CPB Workshop:
Paleontology and its relevance to neontologists

Speakers:
Conrad Labandeira, Smithsonian
David Jacobs, UCLA
Todd Oakley, UC Santa Barbara
Geerat Vermeij, UC Davis

For this spring's CPB workshop, the students chose to focus on links between work in paleontology and neontology. Paleontology provides insights regarding long term processes or events in the past which have affected our current study systems, but many neontologists have insufficient knowledge of this material. Invited researchers in paleontology or who work at the boundary of neontology and paleontology will present talks on their work, will join in panel discussions on the relation between neontology and paleontology, and will be available for discussions. Talks will be from 10-11:30 each day; panel discussions from 4-5 pm on Wednesday and Friday (followed by mixers). All events will be in 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences (on the right in this map).

Tuesday, 10-11:30: Conrad Labandeira Data, hypotheses, and theory in the examination of fossil plant-insect interactions
Wednesday, 10-11:30: Geerat Vermeij Ecosystems of the past: development, controls, and keys to the future
Wednesday, 4-5: Ecology panel discussion
Thursday, 10-11:30: David Jacobs Integration of molecular, fossil and sediment records: discerning a Miocene radiation and interpreting phylogeography
Friday, 10-11:30: Todd Oakley How did evolution build eyes? A phylogenetic null model for the origins of novel complexity and biodiversity
Friday, 4-5: Evolution panel discussion