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Symposia for Evolution 2006
ASN Sponsored Symposia
- Symposium title: Merging ecological and evolutionary approaches to understanding geographic patterns in species richness.
Speakers: Michael Donoghue, Brad Hawkins, Robert Ricklefs, Kaustuv Roy, John Wiens, and Susan Harrison.
- Symposium title: Young Investigators Prize Symposium
SSE Sponsored Symposia
- Symposium title: The Evolution of Behavioral Phenotypes
Organizers: John True, Stony Brook University
and Susan Foster, Clark University
Schedule (Sunday, June 25, 2006), download PDF.
| 8:30 - 8:35 |
Welcome and opening remarks.
John True,
Dept. of Ecology and Evolution
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| 8:35 – 9.05 |
The genetic architecture of Drosophila behavior.
Trudy F.C. Mackay,
Dept. of Genetics
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA |
| 9:05 – 9:35 |
Social interactions, indirect genetic effects, and evolution.
Allen J. Moore,
Centre for Ecology & Conservation, School of Biosciences
University of Exeter, UK |
| 9:35 – 10:05 |
Genotype-by-environment interaction and sexual selection.
Christine R.B. Boake,
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA |
| 10:05 – 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 0:30 – 11:00 |
Ancestral Plasticity and the evolution of behavioral phenotypes.
Susan Foster,
Dept. of Biology
Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA |
| 11:00 – 11:30 |
The role of learning in behavioral evolution.
Frederic Mery,
CNRS Lab Evolution Genome and Speciation
Gif sur Yvette, France |
| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Genetics of individual variation in human emotion and personality.
Turhan Canli,
Dept. of Psychology
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
| | 12:00 – 1:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 1:30 – 2:00 |
Evolution and genetics of an adaptive mammalian behavior.
Hopi Hoekstra,
Division of Biological Sciences
University of California, San Diego, USA |
| 2:00 – 2:30 |
Effects of reversed and relaxed selection on behavior.
Matthew Wund,
Dept. of Biology
Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA |
| 2:30 – 3:00 |
Hormones as mediators of behavioral adaptation and constraint.
Ellen Ketterson,
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA |
| 3:00 – 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 – 4:00 |
From molecules to mating systems: neural substrates of behavioral evolution.
Steven Phelps,
Dept. of Zoology
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| 4:00 – 4:30 |
Food Related Behaviors: From nature to molecule and back again
Marla B. Sokolowski,
Dept. of Biology
University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| 4:30 – 4:35 |
Closing remarks
Susan Foster,
Dept. of Biology
Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA |
Format 30 minute talks (25 minutes/ 5 min questions). This will be a half day event.
- Symposium title: Alternative Perspectives on Evolutionary Dynamics
Organizers: Stephen Proulx, Iowa State Unversity and Richard Gomulkiewicz, Washington State University
Format 30 minute talks (25 minutes/ 5 min questions).
Saturday, 24 June from 1:15 û 3:00 pm
and 3:30 û 5:00 pm.
- Symposium title: Intelligent Design on Trial: Lessons from the Kitzmiller v. Dover creationism case.
Organizers: Robert T. Pennock, Michigan State University and Brian Alters, McGill University
List of Speakers
| 8:30 – 9:15 |
From parent and teacher to plaintiff and director.
Bryan Rehm,
Kitzmiller Plaintiff and Member, Dover School Board. |
| 9:15 – 10:00 |
The ground rules of science.
Robert T. Pennock,
Michigan State University. |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:15 |
On being a "hybrid expert:" detailing the intelligent design "Wedge Strategy" in federal court.
Barbara Forrest,
Southeastern Louisiana University. |
| 11:15 – 12:00 |
Evolution and faith: What is at stake?
John F. Haught,
Georgetown University. |
| 12 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:30 -2:15 |
But is it good pedagogy?
Brian Alters,
McGill University. |
| 2:15 – 3:15 |
Fossils, genes, and mousetraps: the 21st century case for evolution.
Kenneth R. Miller,
Brown University. |
| 3:15 – 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 – 4:15 |
Beyond "he said, she said:" How to be fair when the debate isn't balanced.
