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October 11, 1994, at the California
Academy of Sciences
Has
the
Linnaean hierarchy outlived its usefulness?:
Introduction by Jacques Gauthier (CAS) followed by short
commentaries by John Strother and Brent Mishler (both University
Herbaria, UC Berkeley).
Host: Michael Ghiselin, CAS
November 8, 1994, at San Francisco
State University
New
and old techniques in
understanding patterns of rarity: Peggy Fiedler (Biology, San
Francisco State University) [discussion and presentation].
Host: Mike Vasey, SFSU
December 13, 1994, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Is the fossil record adequate for
addressing
questions of ecology and evolution?: Discussion by Mikhael
Fedonkin
(Paleontological Institute, Moscow and Visiting Miller Professor in
Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) and Jere Lipps and James Valentine
(both Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley).
Host: William Clemens, UC Berkeley
January 10, 1995, at California Academy
of Sciences
The
economics of the fossil record: Geerat Vermeij (Geology, UC Davis)
Host: Patricia Dal Porto, CAS
February 14, 1995, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Evolution
of the Hawaiian
silverswords:
Bruce Baldwin (Jepson Herbarium and Integrative
Biology, UC Berkeley), followed by tours of the University and Jepson
Herbaria
in their brand new quarters in the Valley Life Sciences Building.
Host: William Z. Lidicker, Jr., UC Berkeley
March 14, 1995, at the University of
California, Davis
Monocot
relationships -- molecules
and morphology: Geeta
Bharathan (Esau Fellow, Agronomy and Range
Science, UC Davis), followed by discussion on conflicts between data
sets
in phylogenetic analysis and approaches for resolving them.
Host: James A. Doyle, UC Davis
April 11, 1995, at California State
University, Hayward
Sympatric
speciation in the apple maggot fly revisited:
Susan Opp (Biological Sciences, CSU Hayward).
Host: Rolf Benseler, CSU Hayward
Saturday, May 13, 1995, at Bodega Bay
Marine Laboratory
Recognition
and speciation in the sea:
Presentations by Richard K. Grosberg (Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis)
and Stephen R. Palumbi (Zoology, University of Hawaii), followed by a
tour of the Bodega Bay Marine Lab.
Host: Dennis Hedgecock, Bodega Bay Marine Lab
October 17, 1995, at California Academy
of Sciences
Research and conservation in the
Galapagos:
Matt James, John McCosker, and Marc Miller.
Host: Michael Ghiselin, CAS
November 14, 1995 at California State
University, Sonoma
Recent
molecular studies of avian phylogeny:
Charles G. Sibley (CSU Sonoma), plus a demonstration of a
computerized Birds of the World.
Host: Chuck Quibell, California State University, Sonoma
December 12, 1995, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Annie
Montague Alexander and the Berkeley natural history
museums:
Barbara R. Stein (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC
Berkeley)
Host: William Z. Lidicker, Jr., UC Berkeley
January 16, 1996, at Stanford
University
Seeing
the phylogeny through the
trees: John Hulsenbeck
(Miller Postdoctoral Fellow,
Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley)
February 13, 1996, at San Francisco
State University
Species and speciation in asexual
organisms: Each of
four panelists gave a 10-15 minute perspective focused on a different
group of organisms. Panelists included Michael Ghiselin (Invertebrate
Zoology and Geology, CAS), invertebrates, David Jameson (Herpetology,
CAS), herps, Brent Mishler (University and Jepson Herbaria, UC
Berkeley), mosses, and, Patricia Sanchez (Integrative Biology, UC
Berkeley) on ferns.
Host: Michael Goldman, San Francisco State University
March 12, 1996, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Leaf
beetles: defensive secretions, host plant relationships,
genetic differentiation at local and regional scales, and phylogeny of
species:
Nathan Rank (Biology, Sonoma State University)
Co-hosts: Jerry Powell and William Z. Lidicker, Jr., UC Berkeley
April 9, 1996, at the University of
California, Davis
Surfing
in treespace: Phylogenetic databases and the
prospects for constructing the phylogeny of life:
Michael Sanderson (Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis)
Host: James A. Doyle, UC Davis
September 10, 1996, at the University
of California, Berkeley
Explaining
modern systematics to a
broader audience:
Panel discussion by Judy Scotchmoor (Museum of Paleontology, UC
Berkeley), David Lindberg (Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley), and
Samuel Taylor, with Michael Ghiselin (CAS) serving as moderator.
