Title: Lyell Meeting 2002
Lyell Meeting 2002
' Approaches to reconstructing phylogeny'
Wednesday 5th June 2002,
organised by Andy Gale (Greenwich) and Philip Donoghue
(Birmingham)
held at the The Geological Society, Burlington House,
Picadilly, London W1J 0BG
Rationale. Currently used approaches to the
reconstruction of phylogeny are very diverse, and are determined both
by the tradition of study (often itself particular to an individual
group of organisms), the philosophical approach adopted and partly by
the quality of the data available. Extremes are illustrated by studies
in which lineages are identified from a direct stratigraphical reading
of the fossil record, to those which consider that phylogeny can only
be reconstructed by time-independant cladistic analysis of
morphological and molecular data. This meeting seeks to
illustrate this diversity of approach and provide a forum for
discussion and comparison of methodologies.
Registration. Free to members of the sponsoring societies
(Geological Society of London, Micropalaeontological Society [formerly
British Micropalaeontological Society], Palaeontological Association,
Palaeontographical Society) and £20 to all others. It is possible to
register on the day, but best to register in advance by contacting
Clair Parks <clair.parks@geolsoc.org.uk> or Helen Wilson
<helen.wilson@geolsoc.org.uk> at the Geological Society of
London Conference Office.
Program
10.00-11.00 Registration
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.10 Introduction
11.10-11.40 Jon Adrain - Time and phylogeny reconstruction
11.40-12.00 Mark Wilkinson - Consensus trees and consensus
supertrees
12.00-12.20 Chris Paul - What use is the fossil record?
12.20-12.40 Andy Gale - Rock-record bias and phylogeny
reconstruction
12.40-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.20 Callomon - Jurassic ammonites: real phylogeny in real
time
14.20-14.50 Peter Wagner - Testing general phylogenetic
hypotheses with likelihood: monophyletic versus polyphyletic
bellerophont molluscs
14.50-15.10 Paul Upchurch - Historical biogeography - where
phylogenetics tangles with a reticulate system?
15.10-15.30 Alan Cooper - Molecular evidence for the phylogeny of
ratites
15.30-15.50 Paul Kenrick - The Problems with Plants
15.50-16.30 Tea
16.30-16.20 Paul Pearson - The ups and downs of phylogeny
16.20-16.40 Phil Donoghue - Conodonts meet cladistics: phylogenetic
systematics and the microfossil record
16.40-17.00 Jeremy Young - Coccolithophore phylogeny - combining
palaeontological, biological and molecular data
17.00-17.30 Matt Wills - Cladograms and stratigraphic congruence
17.30 Meeting close
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Dr Philip Donoghue
Lecturer in Palaeobiology
School of Earth Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)
121 414 6151
Fax: +44 (0)
121 414 4942
Email: p.c.j.donoghue@bham.ac.uk