Leibniz President visits the Museum Koenig Bonn
The Leibniz President (centre) during her visit to the LIB, Museum Koenig Bonn. Together with Dr Gitta Heinz, she visited our insect collections, including the 3D insect scanner. (from left to right: Mariam Gabelaia (at the scanner), Adrian Grüter, Benjamin Wipfler, Head of the Morphology Laboratory, Bernhard Misof, Martina Brockmeier, Gitta Heinz, Christoph Scherber. © LIB, Matthias Geiger
On 2 May, Leibniz President Martina Brockmeier also visited the LIB, Museum Koenig in Bonn on her tour of various Leibniz institutions. She was accompanied by the newly appointed Life Sciences Officer for the Leibniz Association, Gitta Heinz. During the visit, there was a guided tour of our permanent exhibition “Life is Diversity” and one of the scientific collections.
The permanent exhibition inspired our president with its unique concept of showing exhibits in their natural habitat – spectacularly realistically staged. The recently completed part “Rainforest – the Canopy” was appreciated in detail. During the tour and the talks, we also gave insights into the collection and the research work of the LIB, including a demonstration on the 3D insect scanner. Furthermore, a selection of current research projects and plans were presented: the Caucasus Barcode of Life project (CaBOL), the FörTax – project to promote taxonomic knowledge as a basis for nature conservation and the EU Horizon project BioMonitor4CAP, a Europe-wide project for biodiversity monitoring in agricultural landscapes.
In the discussion that followed, we were able to find numerous commonalities with the office in positions on the urgency of more biodiversity research or the necessary expansion of a central, open collection and research infrastructure and assure ourselves of Martina Brockmeier’s support.