Host: William Z. Lidicker, Jr., UC Berkeley
October 15, 1996, at the California
Academy of Sciences
The
evolution of
androdioecy: Insights from the California endemic flowering plant Datsica
glomerata:
Peter Fritsch (Botany, CAS)
Host: Frank Almeda, CAS
November 12, 1996, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Setting
priorities for conservation biology:
species, clades, or communities?:
Roundtable discussion. It seems there is a tension, brought
on by current political and financial limitations, among three poles of
opinion: the traditional endangered species approach, the current push
for conservation via community protection, and the recent calls for
setting conservation priorities using clades. We don't want to overly
polarize the situation, because there is obviously much common ground,
but Bay Area biologists should seriously consider the merits of these
distinctly different strategies for conservation prioritization. Ten
minute introductory and position statements were made by three people,
Barbara Ertter (University Herbarium, UC Berkeley) on species-based
approaches, Michael Barbour (Environmental Horticulture, UC Davis) on
community-based approaches and Brent Mishler (University and Jepson
Herbaria, UC Berkeley) on clade-based approaches.
Host: Steven Jessup, UC Berkeley
December 10, 1996, at San Francisco
State University
The
interface between population genetics and systematics:
Eric Routman (Biology, San Francisco State University)
Host: Robert Patterson, San Francisco State University
January 14, 1997, at Stanford
University
Phylogeny
and comparative functional ecology of plants:
David Ackerly (Biological Sciences, Stanford)
Host: Ward B. Watt, Stanford University
February 11, 1997, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Gulls
in the Pacific Northwest: hybrid swarms or
hybrid zone?:
Douglas A. Bell (Birds and Mammals, California Academy
of Sciences)
Host: Barbara Stein, UC Berkeley
March 11, 1997, at Sonoma State
University
DNA versus morphology for phylogeny
reconstruction: Panel discussion. Each of the four panelists
gave a 10-minute statement
before general discussion. The idea was not to overly polarize the
situation, but to frankly explore different viewpoints and their
implications for research priorities. Some major issues are how to
integrate data from different genes and genomes and whether morphology
or other "whole organism" information, such as physiology, ecology, or
behavior should also be integrated (and if so, how?). Panelists were
chosen from a spectrum of viewpoints and organismal specialties, and
included Brett Goebel (from Norm Pace's lab in Plant and Microbial
Biology, UC Berkeley) representing the microbial world and RNA
phylogenetics, Charles Sibley (Sonoma State Univ.), representing
vertebrate phylogenetics and DNA-based approaches, Michael Ghiselin
(Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, and Center for the History and
Philosophy of Science, CAS), representing invertebrate phylogenetics
and synthetic approaches, and Brent Mishler (University and Jepson
Herbaria, UC Berkeley), who will represent plant phylogenetics and
advocate the inclusion of morphology.
Co-hosts: Nathan Rank and Phil Northen, San Francisco State University
April 8, 1997, at the California
Academy of Sciences
A
smoking gun has been found: coroner reports death by
multiple stab wounds (causal factors of extinction at the close of the
Cretaceous):
William Clemens (Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley)
Host: Michael Ghiselin, CAS
May 13, 1997, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Genetic
diversity for clonal forest plantations: If you've
seen one monoclonal plantation, have you seen them all?:
Bill Libby (Forestry and Resource Management, UC
Berkeley)
Host: Barbara Ertter, UC Berkeley
September 9, 1997, at the University of
California, Berkeley
The
meaning of higher taxonomic categories and the
problems faced by those who must use higher category data for
macroevolutionary studies:
Open discussion, with a few invited commentators, prominent
among them being James Valentine (Integrative Biology and Museum of
Paleontology, UC Berkeley) and Michael Ghiselin (Invertebrate Zoology
and Geology, CAS).
Host: Brent Mishler, UC Berkeley
October 14, 1997, at the University of
California, Davis
H. Brad Shaffer and James Doyle (both of Evolution and Ecology, UC
Davis) each discussed issues related to the integration of fossil and
systematic evidence in the reconstruction of phylogenetic history,
followed by lively discussion of the usual sort.
