Graduate Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition, SysEB: Phylogenetics 1

Monday, December 13, 2010: 9:15 AM-11:40 AM
Garden Salon 2 (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)
Organizer :
Margaret
Moderators:
Jennifer M. Zaspel
Christiane Weirauch
9:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:32 AM
Phylogeny and sexual selection in the dance fly species group Enoplempis (Empis, Empidini)
Steven Paul Turner, North Carolina State University; Isaac Winkler, North Carolina State University; Brian M. Wiegmann, North Carolina State University
9:44 AM
Phylogenetic relationships of Neotropical Empidinae lineages with regard to the entire subfamily
Mirian N. Mendonca, North Carolina State University; Brian M. Wiegmann, North Carolina State University; Isaak S. Winkler, North Carolina State University
9:56 AM
Systematics and evolution of the acrobat ant Crematogaster in Madagascar
Bonnie B. Blaimer, University of California, Davis
10:08 AM
Molecular evolution of the subfamily Telenominae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
Charuwat Taekul, Ohio State University; Norman Johnson, The Ohio State University; Alejandro A. Valerio, Ohio State University
10:20 AM
Break
10:33 AM
Phylogeny and taxonomic status of the Paridris complex
Elijah Talamas, Ohio State University; Norman Johnson, The Ohio State University; Lubomir Masner, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
10:45 AM
Updates on systematics and taxonomy of Signiphoridae
Ana Dal Molin, University of Manitoba; James B. Woolley, Texas A&M University
10:57 AM
Calesinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): morphology and molecular phylogenetics of an enigmatic taxon
Jason Mottern, University of California; John M. Heraty, University of California
11:09 AM
Testing the monophyly of Ageniellini genera (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) with a molecular phylogeny, and the search for diagnostic morphological characters
Cecilia Waichert, Utah State University; Carol Von-Dohlen, Utah State University; James P. Pitts, Utah State University
11:21 AM
Concluding Remarks