Biodiversity and the Future of Diversity
- Annual Assemblies
- Halle (Saale) / Online
- Start date
- End date
- Location Halle (Saale) / Online
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In 2020, the Leopoldina is dedicating its Annual Assembly to the topic of “Biodiversity and the Future of Variety”. From 25–26 September, scientists will come together in Halle (Saale) to discuss the importance of biological diversity and how it can be preserved in the future.
The scientific coordinator of the Annual Assembly 2020 is Prof. Dr. Ulf-Ingo Flügge. The biologist is Head of the Section Organismic and Evolutionary Biology of the Leopoldina.
Programme on Friday, 24 September 2021
9:00 am – 12:30 pm | Opening Ceremony
12:30 – 13:30 pm | Break
Scientific Session I | Biodiversity: Monitoring and Data Collection
13:30 – 14:15 pm | Biodiversity and People in the Anthropocene
Katrin Böhning-Gaese ML, Frankfurt/Main
14:15 – 15:00 pm | Reframing Biodiversity from the Data Up: Challenges from Plant Data Semantics
Sabina Leonelli, Exeter/UK
15:00 – 15:45 pm | Local Seeds and Global Needs: Ethnobotany, Agroecology, and the History of in situ Conservation in agriculture
Helen Curry, Cambridge/UK
15:45 – 16:15 pm | Break
Scientific Session II |Renaturation
16:15 – 17:00 pm | Rewilding the Earth, Rewilding our Lives
Harry W. Greene, Ithaca/USA
17:00 – 17:45 pm | Back where? Renaturation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Martin Wilmking, Greifswald
20:15 pm | Evening Lecture
Biodiversity – Impact and Change
Christian Wirth, Leipzig
Programme on Saturday, 25 September 2021
Scientific Session III |Biodiversity – The Perspective of the Humanities
9:00 – 9:45 am | Collecting, Organizing, and Explaining Diversity: On the History of Biodiversity Research avant la lettre – CANCELLED
Kärin Nickelsen ML, Munich
9:45 – 10:30 am | Biodiversity and Complexity under Global Change
Ulrich Brose, Leipzig
10:30 – 11:15 am | Languages Threatened with Extinction
Manfred Krifka, Berlin
11:15 – 11:45 am | Break
Scientific Session IV | Biodiversity and Plant Protection
11:45 – 12:30 pm | Making Sense of Diversity: Functions of the Plant Microbiota for Plant Growth and Health
Paul Schulze-Lefert ML, Cologne
12:30 – 13:15 pm | The Influence of Crop Protection on Biodiversity
Urs Niggli, Frick/Switzerland
13:15 – 14:15 pm | Lunch
Scientific Session V | Food and Health
14:15 – 15:00 pm | World Food System and Biodiversity Conservation
Joachim von Braun ML, Bonn
15:00 – 15:45 pm | The Microbiome and its Importance for Human Health
Michael Wagner ML, Vienna/Austria
15:45 – 16:30 pm | Land Use and Species Communities in Ecosystems – on the Need for Large-Scale Field Research
Wolfgang Weisser, Freising
16:30 – 17:00 pm | Break
Scientific Session VI | Diversity as a Societal Goal
17:00 – 17:45 pm | The Dark Side of Biodiversity – Reciprocal Effects Between Humans and Soil Biodiversity
Nico Eisenhauer, Leipzig
17:45 – 18:30 pm | Giving the Future a Chance: Psychological Processes that Reduce Status-Quo Bias
Elke Weber ML, Princeton/USA
18:30 Uhr | Closing Remarks
ML = Member of the Leopoldina
Further information
The Annual Assembly is open to members of the Leopoldina as well as everyone interested. It is planned as a hybrid event.
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