Australasian Systematic Botany Society conference 24‐28 November 2014 Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Monday, November 24 10:00‐5:00 pm ASBS Council meeting Wharerata Homestead – Rata room, Massey campus (F7 on campus map) 5:00 pm ASBS Welcome Barbecue Wharerata Homestead – Russell room, Massey campus (F7 on campus map) Post‐grad/Post‐doc pub crawl (led by Jessie Prebble and Todd McLay) 8:30 am ‐ 5:10 pm 12:30 pm 5:20 pm Tuesday, November 25 Oral presentations – AgHort Lecture block (F10 on campus map) Plenary speaker: Dr. Heidi Meudt (Te Papa) “Next‐generation, integrative, collaborative systematics” Sessions: Paleobotany, Hybridization and Polyploidy, and Taxonomy Getting published! Workshop for early career scientists on publishing successfully Led by Daniel Murphy (Editor‐in‐Chief of Australian Systematic Botany) The White Paper on Systematics Breakout discussion session with drinks and nibbles Led by Katharina Schulte and Bill Barker AH4 Wednesday, November 26 8:45 am ‐ 4:10 pm Oral presentations– AgHort Lecture block Plenary speaker: Dr. Peter Weston (Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Nancy Burbidge Medal recipient), “Problems and progress in plant systematics since Nancy Burbidge” Sessions: Species limits, Biogeography and Phylogeny 12:30 pm Poster session during lunch break 4:15 pm ASBS Annual General Meeting (AH2) 6:30 pm Conference dinner at Halikarnas Turkish restaurant 15 Fitzherbert Ave, near the Square Thursday, November 27 8:45 am – 3:00 pm Oral presentations– AgHort Lecture block Plenary speaker: Dr. Phil Novis (Landcare Research), “Next‐generation systematics and the algae: the importance of character evolution” Sessions: Biogeography and Phylogeny, NZ Flora, E‐Floras 3:30 pm Student award presentations and welcome to ASBS 2015 (Canberra) 4:30 pm Close Friday, November 28 Field trip to the Volcanic Plateau 8:00 am Depart Massey campus (Colombo Road bus stop, E9 on campus map) 7:00 pm Return Massey campus (Colombo Road bus stop) MASSEY UNIVERSITY
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AgHort Lecture Block
AgHort Science Building - AH
Agricultural Engineering
Aston Lecture Theatres 1 & 2 - Sci T B
Auditorium - Old Main Building
Bernard Chambers A, B, C
Bennetts Bookshop - Commercial Com.
Business Studies West/Central - BSW/C
Careers Info Service - Registry
Chaplaincy
Child Care Centre
Club House
Commercial Complex
Computing Services
Concourse
Conference Centre Office - Wharerata
Design Studio - Printery
Disability Building - X
Disability Office - House 40
Ecology Building
English Language Centre - ISC
Enrolment Office - Registry
Extramural - NSATS
Extramural Students' Society
Geography Building - GLB
Grounds
Halls of Residence Admin Office
Human Resource Annex
Human Resource Section
Information Centre - Registry
Information Desk - Registry
International Students' Office - ISC
Ira Cunningham Lecture Theatre
Islamic Prayer Centre
Japan Lecture Theatre
Landcare Research
Liaison Office - Old Main Building
Library
Mail Room - Registry
Maori Community Liaison Office
Marsden Lecture Theatre - Sci T B
Massey Kids Club
Natural Heritage Foundation, NZ
New Tech Developments - Registry
NZ Centre for Japanese Studies
NZ Post - Commercial Complex
Old Boiler House
Old Main Building - MB
Pink Hostel - PH
Refectory - REF
Photographic Centre - Printery
Practical Teaching Complex
Printery
Property Management Section
Psychology Building
Psychology Clinic - Bernard Ch B
Psychology Cottage Annex
Radio Control - 99.4FM
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Social Science Lecture Block SSLB
Social Science Tower - SST
Sport and Recreation Centre
Student Centre – MUSA Cafeteria
Student Counselling
Student Finances
Student Health
Student Learning Centre
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TDU - Training and Development
Traffic - Bernard Ch C
Veterinary Clinic
White House
Wharerata - Staff Club
Wool Building - WB
Works and Services
College of Business
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Accountancy and Business Law - PH
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Applied and Int. Economics - SST
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Centre for Dispute Resolution
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Finance, Banking & Property Studies - REF
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Human Resource Management - BSW
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Management Systems - BSC
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Outer School of Aviation
College of Humanities and Social Science
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Pro Vice-Chancellor's Office - SST Ext
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School of Global Studies - SST
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School of English and Media Studies - MB
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School of Health Science - SST
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School of History, Philosophy and Politics - MB
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School of Psychology - PLB
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School of Social Policy and Social Work - SST
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School of Sociology and Women's Studies - SST
College of Science
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Pro Vice-Chancellor's Office
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Institute of Molecular Biosciences
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Plenary
Plenary
10:55 Todd McLay: How much data is needed? The use of next‐generation sequencing to resolve evolutionary questions in Xanthorrhoea Species limits
10:25 morning tea
10:55 Daphne Lee: New records of leaves, flowers, fruits and pollen from the Miocene of southern New Zealand: Araliaceae, Meliaceae, Monimiaceae
8:45 Plenary: Phil Novis
"Next generation systematics” and algae: the importance of character evolution 9:45 Tanja Schuster: A Molecular Phylogeny of Polygonoideae (Polygonaceae)
10:05 Trevor Wilson: Australian mints (Lamiaceae: subtribe Westringieae): generic limits and insights on evolution of floral morphology and pollination
10:25 morning tea
10:55 Katharina Schulte: Diversification and macroevolution of hyperdiverse Australasian terrestrial orchids: case studies in Diurideae 11:15 Yu Ito: Redefined ….again! A new delimitation of the genus Althenia (Potamogetonaceae) 11:35 John Conran: Pollination and Dispersal Syndromes in Miocene Floras from New Zealand 11:35 Allison Hewitt: Cross‐species amplification of microsatellite markers to assess population genetic structure in a rare Myrtaceous shrub.
