Program overview

Detailed program

Friday 29 September 2023

14:00 – 16:00 Registration and Welcome at the venue
16:00 – 19:00 Excursion to the Vienna central cemetery (Wiener Zentralfriedhof)


Saturday 30 September 2023

8:00 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 10:30 SESSION 1
9:00 – 9:30 Carina SIUTZ & Eva MILLESI: Opening
9:30 – 9:50 Edin LUGIĆ: Current status of the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in Croatia
9:50 – 10:10 Kerstin MAMMEN & Ubbo MAMMEN: Dramatic decline of the Common Hamster in Saxony-Anhalt
10:10 – 10:30 General discussion Session 1

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 SESSION 2
11:00 – 11:20 Monika PETKOVIĆ: Development of national monitoring program of Common hamster (Rodentia: Cricetidae; Cricetus cricetus) in Croatia
11:20 – 11:40 Hayat MIMOU: Mid-term assessment of the 2019-2028 French National Action Plan for the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) and the biodiversity of the Alsace plain
11:40 – 12:00 Simon HEIN & Julia-Marie BATTERMANN: Project Feldhamsterland - A glance back at Germany's largest conservation project on the common hamster
12:00 – 12:20 General discussion Session 2

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:50 SESSION 3
13:30 – 13:50 Marie-Cécile VIRION: Example of one action from the French National Action Plan for the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) and the biodiversity of the Alsace plain: Create and manage a food industry with hamster favourable crops
13:50 – 14:10 Valentina BAUMTROG: The common hamster and its protective measures - the nutritional state of the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) depending on sown wildflower fields and other protective measures in Hesse
14:10 – 14:30 Timothée GÉRARD: Testing the effect of crop associations on the hibernation and reproductive success of the European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) – Promising results for the protection of the species
14:30 – 14:50 General discussion Session 3

14:50 – 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 – 16:00 POSTER SESSION

16:00 – 17:20 SESSION 4
16:00 – 16:20 Magdalena HĘDRZAK & Joanna ZIOMEK: The behaviour of the European hamster Cricetus cricetus after releasing from the breeding facility to the natural environment
16:20 – 16:40 Urszula EICHERT & Joanna ZIOMEK: An attempt of designation factors and a set of behavioural features, which may have an impact on the survival of European hamsters from the breeding colony, released into the environment
16:40 – 17:00 Tom ANGELO: From visible cutaneous pathologies to a lesional photographic guide of the common hamster in Alsace
17:00 – 17:20 General discussion Session 4

19:00 – 24:00 Conference dinner at Salm Bräu


Sunday 1 October 2023

9:00 – 10:20 SESSION 5
9:00 – 9:20 Tobias E. REINERS: From the wild to captivity - from genetics to genomics - Challenges in the genetic management of the Common hamster
9:20 – 9:40 Julia HEINZE: Breeding with wild caught hamsters – first three years of “assisted migration” in Langgöns and Pohlheim
9:40 – 10:00 Fabrice CAPBER: Lympho-epithelial thymoma in a common hamster (Cricetus cricetus)
10:00 – 10:20 General discussion Session 5

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 – 12:10 SESSION 6
10:50 – 11:10 Marieke BEIER: How do you know they are in estrus? – Preliminary results on the use of vaginal swabs in female common hamsters (Cricetus cricetus)
11:10 – 11:30 Thomas LIEBENSTEIN: A holistic approach for a charismatic field dweller – Zoo Leipzig’s novel role in the cooperative conservation project for the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) in Saxony (Germany)
11:30 – 11:50 Stefanie MONECKE: to be announced
11:50 – 12:10 General discussion Session 6

12:10 – 13:30 Closing/Farewell with drinks and snacks