Fossil Record in Resins and Sediments

Program

Day 0 – 22 May 2023 – Monday
15:00 – 18:00 registration (faculty of biology, floor 0)
10:00 – 12:00 amber workshop group 1
12:00 – 14:00 amber workshop group 2
14:00 – 16:00 amber workshop group 3

Day 1 – 23 May 2023 Tuesday
08:30 – 10:45 registration (Faculty of Biology, floor 0)
09:00 – 11:00 amber workshop group 4

11:00 – 12:00 Opening ceremony
12:00 – 13:00 Coffee break
13:00 – 13:30 presentation of Museum of Amber Inclusions University of Gdańsk and its exhibition “Life in Amber Forest”

FOSSILS IN BALTIC AMBER — AFTERNOON SESSION 1

13:30 – 14:00 PLENARY LECTURE: BALTIC AMBER – TRAP OR TREASURE TROVE FOR PALAEOBIOLOGY Jacek Szwedo
14:00 ECHOES FROM THE CRETACEOUS: NEW FOSSILS SHED LIGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF HOST DETECTION AND CONCEALED OVIPOSITOR APPARATUS IN THE PARASITOID WASP SUPERFAMILY ORUSSOIDEA (HYMENOPTERA) Lars Vilhelmsen
14:20 PALAEOGENE AMBERS AS SOURCE OF FOSSIL ASCOMYCETES: RECENT DISCOVERIES AND PERSPECTIVES Marta Tischer
14:40 LITHOBIOMORPHA IN BALTIC AMBER – CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND PERSPECTIVES Jakub Bienias
15:00 – 15:30 Lunch

FOSSILS IN BALTIC AMBER — AFTERNOON SESSION 2

15:30 FIRST CHILELIMNOPHILA (DIPTERA: LIMONIIDAE) IN FOSSIL RECORD Iwona Kania-Kłosok
15:50 DEMATIACEOUS MICROFUNGI FROM EUROPEAN PALAEOGENE AMBERS Elina Kettunen
16:10 THE FIRST FOSSIL LARVA OF MECOPTERA (INSECTA) – DISCOVERED IN BALTIC AMBER Krzysztof Szpila
16:30 NEW INSIGHT INTO BIOGEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE GENUS ROBSONOMYIA (DIPTERA: KEROPLATIDAE) – FIRST EUROPEAN AND FOSSIL SPECIES Alicja Pełczyńska
16:50 break/visiting exhibitions at the Faculty of Biology
17:30 – conference dinner (note: exclusively for enrolled).

 

DAY 2 -24 May 2023 Wednesday

FOSSILS IN SEDIMENTS — MORNING SESSION 1

10:00 – 11:00 PLENARY LECTURE: THE ‘CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION’ Jerzy Dzik
11:00 A NEW GROUP OF AMBER SOURCE PLANTS FROM THE CRETACEOUS Leyla Seyfullah
11:20 UNIQUENESS OF PRESERVATION OF FOSSIL MATERIAL FROM FUR FORMATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF ARCTOCONOPA (DIPTERA, LIMONIIDAE) Wiesław Krzemiński
11:40 NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE JURASSIC COLEORRHYNCHA MYERS ET CHINA, 1929 (HEMIPTERA) FROM EUROPEAN DEPOSITS Beata Bieszczad
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break

FOSSILS IN SEDIMENTS — MORNING SESSION 2

12:30 THE BEARING OF THE FOSSIL RECORD TO CONSTRAIN THE EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION OF PARASITE-HOST ASSOCIATIONS Kenneth De Baets
12:50 “OUR GRAVES HAVE MORE LIFE”: FOSSIL TIPULOMORPHA FROM THE CRATO FORMATION OF NE BRAZIL Daubian Santos
13:10 FIRST SPILAPTERIDAE (PALAEODICTYOPTERA) FROM NAMURIAN B OF BIELSZOWICE COAL MINE, UPPER SILESIA Jacek Szwedo
13:30 – 14:30 AMBER WORKSHOP – COLLECTION OVERVIEW (ON REQUESTS CONTACT: blazej.bojarski@ug.edu.pl)
14:40 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 Poster session
17:30 – Gdańsk World Capital of Amber – visit to the Amber Museum and a night walk in Gdańsk

