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Saturday,
June 1st |
Arrival
by dinner |
5:30-6:30pm |
Dinner |
7:00pm |
Opening plenary session in main assembly room
Tentative speakers (ca. 15
minutes each, plus some time for questions):
- Brent Mishler, Department of Integrative Biology,
UC Berkeley
"Welcome and logistics for meeting; introduction
to themes"
- Jim Rodman, Program Director, National Science
Foundation
"Update on the state of the PEET program, and related
activities, from the NSF perspective"
- Ferdinando Boero, DISTEBA, University of Lecce,
ITALY
"Prospects for the internationalization of PEET"
- Stan Blum, California Academy of Sciences
"Current status of biodiversity data managementand
interoperability of database"
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8:30pm |
Reception sponsored
by the Berkeley
Natural History Museums |
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Sunday,
June 2nd |
All
day sessions |
7:30-8:30am |
Breakfast |
8:45 - 10:45 |
"Connectivity:
PEET and other Big Initiatives in Biology" - David
Yeates, org.
This plenary session focused on fostering connections
between PEET projects and other new big ideas in biology such
as the All Species initiative, Species 2000, ITIS, Tree of Life,
Deep Green, comparative ecology, and genomics. Stan Blum (Californian
Academy of Sciences) addressed how PEET fits into the broader
biodiversity informatics environment in his talk on Saturday
night.
- 8:45-9:00: Ryan Phelan, CEO, All Species Foundation
"The
All Species initiative"
- 9:00-9:15: Brent Mishler, UC Berkeley
"The Tree of Life initiative"
- 9:15-9:30: David Yeates, CSIRO
"The
Convention on Biological Diversity, GTI and GBIF"
- 9:30-9:45: Gail Kampmeier, Illinois Natural History
Survey
"ITIS
- Inegrated Taxonomic Information System"
- 9:45-10:00: Jeff Boore, UC Berkeley & Joint
Genome Institute, DOE
"PEET,
Organismal Biology, and High-Throughput Genome Centers"
- 10:00-10:15: David Ackerly, Stanford
"Foundations
of Comparative Biology"
- 10:15-10:45: Discussion
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11:00-12:00pm |
Plenary session
on rank-free
classification (Paula DePriest) |
12:00
- 1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00 - 3:00 |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Illustration sessions 1,
2,
3/4
(see below for details)
- Session on writing scientific papers (Daphne Fautin, org.)
- Breakout discussion group on: comparative ecology and
systematics
- Breakout discussion group on: comparative genomics and
systematics
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3:00 - 5:00 |
Concurrent Sessions:
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5:30
- 6:30 |
Dinner |
7:30 |
Plenary session:
"A taxonomy
of species concepts:Concepts/Definitions"
(Ed Theriot, org.) |
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Monday,
June 3rd |
All
day sessions |
7:30-8:30 |
Breakfast |
8:45 - 10:45am |
"Morphology and the Mysteries of Character Coding"
- John Heraty, org.
- Brent D. Mishler, Department of Integrative Biology,
UC Berkeley
"Homology and character/character-state definitions"
(15 min.)
- Edward C. Theriot, Texas Memorial Museum of Science
and History, University of Texas at Austin
"Problems
and Promise in Coding Morphological Characters for Phylogenetic
Analysis " (15 min.)
- Chris Lambkin, CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra
"Problem
Characters - Missing data Inapplicable states Binary recoding"
- Meg Daly, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, University of Kansas "Why
weight? Independence, reliability, and information content
of morphological characters" (15 min.)
- John Heraty, Department of Entomology, UC Riverside
"Multistate
characters and reciprocal illumination" (15
min.)
- Miriam Zelditch, Museum of Paleontology, University
of Michigan
"The
Problem of Morphometric Data:Characterizing Shape"
(25 min)
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11:00-12:00 |
"Monographic
techniques and technologies -- how do molecular data and phylogenetics
relate?" - Student-run session; Wall and Buffington,
org. |
12:00
- 1:00pm |
Lunch
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1:00 - 3:00 |
Concurrent Sessions:
- Illustration sessions 1,
2,
3/4
(see below for details)
- Session on writing scientific papers (Daphne Fautin, org.)
- Breakout discussion group on: homology and Patterson's
paradigm
- Breakout discussion group on: character-state division
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3:00 - 5:00 |
Concurrent Sessions:
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5:30
- 6:30 |
Dinner |
Evening |
Student
poster session & mixer |
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Tuesday,
June 4th |
Field
trip day |
7:15-8:15 |
Breakfast
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8:30am sharp |
We left on tour buses for a full-day field trip, to show
each other our PEET organisms and have a chance for informal
walks and chats in nature. We traversed the Marin Peninsula
through oak savanna and redwood forest, coastal chaparral
and marshes, and ended up at Bodega Marine Lab.
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9:30 |
Arrived at Samuel
P. Taylor State Park, hiked in small groups according to
ability and/or interest. |
11:30 |
Gathered at picnic area
at for lunch, left at noon sharp. |
12:00pm sharp |
Departed for next destination |
1:00 |
Arrived at Bodega
Marine Lab. Hiked to Horseshoe Cove for low low tide at
1:15 pm to see rocky intertidal organisms. Then hiked around
in small groups to see the coastal prairie, dunes, and pond
(plus tours of the labs) |
4:30 |
Departed for return
via the Golden Gate Bridge to the California
Academy of Sciences |
6:30 |
Arrived at Cal Acad;
entered through main entrance: beer, chips, and salsa in Academy
Cafe. |
7:00 |
Dinner
buffet |
8:15 |
Visited Academy exhibits
and the Steinhart Aquarium |
9:45 |
Academy closes - buses
back to UC Berkeley |
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Wednesday,
June 5th |
Morning
session |
7:30-8:30 |
Breakfast |
9:00 - 10:00 |
Plenary session on strategies for establishing and
maintaining international collaborations and cooperative arrangements
in systematics, also covering tools for sharing primary data;
databases; web interfaces; electronic media and community
access
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10:15-11:45 |
Plenary session:
a wrap-up discussion drawing
conclusions and recommendations
about the main themes. |
12:00
- 1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00+ |
Departure after lunch
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Traditional
Means of Biological Illustration (Jody Martin to oversee)
- Use of the camera lucida, pen and ink techniques, stippling,
shading, carbon dust, trading, mounting as plates, lettering
etc..
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Computer
Assisted Drawing Techniques (J. Marie Mullett, org.)
- Computer assisted drawing, scanning, and manipulation
of images -- tools, techniques, and more.
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Digital
Photography and PhotoMontage (Mark Siddall)
- Digital macro- and microphotography, including photography
through dissecting and compound microscopes; assembly of
images via PhotoMontage; problems and solutions.
- How to manipulate, enhance, and improve the images; ways
to store and send images; how to produce final plates for
publication using digital images.
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