Host: Michael Sanderson, UC Davis
November 11, 1997, at the Romberg
Tiburon Center
San
Francisco Bay: The Invaded Estuary: Andy Cohen (San Francisco Bay Estuarine
Institute)
The
impact of the introduced clam, Potamocorbula
amurensis, on the food web of northern San Francisco Bay: Fred Nichols (US
Geological Survey)
Host: Steve Obrebski, San Francisco State University
December 9, 1997, at the California
Academy of Sciences
Some
theoretical
issues in phylogenetics: Joe
Slowinski (Herpetology, CAS)
Host: Tomio Iwamoto, CAS
January 13, 1998, at the University of
California, Berkeley
The
comparative method in evolutionary biology: an example using the
distribution of polyploidy in land plants: Kelly Steele (Biological Sciences, CSU Hayward)
Host: Bruce Baldwin, UC Berkeley
February 10, 1998, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Genomics:
New insights into microbial evolution:
Martin Wojciechowski (Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis,
& Museum of Paleontology and the University/Jepson Herbaria, UC
Berkeley)
Host: Dennis Wall, UC Berkeley
March 10, 1998, at the California
Academy of Sciences
Systematics
and its audiences:
Panel presentation by Kevin Padian (Integrative Biology and Museum of
Paleontology, UC Berkeley), Terry Gosliner (Invertebrate Zoology and
Geology, CAS) and Michael Ghiselin (Invertebrate Zoology and Geology,
CAS). William Clemens (UC
Berkeley) substituted for Kevin Padian.
Host: David Kavanaugh, CAS
April 14, 1998, at University of
California, Davis
Measures
of
support for cladograms:
Presentations by Brent Mishler (University and Jepson
Herbaria, UC Berkeley), and Michael Sanderson (Evolution and Ecology,
UC Davis) and spirited discussion.
Host: Martin Wojciechowski, UC Berkeley and UC Davis
May 12, 1998, at Stanford University
Island Biogeography: A 30-year
Retrospective: Point and counterpoint
with David Stoddard (Geography, UC Berkeley) and Joan Roughgarden
(Biological Sciences, Stanford University). Brent Mishler (University
and Jepson Herbaria, UC Berkeley) substituted for D. Stoddard.
Host: David Ackerly, Stanford
October 13, 1998, at the University of
California, Davis
Is
alpha-taxonomy a terminal science?:
Phil Ward (Entomology, UC Davis) and Ellen Dean (Herbarium and Plant
Biology, UC Davis) each presented their perspectives, followed by a
lively
discussion.
Host: Dan Potter, UC Davis
November 10, 1998, at the University
of California, Berkeley
Phylogenetic
biogeography of the Northern Hemisphere: a plan?:
Michael Donoghue (Director of the Harvard University Herbaria and
Visiting Professor at Stanford University)
Hosts: Martin Wojciechowski, UC Berkeley/Davis
December 8, 1998, at the University of
California, Berkeley
The future of systematics: A
perspective from practitioners, teachers,
and future leaders of the field: Panel discussion moderated by
Kelly
P. Steele (Cal State University, Hayward) with presentations and
discussion by postdoctoral scientists Elizabeth Arias (Chile) from UC
Davis, and Katarina Andreasen (Sweden), John Wheeler (USA), and Dean
Kelch (USA) from U.C. Berkeley on topics dealing the future of
systematics at both the personal and global level.
Hosted by: Bruce Baldwin, UC Berkeley
January 19, 1999, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Phyloecology,
a valuable
integration of fields?:
Panel discussion organized and led by UC
Berkeley graduate students. Dennis Wall provided an introduction to the
session, with presentations by the following students: Mike Catarino
(perspective from insect molecular systematics), Dan Rubinoff
(perspective from conservation biology), Chrissy Hufford (applicability
of phylogeny to studies of octopus behavior, or lack thereof), Paul
Bunje (broad perspective of ecology and phylogeny), and Matt Henn
(strict ecologist's perspective).
Host: John Wheeler, UC Berkeley
February 9, 1999, at the University of
California, Davis
The
desert fishes: case studies in conservation
biology, with special attention to the Death Valley/Ash Meadows and
Colorado River Fishes:
Martin Brittan (California State University, Sacramento), with an
introduction by Peter Moyle (UC Davis).
Dinner and the presentation were held at the Ding How Restaurant, 640
E. Covell Blvd.
Host: Art Shapiro, UC Davis
March 9, 1999, at the California
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
The
phyletic position of the Neandertals
and the origin of modern humans:
Nina Jablonski (Department of Anthropology, CAS) and Jerold Lowenstein
(UC San Francisco and Nuclear Medicine Inc.) gave presentations and led
a discussion, particularly with respect to the
impact of recent molecular evidence on this subject. The social hour
and meeting were held in the Goethe Room.
Host: Peter Fritsch, CAS
April 1999. There was no meeting.
May 11, 1999, at the University of
California, Davis
Studying
adaptation with functional morphology and
phylogenies:
Peter Wainwright (Section of Evolution and Ecology, UC
Davis)
Host: H. Bradley Shaffer, UC Davis
October 19, 1999, at the California
Academy of Sciences
The
evolution of chemical defense in Opisthobranch gastropods:
Michael Ghiselin (California Academy of Sciences). The talk was
illustrated with slides of Opisthobranchs, contenders for title of
"prettiest critters in the ocean."
