Friday, March 7, 2008
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Friday, 7 March 2008
1:00 – 1:15: Welcome and Overview: (Hank Bart)
1:15 – 1:25: NSF welcome and AToL information (Pat Herendeen)
Early afternoon: Synopses of projects
1:30 – 3:30
15-minute presentations on new AToL Projects:
Joseph Spatafora - AFTOL: Resolving the Evolutionary History of the Fungi [ppt]
Richard Broughton - Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life - Addressing a Major Unresolved Problem in Vertebrate Phylogeny [ppt]
Tandy Warnow - Large-scale Simultaneous Multiple Alignment and Phylogeny Estimation [pdf]
Rudiger Bieler - Phylogeny on the Half-shell -- Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life [ppt]
Michael Novacek - Resolving Mammalian Phylogeny with Genomic and Morphological Approaches [ppt]
Charles Delwiche - An Integrated Approach to the Phylogeny of Dinoflagellates [ppt]
Edward Theriot - A Phylogenetic and Genomic Investigation of the Algal Heterokont Tree [ppt]
Val Tannen - Core Database Technologies to Enable the Integration of AToL Information [ppt]
Sarah Matthews - Gymnosperms on the Tree of Life: Resolving the Phylogeny of Seed Plants [ppt]
Break
Late afternoon: Major Themes of the 2008 Meeting
3:45 – 4:05: Project Management Best Practices (Pat Herendeen)
4:05 – 4:25: Distance Collaboration Methods Overview (Reed Beaman) [ppt]
4:25 – 4:45: Role of Morphological Data in Phylogenetic Reconstruction
4:45 – 5:05: Advances in Phylogenetic Analysis (Tandy Warnow)
5:05 – 5:25: Tools and Services Available to AToL Projects
5:25 – 5:45: Linkages to Biodiversity Mega projects (Wiegmann) [ppt]
5:45 – 6:05: Broader Impacts of AToL Research (Bart)
6:05 – 8:00: Poster Session and Social: Find Posters Here
Saturday, March 8, 2008
8:30 – 9:30: Morning Breakout Session I – participants divide into groups of ~ 30
Social Networking and Collaborative tools - Bill Barnett LeMoyne, 5th floor [ppt] [report, .doc]
Morphological Characters and Ontologies Part I - Katja Seltmann [ppt]; John Heraty [ppt]; Fleur de Lis
9:30 – 9:45: Break
9:45 – 10:45: Morning Breakout Session II
Advances in Supertree Approaches LeMoyne, 5th floor
Morphological Characters and Ontologies Part II - Todd Vision [ppt]; David McLaughlin [ppt]; Cynthia Parr [ppt]; Fleur de Lis
11:00 – 11:45: Invited Speaker: Distance Collaboration Methods - Phillip Dibner, [ppt] Fleur de Lis
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 Afternoon Breakout Session I
Extracting Data from Digital Libraries - J. Martin; Garnett [ppt]; N. Dean Pentcheff [pdf]; Fleur de Lis
Advances in Phylogenetic Analysis of Molecular Data - David Hillis; Jerome Regier [ppt]; Casey Dunn [pdf]; LeMoyne
2:30 – 2:45: Break
2:45 – 3:45 Afternoon Breakout Session II
Morphological Image Databases and Phyloinformatics Tools - Maureen O' Leary, Fleur de Lis
Whole-Genome Phylogenetic Analyses - Bernard Moret [pdf] LeMoyne
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 4:45: Invited Speaker: Encyclopedia of Life - D. Patterson, Fleur de Lis
4:45 - 5:00: Overview of Sunday Schedule
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Morning Breakout Session – participants divide into groups of ~30
7:30 - 8:30: Continental Breakfast (Coffee and Pastries)
8:30 – 9:30: Morning Breakout Session I
Phylogenetic Analysis Toolkits - Mark Holder [pdf]; Jerome Regier [ppt]; Mark Miller [ppt] Le Moyne
Using the Tree of Life to Navigate the Tree of Life, Part I - Mark Westneat [ppt] ; David Schindel [ppt]; Martin Blackwell [ppt] Fleur de Lis
9:30 - 9:45: Break
9:45 – 10:45: Morning Breakout Session II
Data Managemant Tools - Val Tannen, Bertram Ludaescher [pdf]Le Moyne
Using the Tree of Life to Navigate the Tree of Life, Part II - David Patterson; David Schendel [ppt]; Fleur de Lis
10:45 – 11:00: Break
11:00 – 11:45: Invited Speaker: Travels in the Great Tree of Life - Michael Donahue, [ppt] Fleur de Lis
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 Afternoon Breakout Session I
Internationalizing AToL Research - Michael Donoghue; Hank Bart [ppt]; Le Moyne
AToL in Education - Nikki Hanegan [ppt] Fleur de Lis
2:30 – 2:45: Break
2:45 – 3:45 Afternoon Breakout Session II
Building graduate student and postdoc careers through published AToL research - Fleur de Lis
Broader Impacts of AToL Research - Hank Bart [ppt]; LeMoyne
3:45 – 5:00
General wrap-up discussion
