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CONTENTS:
GENERAL INFORMATION ……….. PAGE 3 THE CONGRESS ……….. PAGE 4 CONGRESS PROGRAM ……….. PAGE 5
THE XXXIII CONGRESS OF THE WILLI HENNIG SOCIETY IS JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY WHS (WILLI HENNIG SOCIETY), MUSE (MUSEO DELLE SCIENZE DI TRENTO),
AND FEM (FONDAZIONE EDMUND MACH)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: MASSIMO BERNARDI, ALESSANDRO MINELLI AND OMAR ROTA-‐STABELLI
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GENERAL INFORMATION
WHAT
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS HISTORY THE WHS ORGANIZES ITS ANNUAL CONGRESS IN ITALY.
MUSE AND THE CITY OF TRENTO ARE PROUD TO HOST THIS IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL EVENT.
THE PROGRAM IS ARTICULATED INTO A SERIES OF SESSIONS AND SYMPOSIA DURING WHICH A DIVERSITY OF ISSUES RELATED TO PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS WILL BE ADDRESSED: FROM
SYSTEMATICS TO BIOGEOGRAPHY TO MACROEVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL CLADES.
THE CONGRESS WILL ALSO GIVE PARTICULAR EMPHASIS TO THE KEY RESEARCH TOPICS IN THIS FIELD IN ITALY.
PARTICIPANTS WILL HAVE THE POSSIBILITY TO VISIT THE EXHIBITION HALLS OF THE NEW MUSEUM AT ANY TIME DURING THE CONGRESS.
WHERE
ALL SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE HALL G. CANESTRINI OF MUSE IN TRENTO, ITALY, CORSO DEL LAVORO E DELLA SCIENZA, 3.
WHEN
THE REGISTRATION DESK WILL OPEN IN THE EVENING OF JULY 6TH, WHEN CONGRESS PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED TO A WELCOME PARTY. THE LAST SESSION WILL BE HELD ON THE 10TH OF JULY.
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THE CONGRESS:
60+ PARTICIPANTS
52 SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTS
ONE OUTREACH EVENT
ALL TALKS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES TO BE HELD AT MUSE – MUSEO DELLE SCIENZE
CONTACTS [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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CONGRESS PROGRAM
SUNDAY 6 JULY 17:00 – 19:00 Registration. Free access to the exhibition halls 19:00 – 20:00 Ice-‐breaking party at MuSe MONDAY 7 JULY 08:00 – 09:00 Registration 09:00 – 09:15 Welcome from WHS presidency, the organizers, and local authorities
Introduction to the topics of the day, schedule update and announcements SYMPOSIUM 1 – SPACE: FROM PHYLOGEOGRAPHY TO VICARIANCE PATTERNS, PART 1 09:15 – 10:45
Yap Jing Wei, Sven Buerki, Laura J. Kelly, Andrew R. Leitch, Ilia J. Leitch, Lee Yung-‐I & Mike Fay – Queen Mary University of London The phylogeography of the Malesian slipper orchids (Paphiopedilum section Barbata)
Andrea Briega, Lisa Pokorny Montero & Isabel Sanmartín Bastida – Real Jardín Botánico-‐CSIC, Madrid Unraveling the origin of the Rand Flora disjunction: a case study in the Afro-‐Macaronesian genus Campylanthus (Plantaginaceae) María Dolores Casagranda, José Manuel Padial & Santiago Castroviejo-‐Fisher – Carnegie Museum of Natural History Using biodiversity databases to assess patterns of endemism at large scales: an example with amphibians of northern South America
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break SYMPOSIUM 1 – SPACE: FROM PHYLOGEOGRAPHY TO VICARIANCE PATTERNS, PART 2 11:15 – 12:45
Giuliana Allegrucci, Valerio Ketmaier & Valerio Sbordoni – University of Rome Tor Vergata First attempts towards a molecular phylogeny of the Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera, Ensifera)
Michele Rossini & Mario Zunino – Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Phylogeny and biogeography of a trans North-‐Atlantic group: the genus Anoplotrupes Jekel, 1865 (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae)
