Monday, December 11, 2006: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room 117 (Convention Center)

Section A Symposium: Assembling the Tree of Life for Insects and Their Relatives: Emerging Results in the Pursuit of Large-scale Phylogenies

Organizer(s): Michelle Trautwein, mdtrautw@ncsu.edu
Ashley P. G. Dowling, ashley.dowling@uky.edu
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:45 PM0497Assembling the spider tree of life: Progress towards the phylogeny of the order Araneae
Gustavo Hormiga, hormiga@gwu.edu, M. Arnedo, S. Benjamin, J. Bond, J. Coddington, P. Goloboff, C. Grismado, C. Griswold, Cheryl Hayashi, M. Hedin, W. Maddison, J. Miller, N. Platnick, L. Prendini, M. Ramírez, Nikolaj Scharff, D. Silva, P. Sierwald, C. Vink, W. Wheeler
2:05 PM0498Deep 6: Assembling the insect trees of life
Michael F. Whiting
2:25 PM0499Mitochondrial genomics and the insect trees of life
Stephen Cameron
2:45 PM0500Assembling the Hymenoptera tree of life  [ Recorded presentation ]
M. J. Sharkey, msharkey@uky.edu, Ashley P. G. Dowling, John Heraty, D. Hawks, J. M. Carpenter, S. Schulmeister, F. Ronquist, D. Murray, Matthew L. Buffington, mbuffington@sel.barc.usda.gov, Barb Sharanowski, rhubarb@uky.edu, Andrew R. Deans, adeans@scs.fsu.edu, Johan Liljeblad, johan.liljeblad@ucr.edu, Lars Vilhelmsen, lbvilhelmsen@snm.ku.dk
3:05 PMBreak
3:15 PM0501Progress and prospects toward resolving the ant tree of life
Seán Brady
3:35 PM0502LepTree.net, a genomics-inspired community collaboration  [ Recorded presentation ]
Charles Mitter, Joaquin Baixeras, J. Brown, S. Cho, M. Cummings, D. Davis, A. Kawahara, C. Labandeira, C. Parr, J. C. Regier, A. Roe, Susan J. Weller
3:55 PM0503Assembling the beetle tree of life  [ Recorded presentation ]
Brian Farrell, David Maddison, beetle@ag.arizona.edu, Michael F. Whiting, Michael_Whiting@byu.edu
4:15 PM0504Multi-gene phylogenetics of flies in the tree of life
Jungwook Kim, argids01@yahoo.com, Brian Wiegmann, bwiegman@ncsu.edu
4:35 PM0505FlyTree: Pursuing a nuclear gene phylogeny of the Holometabola  [ Recorded presentation ]
Michelle Trautwein, mdtrautw@ncsu.edu, Brian Wiegmann, bwiegman@ncsu.edu, Jungwook Kim, argids01@yahoo.com, Matthew Bertone, maberto2@ncsu.edu, Shaun Winterton

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