FRIDAY JULY 12, 2002

I = invited talk, C = contributed talk
speakers underlined
 
Symposium VI. Lice and Bacteria
Chair: Gregory Dasch (USA)
     
08:30 - 09:00 Dasch, Gregory (USA). Louse bourne bacterial diseases: problem, questions and new approaches. I
09:00 - 09:15 Reed, David L., D.H. Clayton, & M.S. Hafner (USA). Bacteria associated with chewing lice: endosymbionts and studies of coevolution. C
09:15 - 09:30 Murrell, Anna, S. Dobson, X. Yang, E. Lacey, & S. Barker (Australia). A survey of bacterial diversity in lice and other ectoparasites from Australia. C
09:30 - 09:45 Dasch, Gregory, J.R. Samms, & W.G. Sewell (USA). Biochemical characteristics of typhus group rickettsiae with special attention to the ZRS and human strains of Rickettsia prowazekii. C
09:45 - 10:00 Robinson, D., N. Leo, P. Prociv, & S. Barker (Australia). Potential role of head lice, Pediculus humanus capitis, as vectors of Rickettsia prowazekii. C
     
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
     
 
Symposium VII. Phylogeny and Evolution of Lice.
Chairs: Vince Smith (UK) and Kevin Johnson (USA)
     
10:30 - 11:00 Smith, Vince (UK). Louse Wars: Data set incongruence and the problem of avian louse phylogeny. I
11:00 - 11:30 Johnson, Kevin (USA). Bridging micro and macroevolutionary patterns in avian Ischnocera. I
11:30 - 12:00 Hafner, Mark, & D.L. Reed (USA). Coevolution of chewing lice and pocket gophers. I
12:00 - 12:30 Weckstein, Jason (USA). Biogeography explains cophylogenetic patterns in toucan lice. I
     
12:30 - 01:30 Lunch
     
1:30 - 1:45 Banks, Jonathan C., & A,M. Peterson (New Zealand). Overcoming inertia: penguin and louse coevolution. C
1:45 - 2:00 Shao, Renfu, N. Campbell, & S. Barker (Australia). Numerous rearrangements of genes in mitochondrial genomes of the wallaby louse Heterodoxus macropus (Boopiidae: Amblycera). C
2:00 - 2:15 Shao, Renfu, N. Campbell, & S. Barker (Australia). Increased rate of gene arrangement in the mitochondrial genomes of three orders of hemipteroid insects (Lice, Pscoptera, Thrips). C
2:15 - 2:30 Covacin, Cath, R. Shao, & S. Barker (Australia). Evolution of mitochondrial genomes in bird lice (Ischnocera). C
2:30 - 2:45 Forde, Rebecca, A. Murrell, & S. Barker (Australia). Phylogeny of lice from Australian marsupials (Boopiidae: Amblycera). C
2:30 - 3:00 open
     
3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Tea
     
3:30 - 3:45 Cameron, Stephen, C. Chi, & S. Barker (Australia). An estimate of the size of the genome of Pediculus humanus and other ectoparasites. C
3:45 - 4:00 Barker, Steve, S. Cameron, & A. Murrell (Australia). Phylogeny of the Psocodea inferred from small subunit rDNA. C
4:00 - 4:15 Whiteman, Noah K., & P. Parker (USA). Lice of the polyandrous Galapagos Hawk: populatin genetics, coevolution and ecology. C
4:15 - 4:30 Light, Jessica E. (USA). Cophylogeny between Fahrenholzia (Anoplura: Polyplacidae) and their heteromyid rodent hosts and preliminary systematics of the Polyplacidae based on molecular data. C
4:30 - 5:00 Reed, David L., & D.H. Clayton (USA). Are human head and body lice products of sympatric speciation? Levene and Dobzansky revisited. C
     
 
Review of Congress and decision on when and where
ICP3 will be held.
     
6:30 - 7:00 Pre-dinner drinks (complimentary)
7:00 - 11:00 Conference Dinner and Dancing at Women's College.
     
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