The fifth international Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference

Stockholm, Sweden, September 6–10, 2010.

The Bergius Foundation hosted the fifth International Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference, which was held September 6–10, 2010 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. The complete program, also including submitted abstracts and the list of participants, can be downloaded as a pdf-file from here

Programme

Monday September 6th

08.00 Registration, mounting of posters and coffee
09.30 Opening ceremony –– Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Kåre Bremer, Vice Chancellor, Stockholm University

Progress in phylogeny I (Chair: Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison)

10.00 Charlotte M. Taylor –– Keynote lecture: Rubiaceae Systematics and Morphological Characters: An Emerging New Understanding
11.00 Tatyana Livshultz –– Phylogeny of the "rest" of Gentianales (Excluding Rubiaceae): What Can We Conclude From Currently Available Data?
11.30 Sigrid Liede-Schumann –– Subfamily Asclepiadoideae: Radiations in the New World
12.00 Lunch

Progress in phylogeny II (Chair: Mary E. Endress)

13.30 Timothy J. Motley –– Increased Resolution of Generic Relationships Within Chiococceae s. lat. Inferred Using Combined nrDNA and cpDNA
14.00 Åsa Krüger –– A Phylogenetic Study On the Madagascar–centered Tribe Danaideae
14.30 Coffee
15.00 Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison –– Searching For the Phylogenetic Positions of the Enigmatic Glionnetia, Jackiopsis, and Trailliaedoxa in the Coffee Family
15.30 Helga Ochoterena –– A Cladistic Analysis of the Genus Didymaea Hook. f. (Rubiaceae) Using Morphological Characters
16.00 Livia Wanntorp –– Tracking the Diversification of the Indomalesian Region: Phylogenetic Relationships in the Species-rich Genus Hoya (Marsdenieae, Apocynaceae)
16.30 Alessandro Rapini –– Evidence of Rapid Diversification in Metastelmatinae (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae)
18.00 Reception at "Spökslottet", Drottninggatan 116, Stockholm

Tuesday September 7th

Progress in phylogeny III (Chair: Lena Struwe)

09.00 Elmar Robbrecht –– Taxonomic Problems in the Rubiaceae: What Have We Learned From Molecular Phylogenies?
09.30 Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison –– Implications of a Molecular Phylogeny of the Malagasy–Mascarene Genus Bremeria (Rubiaceae, Ixoroideae, Mussaendeae)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 André O. Simões –– Systematics and Biogeography of the Large Pantropical Tabernaemontaneae–Vinceae–Willughbeieae Clade (Apocynaceae, Rauvolfioidae)
11.00 Timothy J. Motley –– Phylogeny of Asian-pacific Shrubby Hedyotis L. (Spermacoceae) and Preliminary Evaluations of Biogeographic Patterns, Insular Woodiness, and Fruit Evolution
11.30 Perla Hamon –– New Technologies For Molecular Phylogenies and Classification. How Extending Coffea Studies Can Facilitate Advances in Rubiaceae Knowledge?
12.00 Lunch

Character Evolution (Chair: Mary E. Endress)

13.30 Inge Groeninckx –– Corolla Slits in the Subfamily Rubioideae
14.00 Kent Kainulainen –– Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses and Morphological Character Evolution of the Condamineeae (Ixoroideae, Rubiaceae)
14.30 Coffee
15.00 Dorismilda Martínez-Cabrera –– Is the Lineolate Venation Homologous in Rubiaceae?
15.30 Victoria Ferrero –– The Evolution of Heterostyly and Fleshy Fruits in the Spermacoceae Alliance (Rubiaceae)
16.00 Brecht Verstraete –– Bacterial Leaf Endosymbiosis in South African Rubiaceae
16.30 Alix Amaya-Worm –– Leaf Anatomical Characterization of the Genus Malanea Aubl. (Guettardeae: Rubiaceae)

Wednesday September 8th

Biogeography I (Chair: Birgitta Bremer)

09.00 Fredrik Ronquist –– Keynote lecture: Historical Biogeography Methods: From Event-based Parsimony to Statistical Inference
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Jenny E. E. Smedmark –– Divergence Time Uncertainty and Historical Biogeography Reconstruction – an Example From Urophylleae (Rubiaceae)
11.00 Niklas Wikström –– Historical Biogeography of the Coffee Family (Rubiaceae, Gentianales) in Madagascar: Case Studies From the Tribes Knoxieae, Naucleeae, Paederieae and Vanguerieae
11.30 Inge Groeninckx –– Spermacoceae On Madagascar: Origin, Evolution and Morphological Diversity
12.00 Lunch

Biogeography II (Chair: Aaron Davis)

13.30 Lena Struwe –– Keynote lecture: Tracking Evolutionary Clades Across the Space-time-environmental Continuum, With an Example From Neotropical Gentianaceae
14.30 Coffee
15.00 Ulrika Manns –– The Biogeographical Origin of Cinchonoideae s. str. (Rubiaceae)
15.30 Piero G. Delprete –– Distribution and Biodiversity of Rubiaceae in the States of Goiás and Tocantins and the Federal District, Central Brazil
16.00 Kenneth L. Parker –– Phylogeny of Kadua: Origins, Biogeography, and Phylogenetic Dating
16.30 Aaron P. Davis –– Predictive Modelling and Ecological Niche Modelling For Coffea

Thursday September 9th

Biodiversity, taxonomy and species richness I (Chair: Elmar Robbrecht)

10.00 Laure Barrabé –– New Caledonian Psychotria (Rubiaceae): Origin, Diversification, and Implications For Delimitations Within Psychotrieae
10.30 Olivier Lachenaud –– The Genus Psychotria L. (Rubiaceae) in West and Central Africa
11.00 Charlotte M. Taylor –– The Genus Carapichea (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae)
11.30 Maria R. V. Barbosa –– List of Rubiaceae in Brazil
12.00 Lunch

Biodiversity, taxonomy and species richness II (Chair: Charlotte Taylor)

13.30 Franck Rakotonasolo –– The Rubiaceae of Madagascar: Progress and Prospects
14.00 Joan T. Pereira –– New Insights and Continuing Clarification of the Rothmannia Complex
14.30 Coffee
15.00 Alix Amaya-Worm –– The Genus Malanea Aubl. (Guettardeae: Rubiaceae) in the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana)
15.30 Attila Borhidi –– Neomartensia (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae): Género Nuevo De Mexico
16.00 Grecebio J. D. Alejandro –– Tribal Affiliations of the Philippine Endemic Greeniopsis Merr. and Villaria Rolfe (Rubiaceae)
16.30 Steven Dessein –– Progress in the Revision of the Central and West African Vanguerieae With a Molecular Study of Cuviera and Vangueriella
17.00 Closing remarks

Friday September 10th

09.00 Visit to Uppsala and the Linnaeus summer house, garden and home

A bus will take us from the Academy on Friday morning at 9.00 am. At the Linnaeus Hammarby Dr. Karin Martinsson will guide us in the building and we will also have a possibility to stroll around in the park, where we will have our lunch. Later we will go to the centre of Uppsala to see the Linnaeus botanical garden which is arranged according to his sexual system. The bus will leave Uppsala 15.00 and hopefully we will be back to the Academy 16.00 pm (in case anyone needs to be back earlier there are regular trains every 30 minutes to Stockholm)