Hi all -- if you are coming to the social/dinner part of this meeting
please be sure to let me know by tomorrow so I can arrange for
beverages and food (if you are just coming for the program starting at
7:00 no need to RSVP).
Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting: Tuesday, 9 February, 2010
at UC Berkeley, 2063 Valley Life Sciences Bldg.
"Biodiversity Discovery"
Featuring Quentin Wheeler from Arizona State University
Plus short comments from panel discussants:
Dave Carlon
Rosie Gillespie
Dave Kavanaugh
Charles Marshall
Brent Mishler
Kip Will
Followed by general discussion with the audience
Quentin Wheeler is a well-known insect systematist interested in
biodiversity discovery, phylogenetics, and species concepts. He is
University Vice President and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences at Arizona State University. He was also one of the founders
of the International Institute for Species Exploration at ASU (http://species.asu.edu/index
), producers of the great You Tube video "Planet Bob" (http://www.planetbob.asu.edu/index.html
), which uses humor to focus attention on biodiversity and taxonomy
(and won a 2008 Webby Award). Some recent papers:
Wheeler, Q.D., Raven, P.H. & E. O. Wilson. 2004. Taxonomy: impediment
or expedient?
Science 303: 285.
Will, K.W., Mishler, B.D., and Wheeler, Q.D.. 2005. The perils of DNA
barcoding and the
need for integrative taxonomy. Systematic Biology 54: 844-851.
Wheeler, Q.D. 2007. Invertebrate systematics or spineless taxonomy?
Zootaxa 1668: 11-18.
Wheeler, Q.D. (Ed.) 2008. The New Taxonomy. Systematics Association
Species Volume. CRC
Press, Boca Ratan.
Wheeler, Q. D. 2009. Revolutionary thoughts about taxonomy:
declarations of independence
and interdependence. Zoologia 26: 1-4.
Schedule and venue:
5:30 - social gathering with beverages and informal pizza dinner:
cost ca. $10, to be collected at door, 2063 Valley Life
Sciences Bldg.,
UC Berkeley campus. RSVPs needed -- see below!
7:00 - talk followed by discussion, in same room.
Reservations required for beverages and dinner (but not the talk/
discussion). Please email reservations to your host, Brent Mishler,
at [email protected] by Friday, Feb. 5th
For a map of campus and view of VLSB, use the link below.
http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/ABCD123.html
All are welcome, members or not. If you want to join the
Biosystematists, a venerable yet exceptionally lively group that
provides the only inter-institutional seminar/discussion forum
addressing evolutionary topics across the Bay Area, sign up for our
mailing list at: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/[email protected]
See you all there!
Brent
