Symposium number: 25

Title: ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF NEOTROPICAL BIRDS

Principal organizer: Cristina Miyaki
Dept. Biologia, Inst. Biociencias, University of Sao Paulo, Rua do Matao 277, 05508-900 Sao Paulo - SP, Brazil
email: cymiyaki@ib.usp.br

Second organizer: John Bates
Dept. of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago -  IL 60605-2496, USA

First keynote speaker: Alexandre Aleixo
Dept. Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Caixa Postal 399, 66040-170 Belém - PA, Brazil
Title of first keynote paper: Gene trees, landscape evolution, and geology: Towards a modern synthesis of Amazonian historical biogeography

Second keynote speaker: John Bates
Dept. of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago - IL 60605-2496, USA
Title of second keynote paper: Understanding and interpreting the comparative patterns of genetic diversity and evolution in neotropical birds

Contributed talks

Symposium description: The Neotropical avifauna is one of the most diverse in the world. Accordingly, this symposium aims to evaluate how molecular data have and can improve our understanding of the evolutionary history and processes underlying that diversification. Results from investigations of birds occurring in a variety of regions and habitats will be presented, and will incorporate advances in types of data and analytical tools. Gaps in information will also be highlighted. The symposium hopes to stimulate interest about why the Neotropics are so bird speciose and why the elements of the bird fauna are distributed in the way they are. It will also draw attention, from the molecular aspect, to priorities and prospects for the future of the avifauna.

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