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5Th International Congress of Dipterology Provisional Program 6/9/2020 5th International Dipterology Conference 5th International Congress of Dipterology Provisional Program Sunday 29 September | Monday 30 September | Tuesday 1 October | Wednesday 2 October | Thursday 3 October | Friday 4 October Time SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 4.00pm - REGISTRATION 5.00pm - 7.00pm - WELCOME DRINKS - Student Union Heath/Holt Rooms 6pm Welcome Address by David Yeates "Blowies, Mossies and the Great Aussie Salute" Time MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 8.00 - REGISTRATION 9.00- WELCOME and OPENING ADDRESS - Steele Building Room 206 9.30 Welcome by David Yeates (Chair) Welcome to University of Queensland by Professor David Siddle (Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Queensland) Geoff Garrett (CEO, CSIRO) 9.30- SYMPOSIUM - The Influence of Modern Innovations on Systematic Inquiry, with Emphasis on 10.30 Diptera (Chair: Mike Irwin) The influence of modern innovations on systematic inquiry, with emphasis on Diptera Michael Irwin Phylogenetic assessment: the advent of the Hennigian Philosophy Rudolf Meier Molecular biology: a set of new characters for phylogenetic assessment Brian Wiegmann Modern innovations in systematic inquiry Christine Lambkin 10.30- REFRESHMENTS - Student Union 11.00 11.00- Bioinformatics and the manipulation of biological information Jim Croft 12.30 Web-based description and identification - what tools do we need? Kevin Thiele Geographical information systems: the spatial patterning of life David Peters Interpreting the fossil record of Diptera: the temporal patterning of life David Grimaldi Interpreting spatio-temporal patterns among select clades of Diptera Evert Schlinger The urgency to make all life known Ian Cresswell 12.30- LUNCH - Student Union 1.30 1.30- SYMPOSIUM - The Influence of Modern WORKSHOP - Hornfly Management and 3.00 Innovations on Systematic Inquiry with Resistance Emphasis on Diptera (continued) (Chair: Mike Steele Building Room 309 Irwin) (Chair: Lane Foil) and SYMPOSIUM - Diptera in Biodiversity and Conservation 1 (Chair: Rudolf Meier) Steele Building Room 206 Diptera: a lot of flies yet to be discovered Chris An overview of Horn Fly (Diptera: Muscidae) resistance Thompson surveys and research programs in the United States Fred Knapp https://web.archive.org/web/20040313164131fw_/http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/dipterol/program.html#Sunday 1/10 6/9/2020 5th International Dipterology Conference Discovering and managing the patterns of life - from Field surveys of insecticide resistance in Australian RAM to rammed earth: a perspective from UNESCO buffalo fly Haematobia irritans exigua De Meijere Ian Cresswell (Diptera: Muscidae) Bill Farnsworth Concluding remarks, questions and discussion: A summary of studies on the economic impact of horn Panel of Speakers David Yeates flies Jerry Hogsette 2.15pm SYMPOSIUM - Diptera in Biodiversity Management and resistance of horn fly and buffalo fly: and Conservation 1 diagnostic techniques for metabolic resistance John Pruett Guild analyses in the study of dipteran biodiversity; a rationale and critique Roger Kitching Management and resistance of horn fly and buffalo fly: diagnostic techniques for target site resistance Felix Diptera diversity on tree trunks Daniel Bickel Guerrero Australian glowworms (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Movement of horn flies among cattle herds Ronnie Arachnocampa Spp.): identity, diversity, and Byford management Claire Baker 3.00- REFRESHMENTS - Student Union 3.30 3.30- SYMPOSIUM - Diptera in WORKSHOP - Hornfly WORKSHOP - Sciomyzidae 5.00 Biodiversity and Conservation Management and Resistance Steele Building Room 324 2 Steele Building Room 309 (Chair: Lloyd Knutson) Steele Building Room 206 (Chair: Lane Foil) (Chair: Dan Bickel) Antler flies (Phytalmia, Behaviour-modifying systems for The struggle over reconstructing the Tephritidae) are fascinating, but the control of buffalo fly, phylogenetic relationships of the not bioindicators Gary Dodson Haematobia irritans exigua de Sciomyzoidea (Diptera) Rudolf Meier Meijere (Diptera: Muscidae) Sedges, mud and myriads of flies: Rudolf Urech Morphodiversity and biodiversity in the brachyceran fauna of sedge Sepedon Latreille and related genera: meadows in southern Canada Control of the horn fly and buffalo a lineage, a tribe, or a subfamily? Frederic Beaulieu fly - past, present and future (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) Lloyd chemistries and strategies John Knutson Chironomid communities (Diptera, Riner Chironomidae) in cold alpine Sepedon knutsoni, a second springs. Prospect for a long-term The use of endectocides for horn oligochaete feeding sciomyzid from biomonitoring Elisabeth Stur fly control James Hawkins Africa Jean-Claude Vala The dipteran fauna of a Central Strategies for managing horn fly, Predation and trail-following European