Systematic Association Biennial Meeting Bristol

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Bristol 17-19 June 2019

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Monday the 17th – Priory Road Complex 08:00 Registration opens

09:00-10:00 Tress Theatre Fredrik Ronquist - Systematists: the integrators

Symposia

10:00-11:00 Tress Theatre Incorporating fossils into phylogenies of extant taxa (Chairs: Jesus Lozano-Fernandez, Luke Parry) 10:00-10:15 Sam Giles - Assembling 400 million years of the fish tree of life

10:15-10:30 Jakob Vinther - Fossil evidence suggest comb jellies (Ctenophora) are coelenterate diploblasts

10:30-10:45 Holly Betts - Estimating the divergence date of eukaryotes via the fossilised birth-death process

10:45-11:00 Panel discussion

10:00-11:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Jordi Paps) 10:00-10:15 Stephen Mahoney - Taxonomic confusion and cryptic diversity in Northeast Indian Horned frogs (Megophrys)

10:15-10:30 Elin Thomas - A Red List of hydrothermal vent fauna – current insights into taxon-based conservation tools in the deep sea

10:30-10:45 Matt Buys - The phylogenomics of diversification on an island: applying Anchored Hybrid Enrichment to New Zealand Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae)

10:45-11:00 Panel Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Tress Theatre Incorporating fossils into phylogenies of extant taxa (Chairs: Jesus Lozano-Fernandez, Luke Parry) 11:30-11:45 Catherine Klein - Timing the diversification of snakes

11:45-12:00 Chenyang Cai - Insect evolution: Integrating molecules and fossils

12:00-12:15 Richard Howard - A sessile Early Cambrian Lobopodian and the phylogeny of Cambrian Ecdysozoa

12-15-12:30 Robert Sansom - Stratigraphic congruence of Bayesian posterior distribution tree samples

12:30-12:45 Philip Donoghue - The topology, divergence times, and evolution of land plants 12:45-13:00 Panel Discussion

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11:30-13:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Jordi Paps) 11:30-11:45 Julia Day - Island versus mainland evolution of a ‘great speciator’: contrasting patterns of morphological diversification in the white-eye (Aves: Zosterops)

11:45-12:00 Felicitas Gunter - The sand termite Psammotermes allocerus – one species or rather a number of cryptic species?

12:00-12:15 Pakkapol Thaowetsuwan - Same, but different: complexity of androecial diversity in Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae)

12:15-12:30 Alex Monro - Combination of Hyb-Seq, Sanger sequence and morphological data resolves phylogenetic relationships and supports delimitation of cryptic genera in the Urticaceae. 12:30-12:45 Warren Johnson - Phylogeographic and Bionomic Insights from Whole Genome Sequence Analyses of the Species-rich Australasian Anopheles annulipes Mosquito Complex 12:45-13:00 Panel Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00–15:30 Tress Theatre Cryptic taxa - artefact of classification or evolutionary phenomena (Chair: Alex Monro) 14:00-14:15 Torsten Struck - What are cryptic species? – A process-driven perspective

14:15-14:30 Cene Fišer - Can co-occurring cryptic species steer integrative taxonomy? 14:30-14:45 Matt Lavin & Toby Pennington (Joint Presentation) - The nature of woody plant species – cryptic and not-so cryptic - in neotropical dry and rain forests 14:45-15:00 Gabriela Bittencourt - Cryptic diversity in theory and in herpetology

15:00-15:15 Jim Labisko - Cryptic diversity and evidence of a dramatic thermal niche shift in tropical frogs

15:15-15:30 Panel Discussion

14:00–15:30 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Julia Day) 14:00-14:15 Marit van Santen - Cape flora radiation driven by oligotrophic soils rather than Mediterranean climate – evidence from Phylica and a meta-analysis of 22 Cape clades 14:15-14:30 Benjamin Moon - Early high disparity and rates in the evolution of ichthyosaurs 14:30-14:45 Luke Parry - Does incorporating fossils influence phylogenetic hypotheses?

14:45-15:00 Bruno Simões - Hidden in plain sight: reassessment of the extinct pig-footed bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus (Peramelemorphia, Chaeropodidae) and use of the fossil record to trace its past distribution 15:00-15:15 Gareth Coleman - Phylogenomics resolves early events in bacterial evolution 15:15-15:30 Panel Discussion

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15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:00 Tress Theatre Cryptic taxa - artefact of classification or evolutionary phenomena (Chair: Alex Monro) 16:00-16:15 Marta Álvarez-Presas - An integrative approach to describe the cryptic diversity of native land planarians in Europe

