paleonet Lyell 2002

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Hi All,

The last announcement in respect of the 2002 Lyell Meeting, I promise.

The abstracts for the meeting are now available for download from the 
Palaeontological Association website <www.palass.org>, click on 
meetings, the hyperlink to the abstract PDF file is just above the 
programme.

As a final reminder, the programme is as follows:

Methods of Phylogenetic Reconstruction
organised by Andy Gales (Greenwich, UK) and Phil Donoghue (Birmingham, UK)
5th June 2002 at Burlington House, Picadilly, London, UK.

09.30-11.00  Registration

10.00-11.00  Tea, Coffee and Biscuits

11.00-11.10   Introduction
11.10-11.40  Time and phylogeny reconstruction Jon Adrain (University 
of Iowa, USA)
11.40-12.00  Consensus trees and consensus supertrees Mark Wilkinson 
(Natural History Museum, UK)
12.00-12.20  What use is the fossil record? Chris Paul (University of 
Liverpool, UK)
12.20-12.40  Rock-record bias and phylogenetic reconstruction Andy 
Gale (University of Greenwich, UK)

12.40-14.00  Lunch

14.00-14.20  Jurassic ammonites: real phylogeny in real time John Calloman
14.20-14.50  Testing general phylogenetic hypotheses with likelihood: 
monophyletic versus polyphyletic bellerphont molluscs Peter Wagner 
(Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA)
14.50-15.10  Historical biogeography - where phylogenetics tangles 
with a reticulate system Paul Upchurch (University of Cambridge, UK)
15.10-15.30  Phylogenetics and the molecular clock Jen Jackson 
(University of Oxford, UK)
15.30-15.50  The problem with plants Paul Kenrick

15.50-16.30  Tea, Coffee and biscuits

16.30-16.20  The ups and downs of phylogeny Paul Pearson
16.20-16.40  Conodonts meet cladistics: phylogenetic systematics and 
the microfossil record Phil Donoghue
16.40-17.00  Coccolithophore phylogeny - combining palaeontological, 
biological and molecular data Jeremy Young
17.00-17.30   Cladograms and stratigraphic congruence Matt Wills

For further details and registration, please contact Clair Parks 
<clair.parks@geolsoc.org.uk> or Helen Wilson 
<helen.wilson@geolsoc.org.uk> at the Geological Society of London 
Conference Office.
-- 
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