Year 2 Meeting of the NSF-PEET Grant

Towards a World Monograph of the Therevidae

22-23 September 1997
167 Environmental & Agricultural Sciences Bldg.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, September 22

Morning:

8:00  Introductory remarks; meeting our project goals; spin-offs Irwin
8:30  Schlinger Foundation Ev Schlinger
8:45 Interactive Keys & LucID Yeates
9:15 Databases: goals & organization Kampmeier & Thompson
10:00 Break
10:30 Databases: making it comprehensive Kampmeier & Thompson

 

Afternoon:

 

 12:00 Box lunch
 12:45 Campus unit interactions (5-minute introductions)
ACES & NRES
Department of Entomology
Illinois Natural History Survey
Center for Economic Entomology
Center for Biodiversity
Gary Rolfe
May Berenbaum
Ed Armbrust
Rob Wiedenmann
Goeff Levin
 1:00 Research Focus – opening remarks Irwin
 1:05 Illustration progress Mullett
 1:15 University of Queensland activities
Field work and surveys
Physiology and histology of the female sac
Yeates
 1:45 Family level phylogenetics
Morphological data and Apsilocephala
Irwin & Yeates
 2:15 Molecular data and Apsilocephala Wiegmann & Yang
 3:00 Break
 3:30 Genus level cladistics and monographs
Anabarhynchus
Irwin
Lyneborg, Irwin, Yeates
 3:45 Agapophytinae (3 genera) Winterton & Yeates
 4:30 Tabuda, and a new genus Webb
 5:00 Discussion
 5:30 Adjourn

Tuesday, September 23

Morning:

8:00 Towards Monographs
Morphometrics
Metz
8:30 Brachylinga
 Lindneria
Metz
9:15 Thereva Holston
9:45 Rearing Holston
10:00 Break
10:30 Fossils  Gaimari, Metz
10:45 Towards Monographs
Cyclotelini
Ozodiceromyia
Gaimari

Afternoon:

12:00 Box lunch
12:45 Dissemination, internet Kampmeier
 1:30 Look to the Future (discussion)
The future for dissemination
Database and its future
Research thrusts
Training, students, and the PEET Workshop
Expeditions for 1998
Irwin
3:00 Wiegmann departs for airport
4:30 Adjourn