[18-7] Innovative technological solutions to accelerate the systematics of mega-diverse insect orders

Thu. Aug 29, 2024 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM Room B-1

Chair: Jurate De Prins (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Andreas Zwick (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

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9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

[18-7-01] Using high-throughput species discovery with robots and Nanopore sequencing to overcome taxon biases in biodiversity science

*Rudolf Meier^1,2, Amrita Srivathsan¹, Dalton Amorim³, Lorenz Wührl⁴, Hossein Shirali⁴, Nathalie Klug⁴, Christian Pylatiuk⁴ (1. Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin (Germany), 2. Humboldt University (Germany), 3. Departamento de Biologia, FFCLRP, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), 4. Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany))

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

[18-7-02] Accelerating Biodiversity Discovery: Automated Insect Processing with DiversityScanner and a Mini Gripper Technology

*Lorenz Wuehrl¹, Leonard Keller¹, Rudolf Meier², Hossein Shirali¹, Nathalie Klug¹, Christian Pylatiuk¹ (1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany), 2. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Germany))

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

[18-7-03] Large-scale digitization of insect morphology: recent advances in synchrotron X-ray imaging and data analysis

*Thomas van de Kamp¹, Evan P. Economo², Daniel Hänschke¹, Elias Hamann¹, Jenny Hein¹, Francisco Hita García³, Julian Katzke², Philipp D. Lösel⁴, Marcus Zuber¹, Tilo Baumbach¹ (1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany), 2. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) (Japan), 3. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Germany), 4. The Australian National University (Australia))

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

[18-7-04] Interlinked online databases – a key prerogative for evidence-based decision-making and for AI applications

*Jurate De Prins^1,2 (1. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia), 2. Flemish Entomological Society (Belgium))

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

[18-7-05] What was old is new again: recent advances and perspectives for museomics in Coleoptera

*Romain Nattier¹, Karen Salazar¹, Diane Dabir-Moghaddam¹ (1. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France))

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

[18-7-06] Imaging internal structures of rare dried and pinned insect specimens using virtual dissection and micro-CT scanning

*Mikael Englund^1,2, Max Söderholm^1,2, Pasi Sihvonen^1,2 (1. University of Helsinki (Finland), 2. Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History (Finland))

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

[18-7-07] The holistic specimen: from morphology to genomes

*Emma Kärrnäs¹, Christer Hansson^1,2, Jadranka Rota¹, Niklas Wahlberg¹ (1. Lund University (Sweden), 2. The Natural History Museum, London (UK))

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

[18-7-08] Widening the taxonomic bottleneck with high-throughput collection genomics

*Andreas Zwick¹, Stephen J Bent¹, Troy Denyer², Nicole Fisher¹, Jenny Giles¹, Alicia Grealy³, Diana Hartley¹, James Nicholls¹, Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn³, Jesse Wallace¹, Claire Yang¹ (1. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (Australia), 2. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Information Management & Technology (Australia), 3. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture of Parks Australia and CSIRO) (Australia))

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