Topic
Mole-rats are subterranean mammals native to Africa with a fascinating gamut of biological adaptations and traits. Their underground niche provides protection against predators and oscillating environmental conditions but simultaneously imposes a plethora of environmental pressures on sensory, thermoregulatory, and metabolic systems. Mole-rats are extremely well-adapted to their habitats, displaying many innovative ecophysiological adaptations at the morphological, physiological, behavioral and molecular levels.
This conference aims to bring together established experts studying mole-rats across a wide scope of research themes and researchers that have recently realized the potential of these non-model organisms to their line of research. We aim to create opportunities for new international cooperation to emerge. Finally, since establishing successful breeding colonies in a laboratory setting can be very challenging but is crucial to much of this research, we have combined a fascinating scientific program looking into diverse research themes utilizing state-of-the art technology in metabolism, sensory biology, physiology, and omics together with a workshop on how to establish, maintain and conduct laboratory animal science within these species.
Invited Speakers
Jonathan Bayerl, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
Sabine Begall, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Nigel Bennett, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Rochelle Buffenstein , University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sandra Buhl, MPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
Hynek Burda, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Katharina Dinger, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Michaela Frye, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Melissa Holmes, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Sandra Honigs, Aquazoo Löbbecke Museum, Duesseldorf, Germany
Gary Lewin, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Park, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Paul Friedemann Pohlig, CECAD University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Kaori Oka, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto City, Japan
Radim Sumbera, University of Budweis, Budweis, Czech Republic
Martin Toft, QM Diagnostics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Nina Vogt, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Organizing Committee
Alison Barker, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Pascal Malkemper, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior, Bonn
Paul Friedemann Pohlig, CECAD, University of Cologne, Germany
Jane Reznick, CECAD, University of Cologne, Germany
We are grateful for the support provided by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
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