Session: Student Competition for the President's Prize, SEB: Phylogenetics: I (2009 ESA Annual Meeting, December 13-16, 2009)

Student Competition for the President's Prize, SEB: Phylogenetics: I

Monday, December 14, 2009: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM

Room 105, First Floor (Convention Center)

Moderators:

Barbara Sharanowski
Rebecca Simmons

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

The taxonomy and biogeography of the ant subgenus Decacrema (Crematogaster) in Madagascar

Bonnie B. Blaimer, University of California, Davis

8:47 AM

Phylogeny and comparative analysis of color pattern evolution in a Mexican-Central American Bombus (Pyrobombus) species complex

Michelle A. Duennes, University of Illinois ; Heather M. Hines, University of Illinois ; Sydney A. Cameron, University of Illinois

8:59 AM

Phylogenetic evidence for a new braconid subfamily (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Maxfischeriinae) with five new species and the description of a novel egg morphology

C. Andy Boring, University of Kentucky ; Barbara J. Sharanowski, University of Kentucky ; Michael J. Sharkey, University of Kentucky

9:11 AM

Systematics of the Archiborborini (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)

Joel H. Kits, University of Guelph ; Stephen A. Marshall, University of Guelph

9:23 AM

Revision of Cliniodes (Lepidoptera: Crambidae): cloud-forest endemics and stridulatory courtship

James E. Hayden, Cornell University

9:35 AM

Bad news for bees: new species of bee killers (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Apiomerus spp.)

Lily Berniker, University of California-Riverside ; Christiane Weirauch, University of California-Riverside

9:47 AM

9:59 AM

An iterative approach to revising the ensign wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae)

Awma Rinchhuanawma, North Carolina State University

10:11 AM

Large data sets, large sets of trees, and how many brains? Visualization and comparison of phylogenetic hypotheses inferred from rDNA in Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

Ana Dal Molin, Texas A&M University ; Suzanne Matthews, Texas A&M University ; Seung-Jin Sul, Texas A&M University ; James Munro, University of California-Riverside ; James B. Woolley, Texas A&M University ; John M. Heraty, University of California-Riverside ; Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M University

10:23 AM

Investigating the Sirex noctilio - parasitoid complex in New York State

Patrick T. Eager, SUNY-ESF ; Douglas C. Allen, SUNY-ESF ; Melissa K. Fierke, SUNY-ESF

10:35 AM

Systematics of Kapala (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae) and the origin of an Old World species

Elizabeth Murray, University of California-Riverside ; John Heraty, University of California-Riverside

10:47 AM

Confirmation of species when morphological characteristics are indistinguishable between native and introduced congeners

Gina Davis, Virginia Tech ; Nathan Havill, USDA - Forest Service ; Zach Adelman, Virginia Tech ; Scott Salom, Virginia Tech

10:59 AM

Concluding Remarks

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