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Friday
June 6th
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| 1:00 - 4:00 PM |
Registration:
Education Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM |
Executive Board
Meeting: Education Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County |
| 6:00 PM |
Reception:
Historic Rotunda of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, with welcome
from the President and Director Jane Pisano. |
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Saturday
June 7th
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| 9:00 - 12:00 Noon |
Ecology Symposium: Education
Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
| 9:00AM |
Introductory
remarks by Jeff Goddard, Symposium Organizer |
| 9:10 AM |
Japanese sacoglossan
opisthobranchs associated with Codium spp. (Chlorophyta) by
C. D. Trowbridge, Y. J. Hirano, & Y. M. Hirano |
| 9:30 AM |
Using trace
element concentrations in mytilid mussel shells to determine larval
sources by B. J. Becker, L. Levin, P. McMillan, & F. J. Fodrie |
| 9:50 AM |
Diet-specificity
in sponge-feeding nudibranchs from Cape Arago, Oregon by J. Goddard |
| 10:10 AM |
BREAK |
| 10:40 AM |
Where does
the escargot? Molluscan statoliths and protoconchs as natural tags
of natal origin by D. C. Zacherl |
| 11:00 AM |
Cryptic impacts
of invasive species: Parasites of sympatric native and introduced
snails by M. E. Torchin, J. E. Byers, & T. C. Huspeni |
| 11:20 AM |
Rock and coral
boring Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the middle Florida Keys, USA by P. Valentich-Scott
& G. E. Dinesen |
| 11:40 AM |
Restored marshes
with tidal pools in San Francisco estuary yield common, ancient gastropods,
other aquatic invertebrates, and their predatory fishes by C. L. Kitting
& C. L. Davis |
| 12:00 Noon |
LUNCH BREAK |
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| 1:30 - 5:30 PM |
General Session: Education
Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
| 1:30 PM |
Some non-marine
prosobranch families of Mollusca from Mexico by E. Naranjo-García |
| 1:50 PM |
Life history
traits and reproductive behavior in Ariolimax spp. (Arionidae:
Stylommatophora) by J. L. Leonard, E. Mendieta, & J. S. Pearse |
| 2:10 PM |
Comments on
malacological research in the Gulf of California, Mexico by H. Bertsch |
| 2:30 PM |
Biodiversity
and biogeography of upper slope and continental epifaunal molluscan
assemblages from the Caribbean Sea by N.E. Ardila |
| 2:50 PM |
Presence of
gigant polymorphic cells in Crassostrea gigas cultured in Bahía
Falsa, Baja California, NW México by R. Vásquez-Yeomans
& J. Cáceres-Martínez |
| 3:10 PM |
BREAK |
| 3:30 PM |
Reproductive
cycle of the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas cultured in
Bahía Falsa, Baja California, NW México by J. Cáceres-Martínez,
R. Vásquez-Yeomans, S.C.Curiel Ramírez, & P. M. Montes
de Oca |
| 3:50 PM |
Withering
syndrome in abalone from Baja California, México by J. Cáceres-Martínez |
| 4:10 PM |
Phenotypes
of the California mussel, Mytilus californianus Conrad (1837)
by M.A. del Río-Portilla, J. Cáceres-Martínez,
S. Curiel-Ramírez, & I.M. Gómez Humarán |
| 4:30 PM |
Recent cultured
Chinese fresh water pearls of various shapes please pearl buyers and
sellers in America by B. Burch |
| 4:50 PM |
To chew or
eschew-apophallation in Ariolimax as a result of sexual conflict?
by B. Miller |
| 5:10 PM |
Status report
on Shell-bearing Gastropoda of the northeastern Pacific by J.H. McLean |
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| 7:30-10:00 PM |
Reception and
shell exhibit: After dinner reception hosted by the Conchological Club
of Southern California/Pacific Shell Club will feature specimens collected
by several members |
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Sunday
June 8th
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| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Field trips |
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Paleontology/Land Snail Excursion:
This field trip will feature collecting Pleistocene marine fossils from
the Santa Barbara Formation and native and non-native land snails near
Rincon Pt. in Ventura County. Co-leaders: Lindsey T. Groves & Phil Liff-Grieff.
Tide pooling and visit to the
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium: Even though the morning tide (10:30AM) is moderately
low, it will provide a general view of the common organisms found in a
rocky intertidal area of southern California. After the tide, the group
will visit the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, which is an educational, recreational,
and research facility devoted to encouraging active public participation
and to promote knowledge and conservation of the marine life of southern
California. Leader: Ángel Valdés.