Miguel A. Pérez-‐Gutiérrez, Ana T. Romero-‐García, María J. Salinas, Gabriel Blanca, M. Carmen Fernández & Víctor N. Suárez-‐Santiago – University of Granada Evolutionary history of subfamily Fumarioideae: a round trip to North America from Asia and the posterior Mediterranean dispersion
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12:45 – 14:00 Lunch WORKSHOP 1: PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION AND PATTERNS OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES,
PART 1 14:00 – 14:15 Chairs introduction (Mark Wilkinson & Michele Menegon) 14:15 – 15:00 Sylvain Ursenbacher – University of Basel
Postglacial recolonisation in a cold climate specialist in Western Europe: patterns of genetic diversity in the adder (Vipera berus) support the central-‐marginal hypothesis
15:00 – 15:45 Christoph Liedtke – University of Basel
Diversification of true toads (Family: Bufonidae) in Africa and the disparity of life history traits 15:45 – 16:15 Tea break WORKSHOP 1: PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION AND PATTERNS OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES,
PART 2 16:15 – 17:00 Adriana Bellati – Università degli Studi di Pavia
Multi-‐locus innovative approaches for resolving phylogenies: the case of the Anatololacerta species complex
17:00 – 17:45 Mark Wilkinson – The Natural History Museum (with Karen Siu-‐Ting & Davide Pisani)
Amphibian phylogeny in a hurry
17:45 – 18:30 Michele Menegon – MUSE, Museo delle Scienze (with Simon Loader & Christoph Liedtke) Diversity of the forest bufonids in East Africa and their conservation prioritisation using phylogenetic Indexes
20:30 Public event at MuSe "L’ALBERO DELLA VITA – COME FARE ORDINE NELLA VARIABILITÀ DELLE FORME VIVENTI?”
(CLASSIFICAZIONE, SISTEMATICA ED EVOLUZIONE) (intended for the general public, in Italian, but open to all congress participants): with Gonzalo Giribet, Alessandro Minelli, Omar Rota-‐Stabelli, Michele Menegon & Massimo Bernardi.
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TUESDAY 8 JULY 08:45 – 09:00 Introduction to the topics of the day, schedule update and announcements SYMPOSIUM 2 – CLADES: ZOOMING ON SELECTED BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE, PART 1 09:00 – 10:30
Carly Tribull – American Museum of Natural History Chasing flat wasps across the globe: A molecular phylogeny of the problematic genus Epyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)
Elizabeth Murray & John Heraty – University of California Riverside Molecules versus morphology in a group of New World ant parasitoids (Eucharitidae: Hymenoptera)
Sergei Tarasov – Natural History Museum University of Oslo Morphology, parsimony, and Bayesian analysis with anatomy ontology partitioning provide new insights into the phylogeny of dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae), model organisms in biology
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break SYMPOSIUM 2 – CLADES: ZOOMING ON SELECTED BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE, PART 2 11:00 – 12:30
Ângelo Parise Pinto – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Wing venation, classification and homoplasy: an example of misconceptions from the systematics of dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata)
Varpu Vahtera, Gregory D. Edgecombe & Gonzalo Giribet – University of Turku Species delimitation and phylogeography of Newportia (Scolopendromorpha) in the Mesoamerican region and implications for widespread morphospecies
Maria Grazia Doro, Daniela Piras, Giovanni Giuseppe Leoni, Giuseppina Casu, Simona Vaccargiu, Debora Parracciani, Salvatore Naitana, Mario Pirastu & Andrea Novelletto – University of Rome Tor Vergata Resolution of a major component of goat mitochondrial diversity revealed by resequencing complete mitogenomes
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