 

Day 3 – 25 May 2023 – Thursday

FOSSILS IN THE WORLD FOSSIL RESINS — MORNING SESSION 1

09:30 – 10:00 PLENARY LECTURE: FOSSIL RESINS OF THE WORLD, WORLDS OF FOSSIL RESINS Jacek Szwedo
10:00 – 10:20 EXTINCT PARASITE OF EXTINCT SCORPIONFLY – SYNCHROTRON MICROTOMOGRAPHY HELPED TO UNCOVER A HIDDEN STORY Agnieszka Soszyńska
10:20 – 10:40 FOSSIL FLOWERS FROM MIOCENE ZHANGPU AMBER (CHINA) Simon Beurel
10:40 – 11:00 SEARCHING FOR CALIBRATION POINTS IN THE WORLD FOSSIL RESINS TO DATE THE LEPIDOPTERAN TREE OF LIFE Maria Heikkilä
11:00 – 11:20 COCKROACH FAUNA FROM MID-CRETACEOUS KACHIN AMBER: STATE OF THE KNOWLEDGE Lucia Šmídová
11:30 – 12:00 Coffe break

FOSSILS IN THE WORLD FOSSIL RESINS — MORNING SESSION 2

12:00 – 12:20 AMBER COLLECTION AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON Piotr Cuber
12:20 – 12:40 NEW ZEALAND AMBER: AGE, DEPOSITIONAL SETTING AND BIOINCLUSIONS Uwe Kaulfuss
12:40 – 13:00 THE REMARKABLE PALAEODIVERSITY IN BURMESE (MYANMAR) AMBER (MID-CRETACEOUS) – UPDATED Andrew J. Ross
13:00 – 13:20 WIDESPREAD MINERALIZATION OF INSECTS IN MID-CRETACEOUS KACHIN AMBER Hui Jiang
13:20 – 13:40 WHAT IS ETHIOPIAN AMBER TELLING US ABOUT MIOCENE AFRICAN FOREST ECOSYSTEM? Valentine Bouju
13:40 – 14:00 DINGLOMORPHA – KEY TAXON OR BLIND BRANCH IN STERNORRHYNCHA EVOLUTION? Jacek Szwedo
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

FOSSILS IN THE WORLD FOSSIL RESINS — AFTERNOON SESSION

15:00 – 15:20 EXPLORING THE FOSSIL RESINS TAPHONOMY – PIDDOCKS INCLUSIONS AND ICHNOFOSSILS Błażej Bojarski
15:20 – 15:40 HANDSOME FUNGUS BEETLES (COCCINELLOIDEA: ENDOMYCHIDAE, ANAMORPHIDAE) IN MYANMAR AMBER. REMARKABLE DIVERSITY, REMARKABLE CHALLENGES Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela
15:40 – 16:00 THE COMPARISON OF APHIDS FROM CANADIAN AMBER TO FAUNAS FROM OTHER FOSSIL RESINS Bartosz Ogłaza
16:20 – 16:40 MIOCENE FOSSIL RESINS – WHAT THEY CAN SAY ON MODERN-DAY CLIMATIC CRISIS Jacek Szwedo
16:40 – 17:00 A GLIMPSE TO THE ANCIENT RESINIFEROUS FORESTS THROUGH AMBER TAPHONOMY Sergio Álvarez-Parra
17:00 – 18:00 OPEN DISCUSSION
18:00 – Dinner

 

Day 4 — 26 May 2023 — Friday
05:30 – 13:00 The Amber Coast – a trip the Vistula Split. (note: exclusively for enrolled)

 

