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SATURDAY, JUNE 1
9:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
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| 9:00 am |
Welcome and Introduction
Michael Novacek
Provost of Science,
American Museum of Natural History |
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| 9:10 am |
Plenary: The Importance of the Tree of Life
for Ecology and Conservation
Douglas Futuyma
Department of Ecology and Evolution,
State University of New York at Stony Brook |
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| 10:00 am |
Spiders and Relatives
Jonathan Coddington
Department of Entomology,
National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution |
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| 10:30 am |
Crustacea
Frederick Schram
Zoological Museum,
University of Amsterdam |
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| 11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 am |
Insect Evolution
Rainer Willmann
Zoologisches Institut der Universitat,
Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen |
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| 12:00 pm |
Holometabola
Michael Whiting
Department of Zoology,
Brigham Young University |
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12:30–
2:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
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| 2:00 pm |
Echinodermata/Hemichordata
Andrew Smith
Department of Palaeontology,
The Natural History Museum |
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| 2:30 pm |
Basal Vertebrates and Fishes
Melanie Stiassny
Department of Ichthyology,
American Museum of Natural History |
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| 3:00 pm |
Amphibians
David Cannatella
Section of Integrative Biology,
University of Texas at Austin |
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| 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break
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| 4:00 pm |
Turtles and Squamates
Michael Lee
Department of Zoology,
University of Queensland |
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| 4:30 pm |
Birds
Joel Cracraft
Department of Ornithology,
American Museum of Natural History |
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| 5:00 pm |
The History of Mammals
Maureen O'Leary
Department of Anatomical Sciences,
Health Science Center,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
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