Host: Tomio Iwamoto, California Academy of
Sciences
November 9, 1999, at the University of
California, Davis
Building
large phylogenies:
supertrees, compartmentalization, or global parsimony, with examples
from the carnivores and land plants:
Discussion led by Olaf Bininda-Emonds (UC Davis) and Brent Mishler (UC
Berkeley).
Host: Michael Sanderson, UC Davis
December 14, 1999. No meeting held.
January 18, 2000, at San Francisco
State University
Phylogenetic
history of adaptive radiations: What do you expect
to discover, and how do you find the answer?:
Rosemary Gillespie (Essig Museum of Entomology, UC
Berkeley) and George Roderick (Division of Insect Biology, UC Berkeley)
Host: Susan Masta, SFSU
February 8, 2000, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Evolutionary studies
strategy needs as biodiversity collapses?: Open forum organized,
led, and
recorded by Harold Kerster (CSU at Sacramento). Dinner and forum were
held at the Ichiban resturant in Berkeley. Questions explored included:
A. Should we simply let the conservation biology community handle the
questions (and maybe tell us the answers and who we should contact for
the money)?
B. How do we decide which taxa most need attention?
C. How do we decide which kinds of data most need attention?
D. Which kinds of data (behavior, DNA, range in space or ecosystems,
everything not in a museum, etc) most need attention?
E. How important is backward compatability with paleontological
material? F. How could we estimate urgency?
G. What are the differences between the needs of systematists and the
needs of process workers (evolutionary outcomes versus evolutionary
process)?
Host: Brent Mishler, UC Berkeley
March 14, 2000, at Sonoma State
University
Paradigms in crisis: New perspectives
on the evolutionary origins of
birds and the biology of dinosaurs: Nicholas Geist,
Department of Biology, Sonoma State University. Topics included: 1)
origin of birds (emphasizing flight and feathers); 2) were dinosaurs
endothermic or not?; 3) did dinosaurs have altricial young?
Host: Derek Girman, SSU
April 11, 2000, at the Romberg Tiburon
Center, Marin County
Adaptive
radiation in Hawaiian Daisies: Insights
from genetics: Richard
Whitkus, Department of Biology, Sonoma State
University
Host: Steve Obrebski, Romberg Tiburon Center (San Francisco State
University)
May 9, 2000, at the The Carnegie
Institution of Washington, Stanford University
Towards a new synthesis of genomics
and phylogenetics: An
exploration of the ways in which comparative phylogenetic studies can
inform functional genomic studies, and vice-versa. This special meeting
(see
complete announcement) took place at one of the ancestral homes of
the Biosystematists, the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW), and
featured a "reunion" of two fields (genomics and phylogenetics) that
are both new and cutting edge and yet, in their previous incarnations
(as cytogenetics and systematics), were first linked together in a
novel way by the Biosystematists group in the 1930's and 1940's. The
meeting was hosted by Christopher Somerville (CIW, Stanford University)
who opened the meeting with a welcome and presented an overview of the
history of the Carnegie Institution, its transformation to the present,
and some current research projects going on at the institution.
Following introductions by Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley), short
presentations on different aspects on the topic were provided by:
Brent Mishler - background on phylogenetics, and how it can inform
functional studies.
Shauna Somerville (Stanford University): background on genomics,
current progress, and the future.
Pam Soltis (Washington State University): a phylogenetics case study,
chromosomal evolution in the flowering plants.
Virginia Walbot (Stanford University): a genomics case study, what are
we learning from maize?
October 12, 2000, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Insect
antiquity: evidence from fossils,
phylogeny and biogeography:
Peter Cranston and Penny Gullan, both new faculty members in the
Department of Entomology at the University of California in Davis,
presented, emphasizing their work on midges and scale
insects, respectively.
Host: Bruce Baldwin, UC Berkeley
November 14, 2000, at San Francisco
State University
A panel discussion of rank-free phylogenetic classification,
particularly with respect to the species level, led by Jay Withgott
(San Francisco-based freelance writer) who introduced the general
issues based on his recent article in BioScience,followed by
Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley), Phil Ward (UC Davis), and Bruce Baldwin
(UC Berkeley) who gave their points of view on the topic.
Host: Eric Routman, SFSU
December 12, 2000. No meeting held.
January 18, 2001, at the California
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
The
influence of taxon sampling on
phylogenetic recontruction:
Steve Poe, a Miller Fellow in the Department of Integrative Biology at
UC Berkeley, led a discussion, with some examples from Anolislizards.
