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DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
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No. 3, July 2, 2016
Cushing
Sunday, July 3
(*indicates student competition; name indicates session moderator)
Metals Hall
Petroleum Hall
Marquez Hall MZ126
8:30
Bunker Auditorium: Welcome from Golden Mayor Marjorie Sloan and ICA Host Paula Cush ing
9:00
Keynote in Bunker Auditorium. Ximena Nelson - Trans-taxa: Spiders that dress as ants
10:00
Break - Grand Lobby
Symposium: Biology of Scorpions
Ecology
Biodiversity
10:25
Alfredo Peretti
- Reproductive biology of
scorpions: Patterns and mechanisms of
sexual selection
Marco Isaia
- The dark side of climate
change
*
Nicholas DiRienzo
- Developmental
experience shapes life history, behavior, and
web structure of black widows
10:45
Lionel Monod
- Are male copulatory
structures in the order Scorpiones
informative at suprageneric levels?
*
Sarah Rose
- Understanding how changes
in the ground spider community can
enhance restoration practices
Ann Rypstra,
- Experience with
contaminated soil affects learning in a wolf
spider
11:00
Edmundo Gonzalez-Santillán
-
Centruroides as a model to understand the
origin and evolution of venoms
Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte
- How far is
far? Spatial variation in the structure of
spider communities in Tanzania
J. Andrew Roberts
- Influence of predators
and senescence on male courtship
investment in a wolf spider
11:15
Carlos Santibanez-Lopez
- Filling pieces in
the scorpion venom puzzle
*
Stefano Mammola
- The ecological niche
of subterranean spiders
*
Rachel Gilbert
- Immune stress and sexual
signaling in the wolf spider
Schizocosa ocreata
11:30
Prashant Sharma
- Comparative analysis
of euchelicerate genomes supports a single
origin of the arachnid book lung
*
Mark Robertson
- What factors affect the
relative abundance of dense three
dimensional webs?
Peter Midford
- An Ontology for Spider
Behavior
11:45
*
Emily Setton
- Developmental Genetics of
Respiratory Structures in Arachno-
pulmonate and Non-Arachnop. orders
Alan Cady
- Spiders in grazed pastures:
Comparisons between rotational vs.
conventional grazing
Richard Vetter
- Effect of seasonal
photoperiod onmolting in
Loxosceles reclusa
and
Loxosceles laeta
12:00
Lunch on your own; Poster Presenters hang posters Grand Lobby; Student Competition Judges Meeting (lunch
provided) Golden Visitor's Center Conference Room, 1010 Washington Ave.
Symposium: Visual information
acquisition, processing, and
cognition
Taxonomy
Biodiversity
12:55
Skye Long
- Variation in morphology and
organization of the secondary eye optic
neuropils across the order of Araneae
Jeremy Miller
- Resolving the taxonomic
impediment
Stefan Foord
- The effect of elevation and
time onmountain spider diversity: a view of
two aspects in Cederberg Mtn. South Africa