Dr. Richard Butler joins the GeoBio-Center from September 2011 for five years as a DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader. He gained his Ph.D in 2007 from the University of Cambridge and has since worked as a researcher at the Natural History Museum (London) and the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie. more

Prof. Gert Wörheide recently visited the Faculty of Sciences of Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), since 2010 partner University of the LMU, to discuss potential collaborations. He visited the Ang Sila- and Ko Sichang marine labs and met with researchers to discuss potential projects of mutual interest. more

The Palaeontological Museum Munich opens its new special exhibition "Hard shell - soft core: the evolutionary history of Molluscs" on the 21. Juli 2011. From 22. Juli 2011 until 1 June 2012 this exhibition will disply interesting aspects and fantastic fossils from the 500 million year long history of molluscs more