Last month I attended the International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology in Berlin, Germany. This has quickly become my favorite meeting. A lot of really strong research was presented here and it was really nice to catch up with a lot of old friends. This ICIM had a very strong molluscan showing with a pleasantly surprising majority of the mollusc talks / posters dealing, at least in part, with aculiferans!
Link to the program:
http://www.icim3.org/program.htm
Talks dealing with aculiferans
Evolution and development of photoreceptors in Polyplacophora
Ollie Vöcking
Hox gene expression in polyplacophoran molluscs
Martin Fritsch
It's only a model: seeking an osphradium in more obscure molluscs
Julia Sigwart
Development of the metanephridial and coelomic system in molluscs – more variability than allowed?
Gerhard Haszprunar
EvoDevo and its bearing on molluscan phylogeny.
Andi Wanninger
Posters dealing with aculiferans
New insights into molluscan biomineralization through studies of aculiferans
Kevin Kocot
Chitons that live in the dark can see light (Mollusca, Polyplacophora, Lepidopleurida)
Julia Sigwart and Lauren Sumner-Rooney
A new class of aplacophoran mollusk – or “just” a footless solenogaster?
Christiane Todt
