IX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF VERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY - ICVM-9 Congreso Organizador(es): Facultad de Ciencias Lugar: CONRAD RESORT & CASINO HOTEL Dirección: Rambla Williman Parada 4, Playa Mansa Punta del Este, Maldonado Fecha: 23/7/2010 31/7/2010
Aranceles de inscripción: Early registration fee (valid only until November 1st):
Regular USD 220
Students USD 100
Registration fee from November 2nd:
Regular USD 300
Students USD 150
Temario: From the 26th to the 31st July 2010, you will be most welcome in Punta del Este, Uruguay, to gather at the ICVM-9. Past and present South American vertebrate diversity will be celebrated in this meeting, although we are confident that the meeting will be as ecumenical as the previous eight, with scientists from all over the world conveying the joy of morphological discovery in its widest sense.
Congress schedule:
Confirmed plenary speakers:
- Arkhat Abzhanov (Harvard, USA) works on the evolution of craniofacial patterning in Darwin's finches. www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/abzhanov
- Eugenia del Pino (PUC, Ecuador) works on the embryonic development of several kinds of tropical frogs with unusual reproductive systems. http://www.biologia.puce.edu.ec/azul.php?c=239
- Melina Hale (Chicago, USA) works on biomechanics and neurobiology of axial locomotion in fishes. http://pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/hale_lab/ http://pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/hale_m.html
- Gabriel Marroig (USP, Brazil) works on the evolution of morphological integration using combinations of landmark morphometrics and quantitative genetics with evolutionary implications. http://dreyfus.ib.usp.br/pesq11.htm
- Peter Wainwright (Davis, USA) works on comparative functional morphology addressing questions about the origins and consequences of functional diversity. http://www.eve.ucdavis.edu/~wainwrightlab/
We’ll have the following symposia and workshops (please consider this list as preliminary, some adjustments are to be made):
- Evolution and development of the vertebrate ear. Conveners: Bernd Fritsch & Fernando Giráldez. - Form and function in the Xenarthra. Conveners: François Pujos & Timothy Gaudin. - Life history effects on development and morphology in amphibians. Conveners: Hendrick Müller & Ryan Kerney. - Gigantism in terrestrial vertebrates (2 blocks). Conveners: Martin Sander & Andreas Christian. - Generation of morphological diversity: Developmental mechanisms of vertebrate jaw evolution. Conveners: Rich Schneider & Abigail Tucker. - Grasping in tetrapods. Conveners: Anthony Herrel & Virginia Abdala. - Workshop: Three dimensional X-ray motion analysis. Conveners: Martin S. Fischer & Beth Brainerd. - Limitations of computational reconstructions: musculoskeletal evolution (2 blocks). Conveners: Emily Rayfield, John Hutchinson & Stephen Gatesy. - Specializations for foetal nutrition in viviparous vertebrates: Functional morphology and evolution. Conveners: Daniel G. Blackburn & James R. Stewart. - Evolutionary morphology of the vocal apparatus. Conveners: Dominique G. Homberger & Roland Frey. - Evolution and development of the lateral plate. Conveners: Ann Burke & Peter Currie. - Morphology, evolution and development of cerebellum-like structures. Convener: Ángel Caputi
Time of sessions:
Symposiums:
15 minutes for opening and closing remarks, respectively.
20 minutes for each presentation, plus 5 for questions.
Oral sessions:
15 minutes for each presentation, plus 5 for questions.