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WORKSHOP 2: HETEROCHRONY AND PHYLOGENETICS, PART 1 14:15 – 14:15 Chairs introduction (Ronald Jenner & Alessandro Minelli) 14:15 – 15:00 Christian Mitgutsch – Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Species specific developmental timing: intraspecific variation and the identification of heterochronies
15:00 – 15:45 Diego Fontaneto – Institute of Ecosystem Study (CNR-‐ISE), Verbania Pallanza
Heterochrony in speciation events: asexuals seem to go faster 15:45 – 16:15 Tea break WORKSHOP 2: HETEROCHRONY AND PHYLOGENETICS, PART 2 16:15 – 17:00 John Wiens – University of Arizona
Why morphology-‐based phylogenies (sometimes) lie, and why it still matters 17:00 – 17:45 Ronald Jenner – The Natural History Museum
Testing character loss as a cause of incongruence between morphological and molecular trees 17:45 – 18:30 Alessandro Minelli – University of Padova
Heterochrony and phylogenetic signal in flowering plant morphology
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WEDNESDAY 9 JULY 08:45 – 09:00 Introduction to the topics of the day, schedule updates and announcements SYMPOSIUM 3: TIME: FOSSILS AND PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION 09:00 – 10:30
Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint, Fabien L. Condamine, Oliver Hawlitschek, Chris H. Watts, Nick Porch, Lars Hendrich & Michael Balke – SNSB-‐Zoological State Collection, Munich Unveiling the diversification dynamics of Australasian predaceous diving beetles in the Cenozoic Alberto Boscaini & Joan Madurell-‐Malapeira – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Phylogeny and heterochronic changes of extant and extinct lynxes Khidir W. Hilu, Chelsea M. Black & Dipan Oza – Virginia Tech Fossil calibration, gene informativeness and phylogenetic utility: A case study in angiosperms
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break SYMPOSIUM 4: METHODS, PART 1 11:00 – 12:30
Gonzalo Giribet – Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Is POY really that bad?
Karen Siu-‐Ting, Davide Pisani, Christopher Creevey & Mark Wilkinson – National University of Ireland & University of Bristol Concatabominations: identifying unstable taxa in morphological and phylogenomic supertrees using Safe Taxonomic Reduction Sukanya Ramasamy, Davide Pisani, Gianfranco Anfora & Omar Rota Stabelli – Fondazione Edmund Mach Using phylogeny to study comparative genomics, and using comparative genomics to study phylogeny
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
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WORKSHOP 3: CLOCKS & ROCKS: TESTING PALEONTOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES IN THE GENOMIC ERA, PART 1 14:00 Chair introduction (Davide Pisani) 14:15 – 15:00 Jakob Vinther – University of Bristol
Testing the evolution and fossil record of molluscs using molecular phylogenetics 15:00 – 15:45 Nick Longrich – University of Bath (with Jakob Vinther, Alexander Pyron, Davide Pisani & Jacques
Gauthier) Paleocene worm lizards provide evidence for post-‐Chicxulub radiation and dispersal of Amphisbaenia
15:45 – 16:15 Tea break WORKSHOP 3: CLOCKS & ROCKS: TESTING PALEONTOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES IN THE GENOMIC ERA, PART 2 16:15 – 17:00 Martin D. Brazeau – Imperial College, London
TBA 17:00 – 17.45 Omar Rota-‐Stabelli – Fondazione Edmund Mach (with Allison C. Daley & Davide Pisani)
Do you believe in molecular clocks? A pipeline of sensitive experiments to test robustness of molecular dating studies
17:45 – 18:30 Davide Pisani – University of Bristol (with Roberto Feuda & Omar Rota-‐Stabelli)
Resolving and dating the relationships among non-‐bilaterian animals 18:45 Fellows meeting 20:30 Social dinner at MuSe with “Banquet speech” by James Steve Farris.
