Young Taxonomist Symposium programme

Time Name Institution Title
9:00 Welcome

9:10 Erzsébet Szurdoki HNHM Genetic and morphological diversity of closely related Sphagnum angustifolium, S. fallax and S. flexuosum
9:30 Nicolas Puillandre MNHN Integrative taxonomy reveals a high number of species hidden within Bathytoma attractoides (Gastropoda, Conoidea).
9:50 Charlotte Havermans RBINS Incongruence between molecular phylogeny and morphological classification in amphipod crustaceans: a case study of Antarctic lysianassoids
10:10 Bastian T. Reijnen NNM Keeping up appearances: evolution of camouflage by flamboyance in Ovulidae snails in relation to coral host preferences
10:30 Break

10:50 József Geml NHN Discovering and naming the Unknown: Coupling soil metagenomics and specimen-based systematics for fungal biodiversity studies
11:10 Vanya Prévot RBINS Reflections on the taxonomic interpretation of the polymorphic, predominantly selfing terrestrial snail genus Rumina (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Stylommatophora)
11:30 Jana Hoffmann MfN An integrated approach towards the sound taxonomy of Recent thecideide brachiopods
11:50 Robin van Velzen NHN A combined distance- and character-based approach to DNA barcoding
12:10 Lunch

13:10 Nikolai Nosov BINRAS Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Russian Poa species: on the origin of polyploid genomes
13:30 Patricia Cabezas CSIC Systematics and biogeography of the genus Paramunida (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae)
13:50 Marcus Lehnert SMNS Retracing the evolution of neotropical scaly tree ferns
14:10 Joaquin Hortal CSIC Maps of ignorance: uncertainty in the data on species distributions
14:30 Break

14:50 Sancia E.T. van der Meij NNM The host-specificity approach: what symbionts can teach us about taxonomy
15:10 Arnaud Henrard RMCA A taxonomic review of the Afrotropical canopy living species of Orchestina (Araneae, Oonopidae)
15:30 Maria Vorontsova NHML The African spiny solanums: a thorny taxonomic tangle
15:50 Discussion