Host: Joseph Slowinski, CAS
February 13, 2001, at Sonoma State
University, Rohnert Park
A
phylogeny for every plant bearing seed: novel
implications and lingering reservations:
Susana Magallon (Section of Evolution and Ecology) and Robert Kuzoff
(Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology) of the University of
California, Davis, discussed recent advances in seed plant phylogeny
and evolution.
Host: Richard Whitus, SSU
March 13, 2001, at the University of
California, Berkeley
[An
introduction to] Phylogeography in relation to
conservation biology:
Craig Moritz, the new Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at
UC Berkeley presented and included examples from his work in Australia.
Host: William Z. Lidicker, Jr., UC Berkeley
April 12, 2001, at the University of
California, Davis
Tom Near (Center for Population Biology ) and Michael Sanderson
(Section of Evolution and Ecology) of the University of California,
Davis, each gave short presentations and led a discussion of "Current
thinking on molecular clocks", using examples from their own
work on
fishes and angiosperms, respectively.
Hosts: Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston, UC Davis.
May 3, 2001, at the DOE JGI, Walnut
Creek, CA
Comparative genomics at the Joint
Genome Institute: molecular
evolution at 20 million nucleotides per day: This special
meeting took
place at the Joint Genome Institute,
one of the largest facilities in the world for high-throughput genomic
DNA sequencing studies, operated by the University of California for
the U.S. Department of Energy. Jeffrey Boore, the Group Leader in
Comparative Genomics, presented an overview of the JGI and outlined
some of the scientific challenges and opportunities for comparative
genomics at this facility. This was followed by a program of short
presentations by several members of the JGI scientific staff (Allen
Haim, Kevin Helfenbein, Monica Medina, Matt Fourcade, Dan Rokhsar) on
the operation the institute and an introduction to a number of on-going
projects in his group. Tours of the facility were provided.
Host: Jeffrey Boore, JGI
September 2001. No meeting held.
October 11, 2001, at University of
California, Berkeley
The
Parasites of Primates: Phylogenetic Approaches to Understanding the
Correlates of Biodiversity:
Charlie Nunn, a postdoctoral fellow working with Mike Sanderson
(University of California, Davis). An informal tour of the Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology, conducted by museum post-docs and graduate students
preceded the talks.
Host: Carrine Blank, graduate student UC Berkeley
November 13th, 2001, at the University
of California, Davis
Strepsiptera
- long branches, misinterpreted
fossils and neontology:
Mike Whiting of Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
Hosts: Peter Cranston and Penny Gullan UC Davis
December 4th, 2001, at the Cal Academy
of Sciences
Professor Dr. Gerhard Haszprunar, Molluscan Systematist, Direktor of
the Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, and visiting Miller Professor
at Berkeley, accepted an invitation to address the gathering,
controversially, on "Paraphyly
revisited."
Host: Patricia Dal Porto, California Academy of Sciences
January 10th, 2002, at the University
of California, Davis
Bayes
or Bootstrap: How should we assess confidence in our
phylogenetic results?:
Michael Alfaro, a postdoc of Phylogenetics at UC Davis
Hosts: H. Brad Shaffer UC Davis
February 12th, 2002, at the University
of California, Berkeley
Systematics
and Conservation
Biology: Panel discussion
led by Gretchen LeBuhn, from San Francisco State
University. The panelists were Craig Moritz, Mark Reynolds, Brad
Schaffer,
Taylor Ricketts, and Dennis Desjardin.
Host: Catherine Graham of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (UC Berkeley)
March 12th, 2002, at the University of
California, Berkeley
Were
the
first flowering plants shady and disturbed? Ecological inferences from
extant early-branching lineages:
Taylor Feild (Miller Fellow with the Department of Integrative Biology
and the University and Jepsen Herbaria) [ABSTRACT]
Hosts: Elizabeth Wenk of the Dawson Lab, UC Berkeley
April 18th, 2002, at the California
Academy of Sciences
What did
Haeckel really mean by 'Phylogeny'?: Benoit Dayrat a postdoc at the
California Academy of Sciences, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and
Geology. [ABSTRACT]
Host: Patricia Dal Porto of the California Academy of Sciences
May 28th, 2002, at the University of
California at Berkeley,
An informal open discussion about phylogeography began with a
panel of UC Berkeley grad students and post-docs. Diogo Meyer and Shawn
Kuchta, started by asking how phylogeography uses population genetics.
Other panelists from a more cladistic phylogeographic approach included
Kirsten Fisher and Emina Begovic.
