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Thursday 12th June
10:00-16:30 – Workshop on Computational Methods in Macroevolutionary Analysis led by Dan Rabosky, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Location: small lecture theater above the cafeteria
Thursday 12th June evening
17:00-20:00 – Registration and Ice-breaker
Friday 13th June
08:45 Opening
09:00 -11:00 Angiosperm Overview - Elena Conti
09:00 Susana Magallon - A metacalibrated diversification study of flowering plants
09:30 Luke Harman - Progressive Radiations and the Pulse of Angiosperm Diversification
10:00 Erika Edwards - What is so special about the Miocene?
10:30 -11:00 – Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Biotic Interactions - Peter Linder
11:00 Susanne Renner - Hummingbirds and their plants in time and space
11:30 Steve Johnson - Using ecotypes to reveal the role of niche shifts in plant radiations
12:00 Daniel Kissling - Frugivory and plant radiations
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Case Studies - Reto Nyffeler
14:00 Rick Ree - Causes and consequences of diversification in Pedicularis
14:30 Toby Pennington - Inga: a case study for evolutionary radiation in tropical rain forest trees 15:00 Elena Conti - Processes and outcomes of diversification in Primulaceae: explorations on the functional and evolutionary roles of heterostyly
15:30 Coffee
16:00-18:00 – Poster session
18:00 Garden Tour
Saturday 14th June
09:00-10:30: Methods - Colin Hughes
9:00 Tanja Stadler - A unified analysis of neontological and paleontological data
9:30 Daniele Silvestro - Opportunities and challenges to investigating plant diversification from the fossil record
10:00 Dan Rabosky - Analysis and visualisation of complex macroevolutionary dynamics with BAMM
10:30-11:00 – Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Special habitats - Peter Linder
11:00 Santiago Madriñán - Patterns and processes of Páramo plant diversification
11:30 Colin Hughes - Comparative montane plant radiations: from the Andes to the Hengduan Mountains
12:00 Mark Carine - Island radiations and the evolution of the Macaronesian Island floras
12:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Special habitats -- Reto Nyffeler
14:00 Tony Verboom -- Topography as a driver of diversification in the Cape Floristic Region
14:30 Mike Crisp - Three explanations for mediterranean-climate biodiversity hotspots: small range size, geographic overlap and time for species accumulation
15:00 Bob Ricklefs - How tree species fill geographic and ecological space in eastern North America
15:30 Coffee
16:00-17:30 Mixed - Colin Hughes
16:00 Peter Linder - Testing the effect of environments and traits on Angiosperm radiations
16:30 Tim Barraclough - The evolutionary reality of species and higher taxa in plants
17:00 Christian Lexer - Genomics of the speciation continuum: towards understanding the drivers and limits of radiations
17:30 Mike Donoghue - Explosive radiations and dying embers in plant phylogeny
18:00-18:10 Close
19:00-‐22:00 Boat dinner
Sunday 15th June
Post-conference one-day excursion to Schynige Platte, an alpine botanical garden situated at 1970 m, which boasts an almost complete collection of Swiss alpine plant species, and offers a stunning alpine panorama of the Eiger Northface, Mönch and Jungfrau. Depart 07:30