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New Directions in Systematics

Wednesday 15th October

15.00h-19.00h: Registration
Registration will take place at the Cretan Village Hotel, Hersonisos.

18.00h-19.00h: Welcome Reception

Drinks will be served in the Cocktail Reception No. 2, Cretan Village Hotel

Thursday 16th October

08.00h - 09.00h: Registration (at the Cretan Village Hotel)

Morning Session:
Plenary: Main Conference Room, Cretan Village Hotel

09:30h: Welcome
Introduction to the aims and objectives of the workshop

Stephen Blackmore, Chairman of the ESF Network
The Network: working towards an ESF Programme

Personal Perspectives

10:00h:

KÂre Bremer, Department of Systematic Botany, Uppsala University
Recent advances in flowering plant phylogeny and classification

10:45h: Coffee

11:15h:

Erko Stackebrandt, Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH
Recent advances in microbial systematics and the challenges/prospects for the future

12:00h:

Alessandro Minelli, Department of Biology, University of Padova and President of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Zoological Nomenclature Between Dream And Drama - Names For Concepts Or Concepts Despite Names?

12:45h: Lunch

Afternoon Session:
Plenary: Main conference room, Cretan Village Hotel

Introduction to the three Themes

Taxonomic Challenges of Species-Rich Groups
Organiser: John Lambshead, The Natural History Museum, London

14:30h:

John Lambshead,The Natural History Museum, London
Title to be confirmed

15:00h:

Ronald Sluys, Universiteit van Amsterdam
How many species?: it's all in the mind of the beholder

Links Between Developmental Biology and Systematics
Organiser: Diethard Tautz, Zoologisches Institut der Universitt Munchen

15:30h:

Diethard Tautz, Zoologisches Institut der Universitt Munchen
Developmental genes and the generation of the phenotype

16:00h: Coffee

16:30h:

Pere Alberch, Museo Nacional Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
The systematics of development: classification of systems of organisation versus reconstruction of history

Bioinformatics: Communicating and Using Taxonomic Knowledge
Organiser: John Parnell, School of Botany, Trinity College, Dublin

17:00h:

Bernard Picton, Ulster Museum
Title to be confirmed

17:30 h:

Antony Cox, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Title to be confirmed

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Friday 17th October

Morning Session:
Working groups

Formulating the Content of an ESF Programme in Systematic Biology

The participants will divide into three working groups for a mix of short presentations and discussions on how the three Themes could be developed most effectively in an ESF Programme.

Working Group 1:
Taxonomic Challenges of Species-Rich Groups

Organiser: John Lambshead
Rapporteur: Magda Vincx (Network Committee)
Venue: Royal Mare Village Hotel

9.00h: Introduction

9.10h:

Laure Civeyrel & Mark Chase
Paleoenvironnements et Palynologie, ISEM
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Utility of the plastid gene matK in reconstruction of the phylogeny of the pair families Apocynaceae - Asclepiadaceae (Dicotyledones, Gentianales) and critical re-examination of palynological characters used to delimit infra-familial sub-units

9.30h:

Rienk de Jong, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology
Species Richness In Lepidoptera: What Is The Problem?

9.50h:

Elvira De Matthaeis, Valerio Ketmaier & Marina Cobolli
Department of Animal and Human Biology, University of Rome
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila
Genetic Variation Distribution within Specialised Crustacean Taxa

10.10h:

Wilhelm Foissner, Universitt Salzburg, Institut for Zoologie
The World Soil Ciliate (Protozoa, Ciliophora) Fauna: Proposed Number of Species and their Geographic Distribution

10.30h:

Sigrid Liede, Lehrstuhl F. Pflanzensystematik, University of Bayreuth
Study in the African Members of Cynanchum (Apocynaceae - Asclepiadoideae)

11.00h: Coffee

11.30h:

Ellinor Michel, Institute for Systematics and Population Biology/Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam
Species Flocks, Systematics and Taxonomic Tribulations: Challenges in an African Rift Lake Gastropod Radiation

11.50h:

Alec M Pridgeon1, Richard M Bateman1, Antony V Cox2 and Mark W Chase2, 1 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
The Molecular Revolution in Orchid Systematics

12.10h:

Dr W F Prud'homme van Reine, Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus, Leiden University
Marine Algae Have Their Taxonomic Challenges Too

12.30h:

A T SzabÛ, Berzsenyi College, Hungary
Genetic Information in the Taxonomy of Hulled Wheats (fam. Poaceae, tribe Triticeae), with special reference to Triticum sect. Monococcum

Working Group 2:
The Links Between Developmental Biology and Systematics

Organiser: Diethard Tautz
Rapporteur: Stephen Blackmore (Network Committee)
Venue: Royal Mare Village Hotel

09.00h: Introduction

09.10h:

Per Erik Ahlberg, Brian D. Metscher, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London
Origin of the Teleost Tail: Phylogenetic Frameworks for Developmental Studies

09.30h:

Ulrich Zeller, Museum fur Naturkunde, Institut fur Systematische Zoologie, Berlin
The Systematic Relationships of the Monotremata: The Ontogenetic Evidence

09.50h:

Stephen Blackmore, Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London
A second molecular revolution in systematics?