Host: Joao Alexandrino, a post-doc of
David Wake and Craig Moritz in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
September 16th, 2002, at the University
of California at Berkeley
Cladistic analysis of
morphological data: a scientific cul de sac?: Robert Scotland
(Oxford University)
Host: Prof. Kip Will, ESPM UC Berkeley.
October 2002: No Meeting held
November 12th, 2002, at the University
of California at Davis,
Amy Driskell of the Sanderson lab (UC Davis) presented data and
ideas from
her studies of Avian evolution in
southern Australia, with special
consideration of the effects of the Nullabor (aridification) and Bass
Strait (rising and falling).
Host: Prof. Pete Cranston, UC Davis.
December 10th, 2002 at UC
Berkeley
Behavior and Evolution: Panel
discussion featuring Jack T. Tomlinson, Prof. Emeritus, San Francisco
State U.,
Bill Lidicker, Prof. Emeritus, UCB, Walt Koenig, Adjunct Pressor, UCB.
Host: Prof. Brent Mishler, UC Berkeley.
January 2002
Meeting was cancelled.
February 12th, 2003 at UC Berkeley
A Radical Darwinian
solution to a conflict of 150 years between classification and
evolution:
Benoit Dayrat of the Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, Calif.
Academy of Sciences. ABSTRACT
Host: Prof. Kipling Will, UC Berkley
March 11th, 2003 at UC Berkeley
Getting Rid of Species?!? What are the
theoretical and practical consequences of eliminating the species
rank?:
A panel discussion including Brent Mishler, Bill Lidicker, and Kip
Will.
Background reading was: http://persoon.si.edu/sbs2001/Mishler.pdf.
Host: Prof. Bruce Baldwin, UC Berkeley.
April 8th, 2003 at the NASA Ames Research Center
Worms, Tropomodulin, and
Spaceflight:
Dr. Catharine A. Conley (Cassie) of the NASA Ames
Research Center. The talk included future flight possibilities and
recent
experiment on the last shuttle flight.
Host: Dr. Catharine A. Conley, NASA Ames
May 8th, 2003 at UC Davis
Hard Choices, Determining the Biotic
Units Worthy of
Conservation:
Leslee Parr, Danielle Palmer, and Valliammal Chockalingham of San Jose
State University, Department of Biological Sciences.
Host: Brad Shaffer, Section of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
September 9th, 2003 at California Academy of Sciences
The Contest Between Likelihood and
Parsimony in
Phylogenetic Inference:
Elliott Sober, Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University
Host: Benoit Dayrat, Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, Calif.
Academy of Sciences
October 14th, 2003 at UC Berkeley
Homology, ontogeny, and, phylogeny:
evolution of floral form in the
legume tribe Amorpheae:
Shelley McMahon (postdoc at UC Davis)
Host: Rosemary Gillespie, UC Berkeley
November 11th, 2003 at UC Davis
Phylogenomics and comparative genomics:
Paramvir Dehal, Postdoctoral Associate at the Joint Genome Institute
Host: Mike Sanderson, UC Davis.
December 9th, 2003 at UC Berkeley
LUCID and other multi-access
keys:
Peter Cranston (UC Davis)
Synthesis of North
American Flora webproject: Chris Meacham (UC Berkeley)
Host: Peter Oboyski, UC Berkeley
January 13th., 2004 at California Academy of Sciences
The future of publishing in systematics:
Camilla Myers of CSIRO Publishing, and Chuck Crumly, biology editor for
the UC Press.
Host: Peter Roopnarine, Department of Invertebrate
Zoololgy & Geology, CAS
February 12th, 2004 at UC Berkeley
Untangling fecal shield architecture
in
tortoise beetles: behavior, ecology, morphology and phylogeny
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae):
Caroline Chaboo (American
Museum of Natural History), preceded by a Darwin Day celebration and
toast in the Essig Museum of
Entomology
Host: Steve Lew, UC Berkeley ABSTRACT
March 9th, 2004 at UC Berkeley
On Probability and
Systematics:
Matt Haber (UC Davis)
Host: Jim Mcguire, UC Berkeley ABSTRACT
April 13th, 2004 at San Jose State University
Does Barcoding Work? An Empirical
Test:
Christopher Meyer (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of
Florida)
Host: Leslee Parr, San Jose State ABSTRACT
May 13th, 2004 at UC Davis
Mr.
Bayes meets the tree of life: the use of Bayesian methods
in systematics: Panel discussion and talks featuring Jimmy McGuire (UC Berkeley), Peter Roopnarine
(California
Academy of Sciences) and Gordon Burleigh (UC Davis)
Host: Phil Ward, UC Davis.
