At the LIB, we seek to combine the specialist areas that characterise the individual centres. We want to help shape social transformation processes from fundamental research questions to applied research and society. Our collections, laboratories and technical rooms provide the infrastructure for our excellent research. The exhibitions are the central places where we share our knowledge and inspire enthusiasm for nature.

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All areas at a glance
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HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesMammalogy - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesOrnithology - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesHerpetologie - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesIchthyology - Hamburg
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesMammalogy - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesOrnithology - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesHerpetology - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesIchthyology - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesLeibniz Junior Research Group Minnows - Conversation Genomics - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
VertebratesAnimal husbandry - Bonn
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgInvertebrates - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgMollusca - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgAnnelida - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgCrustacea - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgArachnida & Myriapoda - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates HamburgLepidoptera & Trichoptera - Hamburg
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnArachnida - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnMyriapoda - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnHymenoptera - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnLepidoptera & Trichoptera - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnColeoptera - Bonn
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Invertebrates BonnDiptera - Bonn
HamburgCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Central unitsMorphology laboratory - Hamburg
BonnCenter for Taxonomy & Morphology (ztm)
Central unitsMorphology laboratory - Bonn
BonnCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Comparative Genomics - Vertebrates - Bonn
BonnCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Comparative genomics of insects - Bonn
BonnCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Bioinformatics, HPC
BonnCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Statistical Phylogenomics and Machine Learning
BonnCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Evolutionary Genomics - Bonn
BonnCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Leibniz Junior Research Group - Minnows
HamburgCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics
Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Central unitsBiobank
HamburgCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Central unitsInvertebrate Genomics, Molecular Laboratory Hamburg
BonnCenter for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)
Central unitsMolecular Evolution, Molecular Laboratory Bonn
BonnCenter for Biodiversity Monitoring & Conservation Research (zbm)
Metabarcoding - Bonn
BonnCenter for Biodiversity Monitoring & Conservation Research (zbm)
Nature conservation ecology - Bonn
BonnCenter for Biodiversity Monitoring & Conservation Research (zbm)
Applied & Experimental Ecology - Bonn
HamburgCenter for Biodiversity Monitoring & Conservation Research (zbm)
Geology-Palaeontology - Hamburg
HamburgCenter for Biodiversity Monitoring & Conservation Research (zbm)
Mineralogy - Hamburg
BonnCenter for Knowledge Transfer (zwt)
Visitor & educational research
Hamburg