoriak, Ukraine | Yun-Jia Lo, Taiwan | Tamas Szuts, Hungary |
| Alexandr Fomichev, Russia | Dmitri Logunov, UK | Ana Lúcia Tourinho, Brazil |
| Petra Fottinger, Germany | Yueh-Sheng Loong, Taiwan | Alessio Trotta, Italy |
| Ivan Franco, Italy | Pamela Loverre, Italy | IMin Tso, Taiwan |
| Holger Frick, Liechtenstein | Yael Lubin, Israel | Lihong Tu, China |
| Eileen Gabel, Germany | Julia Maeder, Germany | Tuncay Türkeş, Turkey |
| Peter Gajdoš, Slovakia | Marija Majer, Denmark | Gabriele Uhl, Germany |
| Wenjin Gan, China | Jagoba Malumbres Olarte, Spain | Alejandro Valdez Mondragón, Mexico |
| Giulio Gardini, Italy | Yuri Marusik, Russia | Peter Van Helsdingen, Netherlands |
| Efrat Gavish-Regev, Israel | Susanne Meese, Germany | Nina Vidergar, Slovenia |
| Seok Ping Goh, Singapore | Wolfgang Merten, Germany | Fritz Vollrath, UK |
| Sara Goodacre, UK | Peter Michalik, Germany | Gregor Wachter, Austria |
| Gordana Grbic, Serbia | Radek Michalko, Czech Republic | André Walter, Australia |
| Matjaž Gregorič, Slovenia | Jeremy Miller, Netherlands | Jakob Walter, Switzerland |
| Leila Gurtner, Switzerland | Plamen Mitov, Bulgaria | Wioletta Wawer, Poland |
| Eileen Hebets, USA | Laura Montes de Oca, Uruguay | Klaas Welke, Germany |
| Arnaud Henrard, Belgium | Majid Moradmand, Germany | Jonas Wolff, Germany |
| Peter Horak, Austria | Muhammad Mukhtar, Pakistan | Hannah Wood, Denmark |
| Samuel Yu-Lung Hsieh, China | Christoph Muster, Germany | Jörg Wunderlich, Germany |
| Pao-Shen Huang, Taiwan | Anna Nekhaeva, Russia | Xin Xu, China |
| Bernhard Huber, Germany | Wolfgang Nentwig, Switzerland | Chang-Cheng Ya, Taiwan |
| Siegfried Huber, Germany | Rainer Neumann, Germany | Boris Zakharov, USA |
| Vladimír Hula, Czech Republic | Jana Niedobová, Czech Republic | Shichang Zhang, Singapore |
| Marco Isaia, Italy | Mikhail Omelko, Russia | Tingting Zhang, China |
| Hayriye Karabulut, Turkey | Hirotsugu Ono, Japan | Pavel Žila, Slovakia |
| Ivo Karaman, Serbia | Vera Opatova, Spain | Stefanie Zimmer, Germany |
Students awards
The scientific committee awarded the following students with monetary and membership (AAS, BAS, Arages) prizes.
Systematics and Evolution
1. prize oral presentation: Henrik Krehenwinkel
2. prize oral presentation: Elisabeth Lipke
3. prize oral presentation: Marija Majer
1. prize poster presentation: Jana Plíšková
2. prize poster presentation: Susanne Meese
3. prize poster presentation: Cheng-Ya Chang
Ecology and Behavior
1. prize oral presentation: Katrin Kunz
2. prize oral presentation: Shazia Quasin
3. prize oral presentation: Reiner Neumann
1. prize poster presentation: Urška Pristovšek
2. prize poster presentation: HsienChun Liao
3. prize poster presentation: Klaas Welke
Proceedings
The Congress Proceedings are published!
The Proceedings of the 27th European Congress of Arachnology, Ljubljana, 2–7 September 2012, appeared in the 45 issue of the 2013 „Arachnologische Mitteilungen“, guest edited by Matjaž Kuntner.
Download the Proceedings as a single PDF
Download individual contributions at: Arachnologische Mitteilungen or ECA website.
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