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FRIDAY, MAY 31
9:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
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| 9:00 am |
Welcome and Introduction |
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| 9:10 am |
Plenary: The Importance of the Tree of Life to Society
Terry Yates
Department of Biology,
University of New Mexico |
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| 10:00 am |
Bacteria and Archaea
W. Ford Doolittle
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,
Program in Evolutionary Biology,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Dalhousie University |
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| 10:30 am |
The Origin and Radiation of Eukaryotes
Philippe Hervé
Charge de Recherche,
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique |
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| 11:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:30 am |
The Early Radiation of Green Plants
Charles Delwiche
Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics,
University of Maryland |
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| 12:00 pm |
The Radiation of Vascular Plants and Seed Plants
Kathleen Pryer
Department of Biology,
Duke University |
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12:30–
2:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
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| 2:00 pm |
The Diversification of Flowering Plants
Pamela Soltis
Florida Museum of Natural History and the Genetics Institute,
University of Florida |
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| 2:30 pm |
The Diversification of Mushrooms and their Relatives
Rytas Vilgalys
Department of Biology,
Duke University |
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| 3:00 pm |
Protostomes and Platyhelminthes
Timothy Littlewood
Department of Zoology,
The Natural History Museum |
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| 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break
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| 4:00 pm |
Mollusks
David Lindberg
Museum of Paleontology,
University of California, Berkeley |
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| 4:30 pm |
Annelids
Mark Siddall
Division of Invertebrate Zoology,
American Museum of Natural History |
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| 5:00 pm |
Plenary: Using the Tree of Life to Understand Development
Sean Carroll
R.M. Block Laboratories,
University of Wisconsin at Madison
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