September 14th, 2004 at UC Berkeley
The Role of Species Paraphyly in
Phylogenetics and Comparative Analysis:
Dr. Geoffrey Morse (Department of Entomology, University of
Massachusetts) spoke and led a discussion. ABSTRACT
Hosted by: student volunteers from the Will and Mishler labs (UC
Berkeley)
October 14, 2004 at the California Academy of Sciences
The program included a report on the Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting
by local attending systematists including: Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley),
Kevin Padian (UC Berkeley), Kirsten Fisher (UC Berkeley), Benoit Dayrat
(CAS), and Matt Haber (UC Davis).
Hosted by Ken Angielczyk of the Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology and
Geology.
November 9th, 2004 at UC Davis
Comparative Methods and Bacterial
Genome Evolution:
Pilar Francino (Scientist at DOE Joint Genome Institute)
Sexually selected morphology in
stalk-eyed flies: Rick
Baker (Postdoctoral Researcher, DOE Joint Genome Institute)
Hosted by: Wesley Savage (UC Davis)
December 14th, 2004 at UC Berkeley
Alignment of Sequence data:
Panel discussion and presentations moderated by
Kip Will (UC Berkeley) and including individuals from UCB, UCD, CAS and
CDFA. ABSTRACT
Hosted by: Kip Will (UC Berkeley)
January 11th, 2005 at California
Academy of Sciences
Posterior probabilities for
phylogenies: too good to be true?: Bruce Rannala (Genome Center
& Section of Evolution and
Ecology, UC Davis)
Hosted by: Jack Dumbacher (California
Academy of Sciences)
February 8th, 2005 at UC Berkeley
Darwin Day Events at UC Berkeley including an open house at the Essig
Museum and a lecture entitled, "Setting
the Record Straight (vignettes
on modern Darwinism and anti-evolutionism)."
ABSTRACT
Hosted by: Kip Will (UC Berkeley)
March 17th, 2005 at UC Berkeley
David L. Hull (Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University) responded
to an impromptu series of questions from a graduate student panel
organized by Eric Harris (UC Berkeley). The topics ranged across
evolutionary biology, touching on Professor Hull's diverse interests in
the theory of natural selection, species concepts, and history &
sociology of science.
Hosted by: Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley) DETAILS
April 12th, 2005 at San Jose State University
Several field biologists presented shorts talks:
Sampling the upper branches of
redwoods: Chris
Brinegar and Ryan Kirkbride (SJSU)
Permits for bugs down-under: Penny Gullan, (UC Davis)
Shooting insects from a plane - some
South
African tales: Pete Cranston (UC Davis)
Sampling South American river
dolphins: Healy Hamilton (CAS)
Entomologizing in South America:
Alex Wild (UC Davis)
Hosted by: Leslee Parr (SJSU)
May 17th 2005 at UC Davis
Comparative Biology without Occult
Metaphysics, or, Der Bauplan ist ein Aberglaube:
Dr. Michael Ghiselin, Senior Research Fellow at the California Academy
of Sciences
Hosted by: Shelley McMahon (UC Davis)
September 13th, 2005 at UC Berkeley
A panel of researchers discussed the issues involved in using trees for
comparative methods and how they select trees for their research.
Panel: Gordon Burleigh (UC Davis); Rich Glor (UC Davis); Jim McGuire
(UC Berkeley); Charlie Nunn (UC Berkeley); Moderator: Brian O'Meara (UC
Davis)
Hosted by: Bruce Baldwin (UC Berkeley)
October 13th, 2005 at San Francisco State University
Theory and practice of integrating
molecular data into taxonomy at the
species level:
Greg Spicer of San Francisco State University
Hosted by: Greg Spicer (San Francisco State University)
November 8, 2005 at University of California, Davis.
Systematic Monographs in the 21st
Century: traditional values and modern innovations
Grad student panel: Danica Harbaugh (UC Berkeley), Andy Murdock (UC
Berkeley), Cheryl O'Donnell (UC Davis), Ainsley Seago (UC Berkeley),
and Alex Wild (UC Davis).
Hosted by: Justen Whittall (UC Davis)
December 13, 2005 at California Academy of Sciences.