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Monday
June 9th
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| 9:00 - 12:00 Noon |
Paleontology Symposium :
Education Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
| 9:00 AM |
Introductory
remarks by Lindsey Groves, Symposium Organizer |
| 9:10 AM |
Volutoderminae
(Gastropoda, Volutidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Pacific slope
of North America by L.R. Saul & R. L. Squires |
| 9:30 AM |
Paleontologic
record of the pseudomelaniid gastropod Trajanella from the
marine Cretaceous of the Pacific slope of North America by R. L. Squires
& L. R. Saul |
| 9:50 AM |
New species
of Late Cretaceous cypraeids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California
and British Columbia by L. T. Groves |
| 10:10 AM |
BREAK |
| 10:40 AM |
Overview of
Late Cretaceous marine gastropods from the Chatsworth Formation, Simi
Hills, southern California by M. Stecheson |
| 11:00 AM |
Paleontology
of new middle Eocene faunas and floras from northern San Diego County,
southern California by G. L. Kenned, J. A. Myers, S.L. Walsh, & I.
D. Browne |
| 11:20 AM |
A new species
of Miocene Zonaria (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from
central Chile and its biogeographic significance by L. T. Groves &
S. N. Nielsen |
| 11:40 AM |
Paleontology
and geochronology of the middle and upper Pleistocene marine record
in the greater San Diego area, San Diego County, southern California
by G. L. Kennedy & I. D. Browne |
| 12:00 Noon |
LUNCH BREAK
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| 1:30 - 5:30 PM |
Opisthobranch Session:
Education Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
| 1:30 PM |
Introductory
remarks by Hans Bertsch |
| 1:40 PM |
The systematics
of Roboastra Bergh, 1877 (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae, Nembrothinae)
by M. Pola, J.L. Cervera, & T.M. Gosliner |
| 2:00 PM |
Bioeographic
patterns of opisthobranch mollusks in the Gulf of California: Dispersion
or vicariance? by O. Angulo Campillo |
| 2:20 PM |
Temporal and
spatial variations of the opisthobranch fauna near La Paz, Baja California
Sur, México by O. Angulo Campillo, J. Elorduy Garay, & H. Bertsch
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| 2:40 PM |
Phylogeny
of Halgerda (Mollusca: Gastropoda) contrasting mitochondrial
DNA (COI) and morphology by S. Fahey |
| 3:00 PM |
The nudibranch
family Eubranchidae from the eastern Pacific by S. Millen, M. Schrödl,
& A. Hermosillo-Gonzales |
| 3:20 PM |
BREAK |
| 3:40 PM |
The genus
Armina (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Arminidae) in the western
Atlantic: New species and a phylogenetic analysis by N. E. Ardila
& A. Valdés |
| 4:00 PM |
Reports from
the field: Bridging the gap between recreational scuba divers and
scientists by M. J. Adams |
| 4:20 PM |
Systematics
and phylogeny of the nudibranch genera Okenia and Hopkinsia
by T. M. Gosliner |
| 4:40 PM |
Toward a phylogeny
of chromodorid nudibranchs: Which questions can COI help answer? By
R.F. Johnson |
| 5:00 PM |
Preliminary
phylogeny of the genus Thordisa Bergh, 1877 (Discodorididae,
Doridacea, Nudibranchia) with descriptions of six new species by J.M.
Chan |
| 5:20 PM |
Slide show
by J. Allen |
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| 7:30 PM |
Auction and reprint
sale |
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Tuesday
June 10th
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| 9:00 - 12:00 noon |
Phylogenetics Symposium:
Education Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
| 9:00 AM |
Opening remarks
by Doug Eernisse, Symposium Organizer |
| 9:10 AM |
Genetic signatures
of patellogastropod dispersal by E. Begovic |
| 9:30 AM |
Comparative
phylogeography of two eastern Pacific eelgrass mollusks - Taylor's
seahare (Phyllaplysia taylori) and the painted limpet (Tectura
depicta) by K.D. Louie & D.K. Jacobs |
| 9:50 AM |
Host choice
and genetic divergence in sacoglossan populations by P.J. Krug |
| 10:10 AM |
BREAK |
| 10:30 AM |
So what is
a species anyway? - A phylogenetic approach using cowries by C.P.
Meyer |
| 10:50 AM |
Octopod molecular
phylogeny by C. Hudelot & F.G. Hochberg |
| 11:10 AM |
The role of
molecules in understanding molluscan evolution by M. Medina |
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| 12:00 Noon |
LUNCH BREAK |
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| 1:30 - 3:00 PM |
Poster session: Education
Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
| Beginnings of a new book
on the marine bivalve mollusks of tropical west America by E.V. Coan
& P. Valentich-Scott |
| The history of the Western
Society of Malacologists by J. Woolsey & B. Chaney |
| Shell-bearing Gastropoda
of the northeastern Pacific by J.H. McLean |
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| 4:00 - 5:00 PM |
Annual Business Meeting
and Group Photo: Education Classroom, Natural History Museum of Los
Angeles County
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| 7:00 PM |
Banquet:
Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California. Keynote speaker will be
John Heyning, Deputy Director of Research & Collections and Curator of Marine
Mammals, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. |
