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 Marshall, University of Guelph

9:23 AM

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

James 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

9:47 AM

Break

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, University of Manitoba; 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; 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, State University of New York

10:35 AM

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

Elizabeth Murray, University of California; John M. Heraty, University of California

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 N. Adelman, Virginia Tech; Scott Salom, Virginia Tech

10:59 AM

Concluding Remarks

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