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Workshop 5: Coevolution and the Ecological Structure of Plant-insect Communities

Schedule

Monday, April 4
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:30am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:30-10:30am Sharon Strauss: Coevolution and community complexity
10:30-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Claire de Mazancourt: Red King predators, evolution of mutualistic antagonists and coevolution patterns between mutualists and antagonists
12:15-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm Marc Johnson: Interplay between ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions
2:30-3:30pm Ben Ridenhour: Measuring coevolutionary selection in plant-insect interactions
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Mike Wade: The Plasticity Load: the cost of flexibility of defense in a variable environment
5:00-7:00pm Reception and Poster Session in MBI Lounge
Poster Presenters
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, April 5
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Bruce Anderson: Trait Matching: What does it tell us?
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Scott Nuismer: What do studies of local adaptation and trait matching reveal about the coevolutionary process?
11:30-12:30pm Ulrich Mueller: Frontier Mutualism and Community Genetics in Attine Ants and their Cultivated Fungi
12:30-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:45pm Jose Maria Gomez: Exploring selection mosaics and coevolution in multiespesific generalized systems
2:45-3:45pm Paul Hohenlohe: A coevolutionary resolution to the paradox of concave selection?
3:45-4:15pm Break
4:15-5:15pm Judith Becerra: Bursera and Blepharida: The ecological play and the coevolutionary theatre
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, April 6
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Franck Jabot: Coevolution in plant-pollinator networks: the impact of network properties
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Pedro Jordano: Complex networks of interactions and coevolution in multispecific assemblages of free-living species
11:30-12:30pm Akira Sasaki: Applying theories of arms races of plants and their parasites: Camellia-weevil system and rice blast disease
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Thomas Whitham: Community genetics of foundation forest trees as drivers of community diversity, structure, stability, and evolution
3:00-4:00pm Jacqui Shykoff: Evolution of virulence and mixed infections
4:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Thursday, April 7
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Emily Jones: The consequences of exploitation for plant-pollinator mutualisms
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Martin Heil: Reciprocal adapations as a key factor in the stabilization of a defensive ant-plant mutualism
11:30-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Peter Abrams: The Coevolution of Competitors in a Community Context
2:00-2:30pm Break
2:30-4:00pm Panel discussion
4:15pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)