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DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
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No. 3, July 2, 2016
20
th
International Congress of Arachnology
Friday, July 8
(*indicates student competition; name is session moderator)
Metals Hall
Petroleum Hall
8:45
Bunker Auditorium: Welcome and Information
9:00
Keynote in Bunker Auditorium. Greta Binford - How the brown recluse got
its bite: evolutionary assembly of spider venoms
10:00
Break
Symposium: Genomics
Mating Systems
10:25
Henrik Krehenwinkel
-Next generation
sequencing for high throughput assessment
of HI arthropod diversity
Madeline Girard
- What makes males red-
hot: mate choice in the peacock spider
Maratus volans
10:45
*
Ellie Armstrong
- Rapid diversification of
spiders on islands - comparative and
population genomic inferences
Matthias Foellmer
- Male mating success
locomotory performance and metabolic rate
in
Argiope aurantia
11:00
Susan Kennedy
- Next generation
sequencing of gut content to study niche
ecology in spiders
Kasey Fowler-Finn
- The bizarre world of
reproduction in leiobunine harvestmen: the
evolution of mating behavior
11:15
Darko Cotoras
- Genetic mosaic among
ecologically similar species within an
adaptive radiation of Hawaiian spiders
*
Joseph Hill
- Activity patterns and mating
behaviors of an arboreal tarantula:
Avicularia
laeta
11:30
*
Abhilesh Dhawanjewar
- Population
genomics & mitochondrial-nuclear
discordance in range expanding
Argiope
bruennichi
*
Alexander Sweger
- Behavioral responses
to varying acoustic stimuli in the wolf spider
Gladicosa gulosa
11:45
*
Rebecca Wilson
- Influence of
catecholamines on circadian rhythmicity of
anti-predator behavior in orb-weaving
spiders
*
Linda Hernández Duran
- Sexual
behavior and mating plugs as a tool of
mating choice in the orb-web spider
Leucauge
acuminata
12:00
Lunch. Posters must be removed by noon. Student Competition Judges sub-
group meetings. Silent Auction Items moved to DMNS
Symposium: Genomics & Venom
Ecology
12:55
Rosa Fernández
- Unraveling the
Chelicerata tree of life: phylogenomic
resolution of chelicerate interrelationships
based on deep taxon sampling
Yann Hénaut
- The good the bad and the
ugly. The association between a bromeliad,
an ant and a spider
13:15
Jessica Garb
- Genomic perspectives on the
evolution of black widow and house spider
venoms
Christopher Buddle
- The natural history
and thermal biology of an Arctic
pseudoscorpion
13:30
Robert Haney
- House spider venom and
silk gland transcriptomes reveal a complex
transcriptional landscape
Christopher A. Brown
- Retreat site
selection in two species of Sky Island
scorpions from Arizona
13:45
Pamela Zobel-Thropp
- If they could only
bite you: venom composition and potency of
daddy long-leg spider venom
Norman Horner
- A myrmecophilic spider
from West Texas with discussion of biology
and taxonomy