Archive for category: Updates
Physella sp., Foto: A. MrkvickaA. Mrkvicka

Preliminary program – 4th MoFA Meeting 2025

Dear friends of Malacology! We are pleased to send you the preliminary programme for this year's MoFA meeting in Linz – once again, it is very diverse and interesting. Please refer to our meeting page for further details. If you have any…
23. Newsletter Malakologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft am Haus der Natur SalzburgMalakologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Haus der Natur, Salzburg

News from the Malakologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Salzburg

Dear friends of Malacology, we are pleased to share the latest edition of the newsletter of the Malakologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Salzburg. In addition, an article on freshwater mussels was recently published in which R. Patzner, head…
Biozentrum Linz AußenansichtBiozentrum Linz, OÖ Landeskultur GmbH

4. MoFA conference – Reminder and registration deadline extention

Dear friends of Malacology, the MoFA conference is getting closer! Date: 26.–27. September 2025 in Linz, Upper Austria Your early registration will make our planning easier! Registration deadline and abstract submission extended!…
Theodoxus euxinus, Foto: A. MrvickaAlexander Mrvicka

Reminder and submission deadline extension – MoFA research grant

We are still accepting applications for the MoFA research grant and have extended the submission deadline to 15. June 2025! -- A generous donation from one of our association members has enabled us to offer a MoFA research grant for the…
Caucasotachaea vindobonensis, Foto A. MrkvickaAlexander Mrkvicka

MoFA Conference 2025

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Dear MoFA members, dear friends of Malacology! We cordially invite you to the 4th meeting of the Society Mollusc Research Austria (MoFA), which will take place from 26. to 27. September 2025 in Linz, Upper Austria. Besides the scientific…
Dreissena polymorpha Muscheln © MoFA© MoFA

Scholarship for young mollusc researchers

A generous donation from one of our association members has enabled us to offer a MoFA research grant for the first time. We are particularly pleased about this as it allows us to fulfil our primary purpose of promoting research on molluscs. The…
Trochulus sp. auf grünem Petasites-BlattMOFA, S. Bamberger

Current calls

Dear MoFA members and friends of malacology, we would like to draw your attention to the following interesting calls: Polish Malacological Seminar The second announcement of the Polish Malacological Seminar is available →here The…
Gastropoden bei der Ausstellung „Streck die Fühler aus“ des Biodiversitätszentrum Linz 2019, © MoFA© MoFA

Save-the-date – 4. MoFA-Meeting, 26.–27. September 2025

We are very pleased to announce the 4th MoFA meeting! It will take place from 26-27 September 2025 in Linz, Upper Austria. On Friday 26.9., the scientific part of the meeting will take place in the Biology Center Linz. On Saturday 27.9., there…
Helicopsis austriaca, Foto: A. MrkvickaA. Mrkvicka

Event announcement: Landscape maintenance for Helicopsis in Bad Fischau-Brunn

On Saturday 22.2.2025 from 1 - 4 pm, the Landschaftspflegeverein Thermenlinie will host a landscape maintenance event at the natural monument of dry grassland in Bad Fischau-Brunn. The highest-ranking protected species in this area is the Austrian…
Schneckenkranz um TeelichtA. Mrkvicka

Merry Christmas

Dear MoFA members, dear friends of malacology, we look back on a very successful year 2024, with the publication of the MoFA-journal Arianta 11, with online contributions on snails in the garden, a series of Ö1 broadcasts on the mollusc…