Friday, 10 March 2006

1:00 – 1:15 Welcome: Jon Shaw

1:15 – 1:25 NSF welcome and introduction

Early afternoon: Synopses of projects

1:30 – 3:20

  • 10 minute presentations from new ATOL and PBI projects
  • Lynn Bohs: Solanum: A Worldwide Treatment (PBI)
  • Mark Sabaj: All Catfish Species (Siluriformes) – Phase 1 of an Inventory of the Otophysi(PBI)
  • Randal (Toby) Schuh: Phytophagous Insects as a Model Group for Documenting Planetary Biodiversity (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae, Phylinae) (PBI)
  • Steve Stephenson: Global Biodiversity of Eumycetozoans (PBI)
  • Bernard Goffinet: Assembling the Liverwort Tree of Life: A Window into the Evolution and Diversification of Early Land Plants (ATOL)
  • Charles Mitter: Phylogeny of Lepidoptera: A Genomics-inspired, Community Collaboration (ATOL)
  • Tim Rowe: 3-D Phylo-informatics (ATOL)
  • Gonzalo Giribet: Assembling the Protostome Tree of Life (ATOL)
  • Brian Farrell / David Maddison: Assembling the Beetle Tree of Life (ATOL)
  • Keith Crandall: Morphological and Molecular Phylogeny of the Decapod Crustaceans (ATOL)
  • Paulyn Cartwright: An Integrative Approach to Investigating Cnidarian Phylogeny (ATOL)

Late afternoon: Integration across projects

3:45 – 4:15 Outreach activities at NESCent (C. Cunningham)

4:15 – 4:45 Update from CIPRES: the informatic connection (B. Moret)

4:45 – 5:15 CIPRES outreach (M. Miller & B. Mishler)

5:15 – 5:45 Integrating across projects: the outlook for linking distributed databases (Z. Ives)

5:45 – 6:15 Name-based services offer a prospect of a unifying infrastructure for ATOL (D. Patterson)

 

Saturday, 11 March 2006

Morning: Break-out sessions – divide into groups of ca. 30

Session 1:
8:30 – 9:45

  • Voucher databasing: integrating collections and phylogenetic information (R. Beaman & B. Piel)
  • PBI: issues of integration and management (L. Bohs, F. Spiegel)
  • Morphological data and databasing I. An overview of MorphoBank, MorphBank, and 3-D phyloinformatics, with discussions (C. Cunningham)
  • How to integrate heterogeneous character information within and between AToL groups -- looking to future genomic perspectives" (D. Swofford)

9:45 – 10:00 Break

Session 2:
10:00 – 11:15

  • Web-based mapping for biogeographic analyses (T. Schuh)
  • Preservation / expansion of NSF supported genomic resources (K. Thomas)
  • Morphological data and databasing II.
  • Hands-on tutorials for MophoBank and MorphBank (M. O'Leary & F. Ronquist, respectively)
  • New analytical methods for huge data sets (P. Lewis & D. Zwickl)

Afternoon: Discussions from breakout sessions

1:00 – 1:40 Ten minute summaries of session 1 meetings

1:50 – 2:50 General discussion of session 1 issues

2:50 – 3:10 Break

3:10 – 4:00 Ten minute summaries of session 2 meetings

4:10 – 5:10 General discussion of session 2 meetings

Sunday, 12 March 2006

Morning: Break-out sessions

Session 3:
8:30 – 9:45

  • Coordination of organellar informatics (R. Jansen & J. Boore)
  • Coordinating collecting activities (J. Lundberg)
    High-throughput technologies for systematics (J. Kim)
  • Biotic inventories: units of biodiversity (B. Mishler)

9:45 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 10:40 Ten minute summaries of session 3 meetings

10:40 – 12:00 General discussion of session meetings

 

Afternoon: Break-out sessions

Session 4:
1:00 – 2:15

  • Biodiversity networks & databases (e.g. LINNE, GBIF) (L. Page)
  • Dating phylogenies and diversification rates (P. Thorne)
  • Detecting reticulate phylogenies (R. Linder)
  • Training: integrating computational biology and phylogenetics; (D. Hillis)

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:10 Ten minute summaries of session 4 meetings

3:10 – 3:40 NSF outlook

3:40 – 6:00 General wrap-up discussion