Three P's in a pod: tales from the phylogeny, phylogenomics, and
phylodiversity of legumes
Marty Wojciechowsky (Arizona State U)
Mike Sanderon (UC Davis)
Shelley McMahon (UC Davis)
Host: Healy Hamilton (California Academy of Sciences)
January 17, 2006 at University of California, Berkeley
Evolutionary Morphology and Evo-devo: Hierarchy and Novelty
Alan Love (UC Santa Cruz)
Host: Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley)
February14, 2006 at University of California, Berkeley
The Continuing Darwinian Revolution: Michael Ghiselin
(California Academy of Sciences)
Intelligent Design: A view from the trial: Kevin Padian (UC
Berkeley)
From Galapagos to the Genome: Evolutionary Biology in the 21st
Century: Patrick O'Grady (UC Berkeley)
Host: Kip Will (UC Berkeley)
Link to program flyer (118 kb PDF)
March 14, 2006 at the California Academy of Sciences
Collecting Evolution: The Unintended Vindication of Darwin by the
1905-06 Galapagos expedition of the California Academy of Sciences:
Matthew James (Sonoma State U.)
Host: Healy Hamilton (California Academy of Sciences)
April 18, 2006 at San Francisco State University
An introduction to coalescence theory: exploring the interface
between between phylogenetics and population genetics
Featuring an introductory talk by Monty Slatkin (UC Berkeley), followed
by general discussion, a computer demonstration by Eric Routman (San
Francisco State University), and a chance for some hands-on use of
Mesquite.
Host: Eric Routman (San Francisco State University)
May 9, 2006 at UC Davis
Too many beetles, too little time: Morphology, chromosomes, gene
trees, and the phylogenetics of beetle species: David Maddison (U
of Arizona).
Hosts: Fran Keller and Michael Branstetter (both of UC Davis)
September 18, 2007 at University of California, Berkeley
Panel discussion on genomic approaches to evolution and systematics: Nancy Moran, University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Jason Stajich, UCB, Plant and Microbial Biology Dan Pollard, UCB, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Host: Stephen Lew, University of California, Berkeley
Organizer: Patrick O'Grady, University of California, Berkeley
October 16th, 2007 at California Academy of Sciences
Genomics as a tool in studying the evolution and diversity of the small things that run the planet: Jonathan Eisen, University of California, Davis
Host: Healy Hamilton, California Academy of Sciences
November 13th, 2007 at University of California, Berkeley
Exploring the Impact of Historical Events on Rates of Diversification: Phylogenetic Approaches with Examples from Flowering Plants: Brian Moore, Yale University
Host: Patrick O'Grady, University of California, Berkeley
December 13, 2007 at University of California, Davis
A panel discussion on the topic: "What is deserving of a name? Four modern approaches to species delimitation"
Panel: Philip Ward (UC Davis), Howard Ochman (University of Arizona, on sabbatical at UC Berkeley), Benoît Dayrat (UC Merced), and Douglas Stone (postdoctoral fellow, California Academy of Sciences).
Host: Michael Branstetter (UC Davis)
January, 2008: no meeting
February 12, 2008 at University of California, Berkeley
Four short talks celebrating Darwin Day, on the topic: "Darwin's influences on modern day biosystematics in the broad sense, including ecology, evolution and systematics: historical context & modern research."
Kristy Deiner (UC Davis) - "Darwinism in modern ecology"
Benoit Dayrat (UC Merced) - "Systematics in the Genomic Era: celebrating Darwin's 'other' legacy"
Peter Wainwright (UC Davis) - "Darwinism and the evolution of complex functional systems"
Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley - "Darwin's views on species in light of modern approaches"
Host: Anna Larsen (UC Berkeley)
March 13, 2008 at Sonoma State University
A panel discussion on the topic: "Evolutionary consequences of biological invasions"
Panel: Nathan Rank (Sonoma State), Kevin Rice, (UC Davis), Brad Shaffer (UC Davis).
Host: Nathan Rank (Sonoma State)
April 15, 2008 at California Academy of Sciences
Three short talks by graduate students on the topic: "Integrative and innovative: new approaches to systematics"
Matt Brandley (UC Berkeley) - "Emerging techniques in molecular divergence dating and their applications to biogeography and evolutionary biology"
Christina Piotrowski (California Academy of Sciences) - "Reconciling molecules and morphology: more than one way to sort a can of worms"
Chodon Sass (UC Berkeley) - "Climatic variables integrated into comparative phylogenetics of Aechmea (Bromeliaceae)"
Host: Healy Hamilton (California Academy of Sciences)
May 9, 2008 at Moss Landing Marine Lab
Three short talks on the topic: "From Museums to Molecules: dealing with the flow of genetic information in the natural sciences"
Josh Mackie (San Jose State) - "So can DNA sequence data help save the world?"
Wendy Moore (California Academy of Sciences) - "Molecules in 21st Century Natural History Museums"
Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley) - "Genomics and museums"
Hosts: Josh Mackie and Leslee Parr (San Jose State)