POSTERS

  1. PARASITOID WASP DIVERSITY (HYMENOPTERA) IN LOWER CRETACEOUS AMBER FROM EL SOPLAO (SPAIN) Sergio Álvarez-Parra et al.
  2. A FORGOTTEN WORLD: AMBER HARVESTMEN AS A WINDOW INTO PAST DIVERSITY Christian Bartel, Jason A. Dunlop
  3. THE NEMATODE FOSSIL RECORD – INSIGHTS FROM BALTIC AMBER INCLUSIONS Bojarski B. et al.
  4. LUBLIN AMBER – INTRODUCTION Bojarski B. et al.
  5. BUZZERS FROM THE PAST – THE FIRST MELIKERTINI BEE FROM EOCENE LUBLIN AMBER Celary W. et al.
  6. DAMSEL BUG FROM EOCENE LUBLIN AMBER, MAY BE NOT SUCH A DAMSEL Szwedo J., Bojarski B.
  7. THE LIMONIIDAE OF EOCENE LUBLIN AMBER Zakrzewska M. et al.
  8. JUMPING PLANT-LICE (HEMIPTERA: STERNORRHYNCHA: PSYLLOIDEA) FROM EOCENE BALTIC AMBER Drohojowska J., Kurkina S.
  9. CROUCHING DISPARITY, HIDDEN DIVERSITY – WHITEFLIES IN THE EOCENE RESINS OF EUROPE Drohojowska J., Szwedo J.
  10. THE IMPACT OF NEW SCUTTLE FLY FOSSILS IN FOSSIL RESINS FROM CRETACEOUS TO HOLOCENE Herbert M.C.M. et al.
  11. LISSOMINAE (COLEOPTERA: ELATERIDAE) FROM BALTIC AND ROVNO AMBERS Hoffmannová J. et al.
  12. ROVE BEETLE PALAEOBIOLOGY AT THE NATURAL HISTORY HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK Jenkins Shaw J., Solodovnikov A.
  13. FIRST FEMALE OF FOSSIL BURMOTHAUMA (EOMEROPIDAE, MECOPTERA) FROM BURMESE AMBER SHEDS LIGHT ON ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES OF FOSSIL EOMEROPID IN THE CRETACEOUS Kaczmarek S., Soszyńska A.
  14. A BRIEF REVIEW OF KNOWN AMBER PAUSSINAE (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST ROVNO AMBER PAUSSINE FINDING Kirichenko-Babko M.B. et al.
  15. THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE IDENTIFICATION OF FOSSIL RESINS Klikowicz-Kosior A., Kosior M.
  16. FIRST CLICK-BEETLE LARVAE FROM THE MID-CRETACEOUS AMBER OF NORTHERN MYANMAR Kundrata R. et al.
  17. TERRESTRIAL PARASITENGONA MITES (ARACHNIDA: ACARIFORMES) IN FOSSIL RESINS – STATE OF THE ART Mąkol J.
  18. WHERE TRADITIONAL EXTINCTION ESTIMATES FALL FLAT: USING NOVEL COPHYLOGENETIC METHODS TO ESTIMATE EXTINCTION RISK IN PATHOGENS Mulvey L. et al.
  19. INCLUSIONS IN AMBER FROM COLLECTIONS OF THE POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MUSEUM OF THE EARTH IN WARSAW Pielińska A. et al.
  20. GLITTER IN AMBER – LONG-LEGGED FLIES (DOLICHOPODIDAE) IN BALTIC AMBER Słomczyński K., Soszyńska A.
  21. “NECROPHAGOUS TRAP” – A CASE STUDY ON CRETACEOUS AMBER WITH LIZARD HOLOTYPE OCULUDENTAVIS NAGA Solórzano-Kraemer M.M. et al.
  22. MUSEUM OF AMBER INCLUSIONS UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK – DISCOVERIES AND POTENTIAL Sontag E., Szwedo J.
  23. X-RAY MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY REVEALS HIDDEN PALEODIVERSITY OF MINUTE HOODED BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CORYLOPHIDAE) IN EOCENE BALTIC AMBER Szawaryn K., Bukejs A.
  24. MICRO-CT SCANNING REVEALED A NEW COCCINELLIDAE REPRESENTATIVE FROM BALTIC AMBER, A PUTATIVE COMMON ANCESTOR OF TWO EXTANT TRIBES Szawaryn K., Tomaszewska W.