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

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

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

Room 106, First Floor (Convention Center)

Moderators:

Jennifer Zaspel
Peter Cranston

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

The quest to discover topotypical males of Sonoma tolulae (LeConte) (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae): A little brown beetle story of intrigue, taxonomy, and ecology

Michael L. Ferro, Louisiana State University ; Christopher E. Carlton, Louisiana State University

8:47 AM

Unravelling the phylogeny of the Chloropidae (Diptera): tribe Elachipterini

Julia J. Mlynarek, McGill University ; Terry A. Wheeler, McGill University

8:59 AM

On predacious diving beetles (Dytiscidae): Phylogenetic analysis of relationships among members of the genera Hygrotus Stephens and Coelambus Thomson using molecular data

April J. Tafoya, University of New Mexico ; Eugenio H. Nearns, University of New Mexico ; Kelly B. Miller, University of New Mexico

9:11 AM

Eucalantica: a lost child of Saridoscelinae, a subfamily new to the New World

Jae-Cheon Sohn, University of Maryland ; Don Davis, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian ; Kenji Nishida, Universidad de Costa Rica

9:23 AM

Multivariate discrimination of a new species of Tapinoma from the western United States

Christopher A. Hamm, Michigan State University

9:35 AM

Limits and generic relationships of the tribe Sciophilini (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)

Christopher J. Borkent, McGill University ; Terry A. Wheeler, McGill University

9:47 AM

9:59 AM

Identification of lineage-specific adaptive changes in the genomes of 13 bee species

S. Hollis Woodard, University of Illinois ; Brielle J. Fischman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Kranthi Varala, University of Illinois ; Sydney A. Cameron, University of Illinois ; Matthew Hudson, University of Illinois ; Andrew G. Clark, Cornell University ; Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:11 AM

Revision of the genera of the family Phalacridae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea)

Matthew L. Gimmel, Louisiana State University ; Christopher E. Carlton, Louisiana State University

10:23 AM

Phylogeographic and population genetic analysis of the barklouse Echmepteryx hageni

Scott M. Shreve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Edward L. Mockford, Illinois State University ; Kevin P. Johnson, Illinois Natural History Survey

10:35 AM

Meet the mustache wasps: phylogenetics and nesting behavior of Crabronini (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)

Daniel Bennett, University of Kansas

10:47 AM

Concluding Remarks

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