Working Group 3:
Bioinformatics: Communicating and Using Taxonomic Knowledge

Organiser: John Parnell
Rapporteur: Wouter Los (Network Committee)
Venue: Main Conference Room, Cretan Village Hotel

09.00h: Introduction

09.10h:

Walter G. Berendsohn, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Koenigin-Luise-Strasse 6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
The BioCISE project - Resource Development for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe

09.25h:

M C Boulter, D.Gee & H C Fisher, Palaeobiology Unit, University of East London, Romford Road, London E15, UK
The Internet Biodiversity Service

09.40h:

Dr David Chesmore, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Hull HU6 7RX, UK
Future Directions in Computer-Assisted Taxonomy

09.55h:

Jo Dicks, Matthew Couchman, Mazda Hewitt, Andrew O'Malia and Jeremy Dickson., John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
Bioinformatics at the John Innes Centre

10.10h:

Eckhard K Groll, & Andreas Taeger, Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Schicklerstasse 5, D-16225 Eberswalde, Germany
Problems Of Data Retrieval From Entomological Databases

10.25h:

Ruth Kiew, Department of Biology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Conflict between traditional European plant taxonomy and conservation in the tropics - an urgent need for change

10.40h:

Wouter Los, Zoological Museum Amsterdam, PO Box 94766, NL-1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Biodiversity Informatics is Megascience

11.00h: Coffee

11.30h:

Michel Louette, Danny Meirte, Ron Demy and Paul Herroelen Royal Museum for Central Africa, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Database Of Historical Zoological Specimens Taken In Africa For Systematic Study: New Importance For Conservation

11.45h:

P.F. Burgess, M.F. Newman & T.C. Whitmore, Dr M F Newman, ABW Associates Ltd., c/o Royal Botanic Garden, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR
On-line Identification of Tropical Timber Trees

12.00h:

Peter Schalk, Eti, Mauritskade 61, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Linnaues II. A Powerful Tool to Communicate Taxonomy

12.15h:

Michael Schmitt, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
Phylogenetics, Zoological Nomenclature And Electronic Databases

12.30h:

Malcolm J Scoble, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
Collaboration: The Key To Producing A Global Taxonomic Facility Of A Species Rich Group

12.45h:

Vassily A Spiridonov, Zoological Museum of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str. 6, Moscow 103009, Russia
Towards the Development of European Zoological Collection Network: Combining Systematic Studies and Biodiversity Monitoring

13.00h: Lunch

Afternoon Session:
Plenary: Main conference room, Cretan Village Hotel

15:00h:

ESF speaker
Creating a Good ESF Programme

Working Groups

15:30h:

Identifying Priority Topics and Developing Recommendations for Programme Activities

16:30h: Coffee

17:00h:

Identifying Priority Topics and Developing Recommendations for Programme Activities (in working groups, continued)

18:00h: Close

 

Saturday 18th October

Morning Session:
Plenary: Main Conference Room, Cretan Village Hotel

09:30h:

Reports from the three Working Groups

The rapporteur of each Working Group will present a summary of their discussions and key conclusions. The workshop will then discuss and refine the proposals.

• Taxonomic Challenges of Species-Rich Groups
  Rapporteur: Magda Vincx
• Links Between Developmental Biology and Systematics
  Rapporteur: Stephen Blackmore
• Bioinformatics: Communicating and Using Taxonomic Knowledge
  Rapporteur: Wouter Los

10.15h:

Discussion of Working Group proposals

10.45h: Coffee

11.15h:

Proposals for a future ESF Programme in Systematic Biology

12:15h:

Conclusions and recommendations
Stephen Blackmore, Network Committee Chairman

12:30h: Lunch

Afternoon

14.00h:

Visit to Knossos Royal Palace and Archaeological Museum
Tickets can be booked at the registration desk on arrival in Crete
Places are limited

Evening

20.30h for 21.00h:

Conference Dinner
Royal Mare Village

 

 

Sunday 19th October

Committee Meeting Room, Royal Mare Village

Departure of Non-Committee Delegates

10:00h:

ESF Network Coordination Committee: final meeting to agree Network report

15.00h:

Drafting Committee meets to prepare report from the workshop

 

 

Monday 20th October

Committee Meeting Room, Royal Mare Village

Drafting Committee completes workshop report and outline Programme proposal