· Wednesday, September 10th 2014:
o arrival
o Registration of ICBS participants
o In the evening : get together, welcome drink and dinner
· Thursday, September 11th 2014:
o 9:00 Opening with Robert Rottonara (Mayor Corvara) and Oscar Alfreider (President tourism association Alta Badia)
o 9:30 – 10:00 Guiseppe Santi: Cave bears in Italy: Updates and new perspectives
o 10:00 – 10:30 Mario Rossi: The evolution of cave bears: old hypotheses and new perspectives
o 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
o 10:45 – 11:15 Michael Hofreiter: 20 years of cave bear DNA sequences at the 20th cave bear symposium
o 11:15 – 11:45 Axel Barlow: Cave bear genomics
o 11:45 – 12:15 Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes: Studying the Cave Bear Populations in North of Spain from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes
o 12:15 – 12:45 Johanna L.A. Paijmans: Genetic variability and population history of Eurasian wolverines since the Late Pleistocene
o 12:45 – 14:30 Lunch at Hotel Marmolada
o 14:30 – 15:00 Martin Sabol: A high-alpine record of cave bears from Slovakia
o 15:00 – 15:30 Adrian Marciszak: Brown bear Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 in Poland
o 15:30 – 16:00 Erik Ersmark: Rise and fall of the Scandinavian brown bear
o 16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
o 16:15 – 16:45 Ana García-Vázquez: Love or Hate? On Brown and Cave Bears in the Iberian Peninsula
o 16:45 – 17:15 Doris Nagel: Populations variations in extant and fossil spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta)
o 17:15 – 17:45 Lana Laughlan: The Fossil Gauerblick Cave Fauna
o 17:45 – 18:15 Ina Wunn: Neanderthal Man, Territoriality, and Religion
o 19:30 Dinner at the Hotel
· Friday, September 12th 2014:
EXCURSION: we recommend hiking shoes, rain shield, warm clothing, backpack
Conturines Cave: 3 hours hiking tour to the cave entrance or helicopter flight to the cave
Alternative program:
1) South Tyrol Museum of Archeology/Bozen (5000 years old human mummy “Ötzi: http:/www.iceman.it/en
2) Museum Ladin Ćiastel de Tor: http://www.museumladin.it/en/the-museum.asp
In the evening dinner at Hotel Marmolada
At 20:30 you can join a public talk of Gernot Rabeder at San Cassiano: "Der ladinische Bär und die Conturineshöhle"
· Saturday, September 13th 2014:
o Morning: poster session
o Visit of the Museum Ursus ladinicus in St. Kassian
o Hiking tour at Pralongia: Dr. Prinoth from Museum ladin Ursus ladinicus will give us an introduction to the geology and history of this region.
o Evening event at the mountain restaurant “Punta Trieste” (2000m)
Descent to Corvara 30min. walk or by cross country vehicles
· Sunday, September 14th 2014 Day of Departure
