SICB 2007 Symposium

Phoenix, Arizona
January 3 – 7, 2007

Key transitions in animal evolution

Organized by B. Schierwater, S. Dellaporta & R. DeSalle

 

Name	Institute	Title
Vicki Pearse	Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California	Real-World Placozoans: Beyond the Genome (AMS Past Presidential Address, held on Jan. 4, Room 213AB)
Ferdinando Boero, Stefano Piraino	DiSTeBA , University Lecce, Italy	Cnidarian milestones in metazoan evolution
Emma Steenkamp, Yu Liu, Daniel Darmon, Gertraud Burger, Franz Lang	University of Montreal, Canada / University of Pretoria, South Africa	The evolutionary transition from protists to Metazoa: mitochondrial genome organisation, and phylogenomic analyses based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes
David K. Jacobs, Scott Nichols, Volker Hartenstein, Nagayasu Nakanishi, David Yuan	UCLA / UC Berkeley	Origins of Sensory and Neural Organization in Basal Metazoa
G�nter Wagner	Yale University	Do Genome Duplications Play a Role in Key Transitions?
Neil W. Blackstone	Northern Illinois University	Redox signaling and the transition from basal metazoans to bilaterians
Paulyn Cartwright, Allen G. Collins	University of Kansas / Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC	Rocks and Clocks: Integrating Fossils and Molecules to Date Transitions in Early Animal Evolution
Mark Q. Martindale	University of Hawaii	The developmental basis of body plan organization in the Eumetazoa
Danielle de Jong, David J. Miller, Bernd Schierwater, David C. Hayward, Eldon E. Ball	James Cook University, AIMS / Australian National University / ITZ Ecology & Evolution	Implications of cnidarian gene expression data for the origins of bilaterality � is the glass half full or half empty?
Michael E. Akam, C. Brena, A.C. Chipman, J. Eriksson, A. Peel	University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge UK	The origin(s) of segmentation
Peter W H Holland	University of Oxford	More than one way to make a worm
Heike Hadrys, Bernd Schierwater, Rob DeSalle, Wolfgang Jakob, Werner Schroth, Stephen Dellaporta	ITZ, Ecology and Evolution / Dept. of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University / AMNH	Total Evidence Analysis Identifies Placozoa as Basal to Extant Metazoa