Lauri Lebo,
Lead local reporter in Dover. |
| 4:15 – 5:30 |
Panel discussion for the press with all speakers + Pepper Hamilton attorneys. |
Format: 45 minute talks (35 minutes / 10 min Q&A). This will be a full day event.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology/European Society for Evolutionary Biology Sponsored Symposium
- Symposium title: Integrative Studies of Evolutionary Processes
Organizer: Daphne Fairbairn, University of California, Riverside
List of Speakers:
- Rolf Hoeskstra, Rolf.Hoekstra@wur.nl, Wageningen University, Netherlands "The evolution of quorum sensing"
- Nick Colegrave, Edinburgh University, UK "Limits to adaptation: what can microbes in test tubes tell us?"
- Annie Schmitt, Brown University, USA "Adaptive evolution of Arabidopsis thaliana in
natural seasonal environments"
- Ben Sheldon, Oxford University, UK "Long-term evolution in ecologically-variable space"
- Isabelle Olivieri, University of Montpellier, France "The evolution
of dispersal and specialization in a fragmented habitat"
- Leena Lindstrom, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland "Assessing invasiveness:
genetic and phenotypic variation in an invasive species"
- Fred Nijhout, Duke University, USA "Developmental control and evolution
of body size"
- Frédéric Thomas, National Centre for Research, Montpellier,
France "Molecular convergence in host manipulation by parasites"
Format 30 minute talks (25 minutes/ 5 min questions). This will be a half day event.
SSB Sponsored Symposia
- Symposium Title: Species delimitation: new approaches for discovering diversity
Organizer: John J. Wiens, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University
List of speakers:
- Kevin de Queiroz, U.S. National Museum "Species concepts and
species delimitation"
- Lacey Knowles, University of Michigan "When do gene trees mislead?
Separating signal from noise in genealogical information"
- Marshal Hedin, San Diego State University "Species limits in naturally
fragmented systems"
- Jack Sullivan, University of Idaho "Detecting hybridization and species
limits with phylogeographic data"
- Loren Rieseberg, University of British Columbia "The nature of plant
species"
- Brad Shaffer and Robert Thomson, University of California at Davis "Species, SNPs, and
Systematics: Defining species in a post-genomic age"
- Leslie Rissler, University of Alabama, "Using niche modeling and phylogenetics
in species delimination"
- Chris Raxworthy, American Museum of Natural History "Using niche modeling
to discover new populations, new species, and cryptic species"
- John Wiens, Stony Brook University "Morphology, molecules, and species delimitation"
- Paul Hebert, Guelph University "DNA barcoding"
- Charles Godfray, Imperial College of London "Web-based taxonomy"
- Keith Crandall, Brigham Young University "Implications of species delimitation for conservation biology"
Format: Each speaker will give a ~17.5 minute presentation with ~2.5 minutes for questions. This will be a half day event. A discussion session is planned for whatever time is available following the last talk.
- Symposium title: Patterns of codiversification in specialized communities
Co-organizers: David Althoff and Kari Segraves, Syracuse University, NY
List of Speakers:
- Kari Segraves, Syracuse University, ôIntroductionö
- Scott Santos, Auburn University, ôSymbioses
in the sea: patterns of coevolution in host-Symbiodinium (symbiotic
dinoflagellate) associationsö
- Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Coevolutionary dynamics within the fungus-growing antûmicrobe
quadripartite symbiosis"
- ohn Stireman, Wright State University, "Cascading
host-associated differentiation in insect communities and the evolutionary
diversification of parasitic insects"
- Atsushi Kawakita, Kyoto University, "Comparing
patterns of parallel diversification across independent origins
of obligate mutualism in the Epicephala-Phyllanthaceae association"
- George Weiblen, University of Minnesota, "Cophylogeny
of figs, pollinators, parasites and parasitoids"
- Carlos Machado, University of Arizona, ôThe
evolutionary history of the fig-fig wasp mutualismö
- Olle Pellmyr, University of Idaho, "Oh, the
tangled webs they weave: evolutionary diversification in yuccas
and yucca moths"
- David Althoff, Syracuse University, ôDiversification
in yucca moths and their parasitoidsö
Format: Each talk to be 30 minutes. This will be a half day event.
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