11:35 Peter Lockhart: What's all the fuss about Amborella ?
11:50 Lunch 12:30 Workshop: Getting published! 11:50 Lunch ‐ posters 11:50 Lunch
1:20 Phil Garnock‐Jones: New Zealand flowers: what do the birds and the bees see? 1:40 Alexander Schmidt‐Lebuhn: Species delimitation and relationships in Australian Billy Buttons (Craspedia )
1:40 Aaron Wilton: The Australasian Virtual Herbarium
2:00 Matthias Becker: Drought escape strategy may terribly fail in times of climate change 2:00 Lalita Simpson: What is at risk? Climate impacts on Australia's Wet Tropics mountain top plant diversity
2:00 Ilse Breitwieser: eBiota of New Zealand: development of the next‐generation New Zealand Flora, Mycota and Fauna 2:20 Benjamin Anderson: A next‐generation sequencing approach to assess diversification and hybridization in the Triodia basedowii E.Pritz. (Poaceae) species group 2:20 Charles Foster: Estimating the evolutionary timescale of flowering plants using complete chloroplast genome sequences 2:20 Leon Perrie: Citizen science –is it useful for professional botanists? 2:40 Robyn Barker: Tales from the Type Bay 2:40 Hernan Retamales: Character evolution in Myrceugenia (Myrtaceae): preliminary results using anatomical characters 3:00 afternoon tea
E‐Floras
1:40 Jennifer Tate: Exploring the floral transcriptome of reciprocally formed Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae) allopolyploids 1:20 Rob Smissen: Baker's rule – best taken with a pinch of salt? NZ Flora
11:15 Miguel de Salas: How many taxa are there in the Ozothamnus ledifolius complex in Tasmania?
1:20 Helal Ansari: Molecular cytogenetic characterization of ribbonwood and lacebark in New Zealand Hybridization and Polyploidy
10:05 Jessie Prebble: The population genetics of rarity in New Zealand plants: a case study delimiting species in recent radiations using Myosotis (Boraginaceae) 10:25 morning tea
11:15 Elizabeth Kennedy: Late Cretaceous and Paleocene floral structures from Northwest Nelson, New Zealand
2:40 Frank Zich: Australian Savanna Plant Identification System: integrating existing bioinformatics tools to build an interactive identification and information system for all Australian savanna plants 3:00 afternoon tea
3:00 afternoon tea
3:30 Nanette Thomas: Molecular dating of Winteraceae reveals a complex biogeographical history involving both ancient Gondwanan vicariance and long‐
distance dispersal
3:30 Student awards, ASBS 2015 3:50 Patrick Brownsey: Re‐examining H.H. Allan's typifications in the Flora of New Zealand 3:50 Joanne Birch: Classical morphology, Sanger and Next‐Generation Sequencing to resolve relationships within a recent radiation: a case study focusing on Australian Poa (Poaceae)
4:30 close
4:10 Jeremy Rolfe: Biosystematics and Conservation – the conflict of either managing hypotheticals or facts 4:10 Finish
4:30 Bill Barker: The white paper on plant, fungal and algal systematics in Australasia: progress report, forum and call to arms 4:15 ASBS Annual General Meeting
4:50 Discussion
6:30 Conference dinner: Halikarnas
3:30 Jim Croft: Name‐calling: nomenclators, taxonomies and plant lists in a national flora Taxonomy
9:45 George Plunkett: Sticky Sword‐Sedge Systematics (Lepidosperma viscidum : Cyperaceae) Species limits
Paleobotany
10:05 Tammo Reichgelt: Extinction of Miocene broad‐
leaved Nothofagaceae in New Zealand
8:45 Plenary: Peter Weston
Problems and progress in plant systematics since Nancy Burbidge
Thursday, 27 November
Biogeography and phylogeny
9:45 Myall Tarran: Fossil Kania (Myrtaceae) leaves and fruits from Cenozoic SE Australia: Evidence for a Papuan vegetation connection and evidence from cuticular morphology for past rainfall regimes.
Wednesday. 26 November
Species limits
Tuesday, 25 November
8:30 Open conference
PVC Robert Anderson, Massey University
8:35 Welcome: Jennifer Tate, Chair of Organizing Committee
8:45 Plenary: Heidi Meudt
Next‐generation, integrative, collaborative systematics
Biogeography and Phylogeny
Plenary
ASBS 2014 Program of Presentations
5:10 Finish
5:15 Breakout session: The White Paper