mountain stream Haematobia irritans, resistance behaviour in selected marsh fly Ruediger Wagner Lane Foil species (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) Rory Mc Donnell The method of the evaluation of antropogenic changes in the environment by means of the family Chloropidae (Diptera). Stepan Kubik Habitat modification and dipteran biodiversity in central New Zealand Ian Andrew Biodiversity patterns in Neotropical dolichopodid faunas (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) Marc Pollet Status and geographical distribution of three endangered Karelian keroplatids (Diptera: Keroplatidae) Dimitri Bartenev 5.00 - HAPPY HOUR / POSTER VIEWING - POSTER AUTHORS TO BE PRESENT Student Union Heath/Holt Rooms FREE EVENING https://web.archive.org/web/20040313164131fw_/http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/dipterol/program.html#Sunday 2/10 6/9/2020 5th International Dipterology Conference Time TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER 8.00 - REGISTRATION PLENARY SPEAKER - Steele Building Room 206 8.10- Phylogenetic relationships of nematocerous Diptera: synopsis of recent hypotheses Greg Courtney, Iowa 8.50 State University (Chair: Monty Wood) 9.00- SYMPOSIUM - Multiple Data SYMPOSIUM - Sperm Olympics: Sperm WORKSHOP - Muscidae, 10.30 Set Analyses for Dipteran Competiton, Cryptic Female Choice and Anthomyiidae Phylogenetics Mating Behaviour in Diptera Steel Building Room 324 Steele Building Room 206 Steele Building Room 309 (Chair: Adrian Pont) (Chair: Brian Wiegmann) (Chair: Marion Kotrba) A genomic approach to The female reproductive tract in Diptera I: an Diversity and taxonomy of phylogenetics: multiple gene introduction Marion Kotrba catkin flies (Egle, systematics of the Anthomyiidae) Graham Drosophilidae Patrick The female reproductive tract in Diptera II: Griffiths O'Grady morphological diversity and details of the female reproductive tract in acalyptrate Schizophora The plumosa group of Significant incongruence can Marion Kotrba Hydrophoria be informative: insights from (Anthomyiidae) Masaaki partitioned support analyses Female remating, operational sex ratio, and the Suwa Christine Lambkin arena of sexual selection Therese Markow A cladistic analysis of the Genes, fossils and The labyrinth explored: female sperm storage Muscidae: first results - morphology: combined data organs, related structures, and sperm storage and problems Adrian Pont analysis and a revised time patterns in the tephritid fly, Anastrepha scale for higher-level suspensa. Ann Fritz Muscidae (Diptera) of the phylogeny of the Brachycera Neotropical Region: Brian Wiegmann Female remating, sperm displacement, remating taxonomy of the basal speed, fertility, Drosophila ananassae Shree groups Claudio Carvalho Molecular and morphological Ram Singh evidence supporting Muscidae (Diptera) of the relationships within Non-antagonistic reproductive interactions Neotropical Region - Eremoneura: focus on between the sexes: offsetting the load of sexual taxonomy of the apical Cyclorrhapha Jeff Skevington conflict Lacey Knowles groups M‡rcia Couri Multiple data sets in A molecular phylogeny of addressing complex the Stomoxys group based evolutionary questions within on cytochrome oxidase I. Diptera: case studies within (Presented by Adrian Pont) Empidoidea and Simuliidae Rosanna Giordano John Moulton In search of an outgroup for the Tanyderidae (Diptera): conflict or congruence? Darlene Judd 10.30- REFRESHMENTS - Student Union 11.00 11.00- SYMPOSIUM - Multiple Data Set Analyses for WORKSHOP - Muscidae, Anthomyiidae 12.30 Dipteran Phylogenetics (continued) Steele Building Room 324 (Chair: Brian Wiegmann) (Chair: Adrian Pont) and SYMPOSIUM - Diptera in Biodiversity and Conservation 3 (Chair: Rudolf Meier) Steele Building Room 206 Multiple data sets and syrphid phylogenetics Gunilla Phylogeny of the genus Thricops Rondani (Diptera: Stahls-Makela Muscidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Jade Savage Phylogeny of Syrphinae (Diptera, Syrphidae) on the basis of morphological and molecular characters Heikki Distributional pattern of Muscidae in the Neotropical Hippa Region - a preliminary approach Claudio Carvalho https://web.archive.org/web/20040313164131fw_/http://www.uq.edu.au/entomology/dipterol/program.html#Sunday 3/10 6/9/2020 5th International Dipterology Conference Combining molecular and morphological data for Comparison of the cuticular hydrocarbons of 7 Sepsidae, Coelopidae, and Diopsidae: More conflict than Musca spp. worldwide (Diptera: Muscidae) David congruence Rudolf Meier Carlson Phylogeny of the small headed-flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) using multiple molecular markers Shaun Winterton 15 minute break before start of next session SYMPOSIUM - Diptera in Biodiversity and Conservation 3 An estimate of dipteran species- richness in Australia David Yeates 12.30- LUNCH - Student Union 1.30 1.30- SYMPOSIUM - Diptera in WORKSHOP - Management
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