16:15-16:30 Jane Younger - Cryptic diversification in a cryptic radiation: a closer look at Madagascar's newly recognised Bernieridae 16:30-16:45 Paul Williams - Guerrilla taxonomy ‒ is quick also dirty? Under-sampling, over- sampling, and cryptic species 16:45-17:00 Panel Discussion

16:00-17:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Julia Day) 16:00-16:15 Mattia Giacomelli - Molecular palaeobiology of Ecdysozoa 16:15-16:30 Valeria Russini - Whelks, rock-snails and allied: a new phylogenetic framework for the family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) 16:30-16:45 Tom Carruthers - Estimating divergence times with multiple fossil calibrations and a relaxed clock

16:45-17:00 Panel Discussion

17:30-19:30 Drinks reception and Posters – Atrium; Life Sciences Building

Poster presentation stands

1. A. Serra Da Silva2. M.E. Rossi3. F. Keeley4. N. Wei (TBC)5. K. Könyves6. J. Labisko7. D. Veerappan

8. F. Torres9. F. Sampio10. R. Prakash

11. R. Clegg12. S. Sheikh 13. T. Llewellyn14. Watchara

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Tuesday the 18th – Priory Road Complex09:00-10:00 Tress Theatre: Tom Brooks - Systematics and conservation: strengthening the science-policy-practice interface

Symposia

10:00-11:00 Tress Theatre The contribution of systematics to conservation (Chair: Eve Lucas) 10:00-10:15 Barnaby Walker - Can specimen-based models provide a shortcut to conservation assessments?

10:15-10:30 Blanca Huertas - The beauty of the dead: behind the seen opportunities for the conservation of butterflies 10:30-10:45 Phillip Thomas - What's in a name? Taxonomy and its impacts on conservation 10:45-11:00 Panel Discussion

10:00-11:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Celine Petitjean). 10:00-10:15 Antonia Ford - The phylogeny of Oreochromis cichlid fishes and their adaptation to extreme environmental conditions

10:15-10:30 Edmund Moody - Bayesian phylogenomic feature selection for predicting prokaryotic optimal growth temperature 10:30-10:45 Katherine Short - Life in the extreme; when did tardigrades colonise Antarctica? 10:45-11:00 Panel Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Tress Theatre The contribution of systematics to conservation (Chairs: Eve Lucas & Eimear Nic Lughadha) 11:30-11:45 Sana Olander - Georeferenced herbarium material for IUCN Red List Assessments

11:45-12:00 Iain Darbyshire - Are taxonomists qualified to talk about conservation? Identifying and conserving critical sites for plant diversity through the Tropical Important Plant Areas programme

12:00-12:15 Peter Moonlight - Using species distribution modelling to define conservation units: predicting the fate of northeast Brazilian biomes under global change 12:15-12:30 Niels Raes - New horizons for natural history collections with DiSSCo

12:30-13:00 Panel Discussion

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11:30-13:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Celine Petitjean) 11:30-11:45 Jesus Lozano Fernandez - Taxon-rich chelicerate genomic datasets provide support for the monophyly of Acari and Arachnida

11:45-12:00 Rowan Schley - Drivers of phylogenetic incongruence in rainforest trees

12:00-12:15 Ji-Hun Song - First complete mitochondrial genomes of three bathynellaceans (Crustacea, Malacostraca, Syncarida), and their phylogenetic position within the Eumalacostraca 12:15-12:30 Benedikt Kuhnhäuser - Phylogenomics of calamoid palms 12:30-12:45 Meng Lu - Phylogenetic Relationships of The Tribe Neospartoneae (Verbenaceae) Based on Molecular Data

12:45-13:00 Panel Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Tress Theatre The contribution of systematics to conservation (Chairs: Eve Lucas, Iain Darbyshire) 14:00-14:15 Richard Grenyer - Who cares about phylogenetic diversity?

14:15-14:30 Joseph Tobias - The use and misuse of phylogenetic data in biodiversity conservation 14:30-14:45 Steven Dodsworth & Mark Chase - Phylogenetic approaches to understanding species boundaries for conservation

14:45-15:00 Roseli Pellens - Phylogenetic diversity in the quest for new concepts for biodiversity conservation 15:00-15:30 Panel Discussion

14:00-15:30 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Bruno Simões) 14:00-14:15 David Gower - External morphological diversity and systematics of uropeltid snakes

14:15-14:30 Jeffrey Streicher - Ultraconserved elements as phylogenetic markers: sampling strategies and signals in vertebrate systems 14:30-14:45 Simon Maddock - When old meets new: molecular systematics of New Guinean snakes from formalin-fixed museum specimens

14:45-15:00 Ramachandran Kotharambath - Species delimitation challenges in Gegeneophis, the elusive wormy caecilians of India’s Western and Eastern Ghats 15:00-15:15 Karen Siu-Ting - Inadvertent paralog inclusion drives artefactual topologies and timetree estimates in Lissamphibia

