[HELICONIUS] Reply to Biology of Butterflies symposium request

[Jim Mallet]

Message received from Valerio Sbordoni, organizer of Biology of Butterflies 
Conference 2007.  Please let me have any comments very soon.  I'll be 
contacting the other symposium organizers to reduce overlap.

All the best, Jim Mallet

Message:

Dear Symposium Organizer,
with reference to the subject, please find herewith attached Prof.
Sbordoni's evaluation of the proposals received.

Best regards.

Renata Landotti
5th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies
The Secretariat



Rome, July 19th 2006

Dear Symposium Organizer,

after some initial problems with the date, the organization of the biology 
of butterflies conference seems to proceed successfully.

Thank you very much indeed for contributing with your proposal to the 
symposia organization.

Now that the call for symposia is closed, I wish to inform you that we have 
received nine proposals as listed below in order of arrival.

All these interesting draft proposals would be well worth to be accepted 
and included in the conference program. However we need to improve the 
programme by refining the organization of Symposia.

In order to do this, I would ask for your cooperation to manage any 
overlapping issue (e.g.: it seems that Symposia 2 and 4 overlap to some 
extent) or recurring speakers (highlighted in red).

A proposed final version of your symposium, including time scheduling of 
speakers, should be provided within the deadline of September 15th.

I thank you for your attention and wish you a happy butterfly season!

Best regards.

Valerio Sbordoni

Symposia
1.          Title:      Life histories: Ecology and evolution
Convenors:      Bas Zwaan, Klaus Fischer
Potential speakers:     Boggs C, Boomsma J, Nash D, Davidowitz G, Gotthard 
K, S. Nylin, Kingsolver JG, Tatar M, Thomas JA, Van Dyck H, Wedell N, Wiklund C


2.          Title:      Developmental Plasticity, Hormones and Evo-Devo
Convenors:      Paul Brakefield, Tony Frankino, Wade Hazel and Bas Zwaan
Potential speakers:     Tony Frankino, Cerisse Allen, Wade Hazel, Fred 
Nijhout, Bas Zwaan, Ron Rutowski, Klaus Fischer


3.          Title:      Ecology of parasitoids of butterflies
Convenors:      Saskya van Nouhuys, Constantí Stefanescu, Mark Shaw
Potential speakers:     John Stireman, Owen Lewis, Constantí Stefanescu, 
Saskya van Nouhuys, Konrad Fiedler, Christian Anton, Nina Fatouros, Jeff 
Harvey, Jeremy Thomas


4.          Title:      Evolution and development of colour patterns
Convenors:      Antónia Monteiro, Patrícia Beldade
Potential speakers:     Nipam Patel, Craig Brunetti, Fred Nijhout, Haruhiko 
Fujiwara, Paul Brakefield, Antónia Monteiro, Patrícia Beldade


5.          Title:      A symposium in honour of Lincoln Pierson Brower - 
To celebrate his 75th year, and mark more than 50 years research on 
milkweed butterflies
Convenors:      Karen Oberhauser, Michael Boppré Dick Vane-Wright
Potential speakers:     Karen Oberhauser, Steve Malcolm, Jane K Hill
The long list of Potential speakers, who could offer contributed papers, 
includes Michael Boppré, Andy Brower, Bill Calvert, Hugh Dingle, Linda 
Fink, David James, Michelle Solensky, Chip Taylor and Myron Zalucki


6.          Title:      Mimicry and Evolution of the Heliconiinae and 
Ithomiinae
Convenors:      James Mallet, Chris Jiggins, W. Owen McMillan
Potential speakers:     Ricardo Papa, W. Owen McMillan, Chris Jiggins, 
Robert Reed, Mathieu Joron, Gary Langham, Marcus Kronforst, Durrell Kapan, 
Lawrence E. Gilbert Jr., Mauricio Linares, Christan Salcedo, Jesús Mavárez, 
André Freitas, Kanchon Dasmahapatra, James 
Mallet 




7.          Title:      Mechanisms of speciation in butterflies
Convenors:      Marcus Kronforst, Jesus Mavarez, Chris Jiggins
Potential speakers:     Kronforst M, Mavarez J, Jiggins C, Kapan D, 
Lukhtanov VA, Gompert Z and others


8.          Title:      Title: Recent developments in the phylogeny of 
butterflies and their relatives
Convenors:      Naomi Pierce, Andrew Brower, André Victor Lucci Freitas, 
Paul Z. Goldstein, Felix Sperling, Niklas Wahlberg, Ward Watt
Potential speakers:     Overview:Christoph Häuser, Rienk de Jong, Niels 
Kristensen, Gerardo Lamas, J Minet, Dick Vane-Wright
         Hesperiidae:Rienk de Jong, Andrew Warren
         Papilionidae: Felix Sperling, Vazrick Nazari, Thomas J Simonsen, 
Evgueni Zakharov, Karina Lucas Silva-Brandao
         Pieridae: Ward Watt, Michael Braby, Chris Wheat, Osamu Yata
         Nymphalidae:Andrew Brower, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Niklas 
Wahlberg, Margarita Beltrán, Chris Jiggins, Ricardo Mallarino, Jim Mallet, 
Carla Penz, Alaine Whinnett, Keith Willmott
         Lycaenidae: Naomi Pierce, Zsolt Balint, Marcelo Duarte, Rod 
Eastwood, Alan Heath, Yu-Feng Hsu, Zofia A Kaliszewska, Nikolai 
Kandul,  Vladimir Lukhtanov, Tiago Quental, Robert Robbins, Roger Vila.
         Riodinidae: Mark Cornwall, Phil DeVries, Jason Hall, Don Harvey


9.          Title:      Ecology and Conservation of Large Blue Butterflies 
(Maculinea)
Convenors:      Piotr Nowicki, Josef Settele
Potential speakers:     Jeremy Thomas, Jacobus Boomsma, David Nash, Thomas 
Hovestadt  and others




James Mallet
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/