We would like also to thank our sponsors for helping us to make this meeting possible:

Master Sponsors:

• University of Bonn
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• RWE-Dea
• Bundesstadt Bonn
• Celka
• Fema-Salzgitter
• Springer
• Beta Analytics

Institutional Sponsors:

• The Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research
• Humboldt Foundation
• The Grzybowski Foundation
• The Micropaleontology Project, Inc., New York
• Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley (USA)
• The Micropalaeontological Society