15:15-15:30 Panel Discussion

15:30-16:00 Tea break

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16:00-17:00 Tress Theatre The contribution of systematics to conservation (Chairs: Eve Lucas, Peter Moonlight) 16:00-16:15 Eve Lucas - Stable taxonomy and up to date curation amplify the conservation potential of Systematics

16:15-16:30 Linda Neaves - What to conserve? The role of systematics in conservation

16:30-16:45 Steven Bachman - Growing the global Red List – a vital role for systematists

16:45-17:00 Panel Discussion

16:00-17:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Bruno Simões)

16:00-16:15 Leah Cellander-Crowe - The prevalence of correlated morphological characters using avian and squamate datasets

16:15-16:30 Chris Creevy - The Likelihood Decay Index: Branch support for the phylogenomics era

16:30-16:45 Mark Wilkinson - On support 16:45-17:00 Discussion

19:00 Drink & Conference banquet – Bristol City Museum

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Wednesday the 19th – Priory Road Complex09:00-10:00 Tress Theatre: Tandy Warnow - Theoretical and Empirical Advances in Species Tree Estimation

Symposia

10:00-11:00 Tress Theatre Challenges in modern phylogenetic: molecules, morphology and methods (Chair: Mark Wilkinson) 10:00-10:15 Tom Williams - Phylogenomics and the origin of eukaryotes

10:15-10:30 Peter Foster - Compositional heterogeneity over the tree

10:30-10:45 Patrick Kuck - PhyQuart Mapping

10:45-11:00 Panel Discussion

10:00-11:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Davide Pisani) 10:00-10:15 Jordi Paps - Phylogenies and the reconstruction of ancestral genomes

10:15-10:30 Alan Beavan - What can relationships between genes tell us about events in genome evolution? 10:30-10:45 Rowena Hill - Exploring the evolution of the lichenicolous lifestyle within the Ascomycota 10:45-11:00 Panel Discussion

11:00 -11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Tress Theatre Challenges in modern phylogenetic: molecules, morphology and methods (Chair: Mark Wilkinson) 11:30-11:45 Russel Garwood - Testing phylogenetic inference of morphology using evolutionary simulations

11:45-12:00 Joseph Keating - An MCMC-like sampling algorithm for parsimony tree estimation using discrete morphological data

12:00-12:15 Mark Puttick - Using evolutionary models to assess the accuracy of phylogenies estimated with Bayesian, Maximum-Likelihood, and Parsimony methods

12:15-12:30 Claudia Paetzoid - Assembly Parameter Optimization drastically improves phylogenetic inference in Hawaiian Melicope (Rutaceae)

12:30-12:45 Celine Petitjean - Rooting the eukaryotic radiation with new models of genome evolution

12:45-13:00 Panel Discussion

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11:30-13:00 Banton Theatre Open symposium (Chair: Davide Pisani) 11:30-11:45 Davide Pisani - Are molecular and morphological phylogenies incongruent?

11:45-12:00 Paul Zaharias - Data, time and money: evaluating the best compromise for inferring molecular phylogenies of non-model taxa 12:00-12:15 Paschalis Natsidis - A new computational method to detect the phenomenon of the hidden break in 28S rRNA reveals its evolutionary distribution

12:15-12:30 Beulah Garner - From tree to soup to tree: the application of metagenetics in rapid biodiversity discovery of the Coleoptera 12:30-12:45 Mohammed Bassyouni - Sequence variations and molecular phylogeny of some Red sea parrotfishes (Scaridae) using mitochondrial gene sequences 12:45-12:30 Panel Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-17:00 Tress Theatre Challenges in modern phylogenetic: molecules, morphology and methods (Chair: Mark Wilkinson)14:00-14:15 Thomas Flouris - A Bayesian multispecies coalescent model with introgression for comparative genomic analysis

14:15-14:30 Louis du Plessis - An integrated framework for the joint inference of population history and sampling intensity from reconstructed genealogies

14:30-14:45 Anthony Redmond - Empirical mixture models improve model-fit and mitigate branching errors in partitioned phylogenomics

14:45-15:15 Robert Scotland - Unleashing the power of global natural history collections

15:15-15:30 Panel Discussion

15:30-16:00 Tea break

16:00-16:15 Roberto Feuda - Improved modeling of compositional heterogeneity supports sponges as sister to all other animals

16:15-16:30 William Baker - Completing the plant tree of life

16:30-16:45 David Williams - Whatever Happened to Cladistics?

16:45-17:00 Panel Discussion

17:00-17:30 Tress Theatre Conference closure & final Remarks

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