LAB NEWS:
- BioSynC Meeting on True Flies
The EOL Biodiversity Synthesis Center in Chicago hosted the first Synthesis Meeting on Diptera. Three members of the Wiegmann lab participated in this event: Brian Wiegmann, Michelle Trautwein and Keith Bayless. The meeting was organized and hosted by EOL postdoc and dipterist, Torsten Dikow. For more details:
http://blog.eol.org/2008/10/23/biosync-synthesis-meeting-on-true-flies/
- We Welcome New Lab Members!
Post-doc Isaac Winkler joined the lab in January 2008 to work on the FLYTREE Tier 2 phylogeny project. Winkler studies phylogenetics of species diversification and ecological specialization in various dipteran groups. He is a contributor to our new NSF-funded project on phylogenetics of sexual selected morphologies and behaviour in empidine Empididae (dance flies). The dance fly project website.
Masters student Daniela Ramírez comes from Baja California, México where she did her B.S. in Biology. She has been involved with the Museo de Artrópodos de Baja California in CICESE for many years as a volunteer curator. Daniela is a grad student in our NSF PEET project on Tabanidae (horse flies). Daniela's thesis project focuses on systematics of New World pangoniine Tabanidae, particularly within the genus Esenbeckia. Her interests are systematics, museum curation, public outreach and insect biodiversity of Mexico and the Southwestern US.
- ESA Annual Meeting in Reno, NV (December '08)
A success! Lab members presented various topics of research. If you attended the meeting but missed the talks you can access the recorded presentations:
Keith Bayless. A revisionary study of the genus Dasychela (Diptera: Tabanidae) with reference to the evolution of extreme morphologies [Recorded]
Whitney Swink. The dance flies of Madagascar: Revealing an unknown diversity.
Michelle Trautwein. Comparative genomics of Diptera: Data-mining for phylogenetic resolution of the true flies, in the Phylogenomics: Trends and Innovative Techniques Symposium.
Matthew Bertone. Understanding the evolution of larval Diptera: New insights on fly morphology and biology from FLYTREE, in the Immature Stages of Insect Systematics Symposium. [Recorded]
Shelah Morita. Molecular phylogeny of the horse flies: A framework for renewing tabanid taxonomy. [Recorded]
Brian Wiegmann. Trees of life: Phylogenetics in contemporary entomology, in The Darwinian Metamorphosis of Entomology Symposium. [Recorded]
- Other news!
The Evolutionary Biology of Flies (eds. D. Yeates & B. Wiegmann) now available through Columbia University Press [see publications for details]
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