Invited Speakers:
Symposium I: Innovations in analyses of molecular and morphological data
Another view of sequence evolution Resolving phylogenetic relationships using EST- based data: opportunities, challenges, applications
Models for genome-scale data sets The Tree of Life is not a tree: on the use of network models in phylogenetics
Bias in phylogenetic reconstruction and the structure of real and simulated sequence data
Supertree methods for Deep Phylogeny
Symposium II: Molecular phylogeny: new markers and phylogenomic analyses
Genomic novelty in the Metazoa:
next generation sequencing and
the genomic complexity of the ur-metazoan
A short history of phylogenomics
What is different about using randomly
sequenced genes to infer phylogenies?
Genomics and the Tree of Life
Evolution of segmentation -
What can new molecular-phylogenetic data
of annelids teach us?
Evolution and phylogeny of early branching metazoans
Symposium III: The indispensability of morphology
Evolution of lophotrochozoan photoreceptors
Introduction to the Symposium:
The indispensability of morphology
Embryonic development of early fossil metazoans The role of morphological data
in the analysis of protostome phylogeny
Evolutionary changes in the architecture
of invertebrate nervous systems
Cleavage, gastrulation and metazoan evolution
Myogenesis and the evolution of bodyplan diversity in Lophotrochozoa
Public Lecture
The significance of fossils  in evolutionary research 150 years after Darwins "On the origin of species"