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THURSDAY 10 JULY 09:00 – 09:30 Introduction to the topics of the day, schedule update and announcements and presentation of the
next meeting SYMPOSIUM 4: METHODS, PART 2 09:30 – 10:30
Ward Wheeler – American Museum of Natural History Character optimization on networks James S. Farris – Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård Structure, support, and suppositions
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break SYMPOSIUM 4: METHODS, PART 3 11:00 – 12:00
Pablo A. Goloboff & Mark P. Simmons – CONICET, INSUE, Fundación Miguel Lillo Bias in tree searches and its consequences for measuring group supports
Massimo Bernardi, Kenneth D. Angielczyk & Marcello Ruta – MuSe – Museo delle Scienze & University of Bristol Growing trees: shape, stability, and character compatibility over time
12:00 – 12:30 Conclusions 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 WHS General meeting
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POSTER SESSIONS – Poster sessions will take place during all coffee/tea breaks. 1, Rupinder Kaur, Stefanos Siozios, Andrea Campisano, Gianfranco Anfora & Omar Rota-‐Stabelli Using clade-‐tailored genomic events to unveil cryptic bacterial taxa, when other methods fail 2, Angela Roggero, Enrico Barbero, Michael Dierkens & Claudia Palestrini Morphology-‐based phylogenies in Onthophagus species of d’Orbigny‘s 32 group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) 3, Elo Riikka Aleksandra, Penttinen Ritva & Vahtera Varpu Molecular systematics of the family Liacaridae Sellnick 1928 (Acari: Oribatida) 4, Matteo Vecchi, Michele Cesari, K. Ingemar Jönsson, Roberto Bertolani & Roberto Guidetti The integrative approach to the description of tardigrade Antarctic species leads to the identification of a new genus with cosmopolitan distribution 5, Roberto Bertolani, Michele Cesari, Matteo Vecchi & Roberto Guidetti When the integrative approach helps more: the case of the genus Ramajendas (Tardigrada) 6, Víctor N. Suárez-‐Santiago, Miguel A. Pérez-‐Gutiérrez, María J. Salinas, M. Carmen Fernández & Ana T. Romero-‐García Evolutionary trends in the pollen of the subfamily Fumarioideae: evidences from ontogenic characters of the pollen wall and aperture system 7, Samira Ben-‐Menni Schuler, Dolores Garrido Garrido, Ana Teresa Romero García & Víctor N. Suárez Santiago Phylogenetic analysis and expression pattern of the gene GfbZIP1: evolution throughout the angiosperms 8, Samira Ben-‐Menni Schuler, Dolores Garrido Garrido, Ana Teresa Romero García & Víctor N. Suárez Santiago Evolution and expression of GfbZIP2: a putative transcription factor involved in pollen wall patterning 9, Janaína Gomes-‐da-‐Silva, Tatiana T. Souza-‐Chies & Andrea F. Costa What actually is Vriesea? A phylogenetic investigation combining total evidence approach in a polyphyletic and inflated taxonomically genus (Poales: Bromeliaceae: Tillandsioideae) 10, Janaína Gomes-‐da-‐Silva, André Marcio Araujo Amorim & Rafaela Campostrini Forzza Biogeographical patterns of "xeric clade" Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae): a perspective on the space-‐time evolution 11, Anja Palandacic, Jernej Bravnicar & Ales Snoj The chosen trail for travel: underground! (Genetic evidence on underground fish dispersal in karst systems) 12, Jernej Bravnicar, Anja Palandacic, Samo Podgornik, Dusan Jelic & Ales Snoj Phylogeny of Cottus metae 13, Kübra Karaman Arslan, Teoman Kankılıç, Tolga Kankılıç, & Rasit Bilgin A genetic investigation on the evolution and taxonomy of the genus Nannospalax in Turkey 14, Letizia Testa, Federico Iacovelli, Paola Blasi, Luisa Garofalo, Toni Mingozzi, Mattia Falconi & Andrea Novelletto Novel variants in mitochondrial coding genes of Mediterranean sea turtles 15, Ângelo Parise Pinto Generalized Parsimony, 'Sankoff-‐Rousseau optimization', would be a strategy to deal with inapplicable data?
