UM Congresses

The tri-annual Unitas meeting: past and future, where and when.

Vienna, Austria, 2001

Council of UNITAS MALACOLOGICA 1998-2001

President: Luitfried SALVINI-PLAWEN (Wien/Vienna, Austria)
Secretary: Peter B. MORDAN (London, England, UK)
Treasurer: Jackie VAN GOETHEM (Bruxelles/Brussels, Belgium)

Members of Council: Takahiro ASAMI (Matsumoto, Japan) Klaus BANDEL (Hamburg, Germany) Yuri KANTOR (Moskwa/Moscow, Russia) Pablo Enrique PENCHASZADEH (Buenos Aires, Argentinia) John D. TAYLOR (London, England, UK)

Retired President: Rüdiger BIELER (Chicago, USA)

Organisation of Congress

Organisers-in-chief:

Gerhard STEINER (Universität Wien) Luitfried SALVINI-PLAWEN (Universität Wien) Christiane TODT (Universität Wien) Helmut SATTMANN (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

Organising Committee:

Lisa ANGER Claudia BAUER Mathias BRUCKNER Thomas BÜCHINGER Hermann DREYER Karl EDLINGER (NHM Wien) Pia Andrea EGGER Roman EISENHUT Christine EXNER Angelika GRÜNDLER Mag. Sabine HAMMER Claudia HANDL Matthias HARZHAUSER (NHM Wien) Franz HOCHSTÖGER Christoph HÖRWEG Martina KNAPP Barbara LAISTER Oleg MANDIC, Anita MORTH Rainer MÜLLAN Alice OTT Andreas PILAT Barbara PIRINGER Heidemarie POLLAK Eva-Maria PRIBIL-HAMBERGER (NHM Wien) Emanuel REDL Alexander REISCHÜTZ Kurt SCHAEFER Denise SCHNEIDER Elisabeth SINGER Mariti STEINER Michael URBANEK Patricia WERNSDORF Robert WOCHESLÄNDER Martin ZUSCHIN

Symposia held at the WCM 2001

Ancient Lakes: Laboratories and Archives of Molluscan Evolution
Organised by Frank WESSELINGH (Leiden, The Netherlands) and Ellinor MICHEL (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) (sponsored by UM).

Molluscan Chemosymbiosis
Organised by Penelope BARNES (Balboa, Panama), Carole HICKMAN (Berkeley, USA) and Martin ZUSCHIN (Wien/Vienna, Austria) (sponsored by UM).

Evo-Devo in Mollusca
Organised by Gerhard HASZPRUNAR (München/Munich, Germany) and Wim J.A.G. DICTUS (Utrecht, The Netherlands) (sponsored by AMS).

Molluscan Conservation & Biodiversity
Organised by Ian KILLEEN (Felixtowe, UK) and Mary SEDDON (Cardiff, UK) (sponsored by UM).

New Frontiers in Functional Morphology of Molluscs - A Tribute to Vera Fretter and Ruth Turner
Organised by Shirley BAKER (Gainesville, USA) and Diana PADILLA (Stony Brook, USA) (sponsored by AMS and NSF).