Monday, December 11, 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 101 (Convention Center)
Student Competition for the President's Prize, Section A1. Systematics, Morphology, and Evolution
Moderator(s):	Kelly Miller Andrew Michel
8:30 AM			Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM	0206		One of these beetles is not like the other: Geographic variation vs. sub-speciation in willow-feeding Calligrapha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)   Mark H. Goodman, Shawn M. Clark
8:47 AM	0207		Tropical forests are both evolutionary cradles and museums of leaf beetle diversity   Duane McKenna, Brian Farrell
8:59 AM	0208		Testing patterns of correlated genitalic evolution in male and female Phyllophaga scarab beetles Maxi Polihronakis
9:11 AM	0209		Molecular phylogeny of the variegated mud-loving beetles (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Heteroceridae)   Jonas G. King, Paul K. Lago, Julian R. Starr
9:23 AM	0210		Fixing the flat: Phylogeny of flat bark beetles based on molecular data (Coleoptera: Silvanidae, Passandridae, Cucujidae, Laemophoeidae) Jonathan T. Osborne, Michael F. Whiting, Joseph V. McHugh, Michael C. Thomas
9:35 AM	0211		Systematics of the Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea):  An investigation of the natural history and evolution of a mycophagous beetle family Floyd W. Shockley, Kelly B. Miller, Joseph V. McHugh, Michael F. Whiting
9:47 AM			Break
9:59 AM	0212		Into the trees: Phylogeny and eco-morphological shifts of the hydrobiusine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)   Andrew Short, James Liebherr, Michael Caterino
10:11 AM	0213		Host plant associated genetic differences among the populations of Dectes texanus infesting sunflowers and soybeans Madhura Siddappaji, Srinivas Kambhampati
10:23 AM	0214		Preliminary assessment of generic limits, taxonomy, and phylogeny of the Indo-Australian crowned weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae) Gregory Peter Setliff
10:35 AM	0215		Phylogeny of the LBJ’s: An attempt to identify natural lineages in the Cerylonid series (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) James Robertson, Joseph V. McHugh, Michael F. Whiting
10:47 AM	0216		Sacred systematics: Phylogeny and classification of Noviini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Juanita A. Forrester, Joseph V. McHugh
10:59 AM	0217		Population genetics of the pecan weevil, Curculio caryae Horn (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) inferred from mitochondrial nucleotide data   Glené Mynhardt, Anthony I. Cognato, Marvin K. Harris

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