SUNDAY, 28th September

12.30 - c. 3.30 p.m. Software Demonstrations (Programme to be advised) (Ngapartji Cooperative Multimedia Centre, 211 Rundle Street).

4.00 - 6.00 p.m. Registration (Wills Refectory, Ground Floor, Union House).

6.00 - 8.00 p.m. Welcoming Reception (Equinox Room, Union Building).

MONDAY, 29th September

8.00 a.m. Registration desk opens in Wills Refectory, Ground Floor Union Building.

SOFTWARE IN SYSTEMATICS

8.40 a.m. Welcome by Bill Barker.

8.50 a.m. Launch by Tom Stubbs, Director, Resource Information Group, Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

9.00 a.m.	Alan Brooks	Specimen databases - What does the future hold?
9.40 a.m.	Jim Croft	Dealing with taxonomic and nomenclatural data

10.20 a.m. Morning tea

10.50 a.m.	Alex Chapman	[Taxon associated data: descriptive data, images]
11.30 a.m.	Tony Boston	Mapping and Modelling
12.10 p.m.	Kevin Jeans	Publishing systematics in a multi media future

12.40 p.m. Lunch

2.00 p.m.	Anne Hastings	Digital Technology and its role in biological imaging at CSIRO, Entomology
2.40 p.m.	Jim Croft	Bringing it all together: developing information systems

3.20 p.m. Afternoon tea

3.50 p.m.	Duncan Mackay	Statistical software
4.20 p.m.	David Morrison	Phylogenetic software

TUESDAY, 30th September

SYSTEMATICS: ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE AND CONSERVATION OF AUSTRALIA'S BIODIVERSITY

CONSERVATION AND SYSTEMATICS

9.20 a.m.	Nigel Stork	The role of systematics in ecology and conservation
10.00 a.m.	Andrew Beattie	Taxonomic partnerships in biodiversity assessment

Morning tea

11.10 a.m.	Rob Blakemore	The taxonomic status of the earthworm fauna from Lake Pedder, Western Tasmania World Heritage Area - a survey and report commissioned by the NPWS, April, 1996
11.30 a.m.	Neil Snow and Gordon Guymer	Conservation and systematics of Lithomyrtus F.Muell. and Myrtella F. Muell. s.s. (Myrtaceae)
11.50 a.m.	Winston Ponder	Small-scale speciation and conservation strategies
12.10 p.m.	Laurie Haegi	Sustaining biological diversity: reciprocal priorities for conservation and systematics

11.10 a.m.	Thomas Jacobs	Systematics and conservation status of macrophytes of South Africa
11.30 a.m.	David Orlovich, Andrew Drinnan and Pauline Ladiges	Patterns of flower development in the Myrtaceae
11.50 a.m.	Regina Teo	Systematics of the Criocerinae
12.10 p.m.	Shaun Winterton and David Yeates	Insights into a diverse but poorly known continental fauna: Systematic studies on Australian Therevidae

Lunch

2.00 p.m.	Dan Faith	Phylogenetic diversity and conservation evaluation
2.40 p.m.	Peter Cranston	What's in a species? Are higher taxa and other composites surrogates for any useful measures?

Afternoon tea

WEDNESDAY, 1st October

BIOGEOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN TEMPERATE AUSTRALIA

8.40 a.m.	Neville Alley, Brian McGowran and Bob Bourman	Changing southern Australian environment since the Late Cretaceous: geology, geomorphology, palaeoclimates and palaeofloras
9.20 a.m.	Bob Hill and Leonie Scriven	Cenozoic climate change and biogeography in south-eastern Australia
9.40 a.m.	Pauline Ladiges	Phytogeography of continental Australia: west-east area relationships across the southern zone
10.20 a.m.	Dan Bickel	Tramps and stowaways from Southern Australia: Biogeographic processes in a world of easy transport

Morning tea - Including the launch of Cheryl Grgurinovic's Larger Fungi of South Australia (time to be confirmed)

11.10 a.m.	David Greenwood, Anthony Vadala and Jack Douglas	Victorian Tertiary macrofloras: a conspectus
11.30 a.m.	Andrew Rowett	The Tertiary silcrete floras of Stuart Creek
11.50 a.m.	Richard Barnes and Bob Hill	Phylogeny, fossils and biogeography of Cunoniaceae
12.10 p.m.	Peter Hudson	Biogeography of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of normally dry salt lakes in Australia

11.10 a.m.	Neil Snow	Application of the phylogenetic species concept: a case study with Leptochloa P. Beauv. sensu lato (Poaceae, Chloridoideae)
11.30 a.m.	Mervi Hjelmroos, Jones and Tovey	Differentiation of fresh, airborne pollen grains by image analysis
11.50 a.m.	Duncan Mackay and Molly Whalen	Variation in seed characteristics of some ant-dispersed Australian Euphorbs
12.10 p.m.	Philip Groom and Byron Lamont	Fire response influences biogeography of Banksia and Hakea (Proteaceae) species in southwestern Australia

Lunch

2.00 p.m.	Richard Schodde and Ian Mason	The Geography of Speciation in the bird fauna of Bassian Australia
2.40 p.m.	Mark Harvey and Peter Cranston	Accidental occidentals?: East-west faunal connections in temperate Australia

Afternoon tea

3.50 p.m.	Russ Shiel and Stuart Halse	Regionalism in the aquatic microfauna of southern Australia
4.10 p.m.	Karen Gowlett-Holmes and J.Koslow	The seamount fauna south of Tasmania.

CONFERENCE DINNER

THURSDAY 2nd October

ECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS

8.40 a.m.	Peter Linder	Case studies in adaptations in the Cape Flora, South Africa
9.20 a.m.	Greg Rouse	Trochophore no more? Downstream feeding, ciliary bands, and evolution of larvae in annelids and other phyla
10.00 a.m.	David Patterson and Alastair Simpson	On the endemism of free-living flagellates in Australia
10.20 a.m.	Jenny Chappill	Systematics of Jacksonia (Leguminosae)

Morning tea

11.10 a.m.	Andy Austin and P. Dangerfield	The phylogeny of Parasitic Wasps - the Basis for interpreting Major Biological Events and Host Relationships
11.30 a.m.	Chris Lambkin	Characters, Congruence and Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
11.50 a.m.	Jeff Skevington and D.Yeates	Relationships of the Syrphoidea (Diptera) and a preliminary look at the systematics of the Australian Neodorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae)
12.10 p.m.	Penny Greenslade	Biogeography and ecology of the Gondwanan genus Setanodosa (Collembola: Brachystomellidae)

11.10 a.m.	Linda Broadhurst, David Coates and M.Tan	Geleznowia verrucosa Turcz. (Rutaceae) - A Monotypic Genus ?
11.30 a.m.	Des Foley, J.Bryan, D.Yeates and A.Saul	Evolution and systematics of Anopheles: insights from a molecular phylogeny of Australasian mosquitoes
11.50 a.m.	Kitty Vijverberg and K Bachman	Adaptive radiation of Microseris (Asteraceae) in Australia and New Zealand
12.10 p.m.	John Macdonald, M.Gillings and M.Holley	Use of DNA fingerprinting in systematic studies on mites (Acarina) of agricultural importance

Lunch

2.00 p.m.	Michelle Waycott	Marine angiosperm reproductive characters and evolution: extremities of convergence
2.40 p.m.	Michael Crisp	What can hybrids tell us about phylogeny in plants?

Afternoon tea

3.50 p.m.	Colin Bower	Defining Cryptic Species of Sexually Deceptive Orchids (Orchidaceae:Caladeniinae) using the Biological Species Concept
4.10 p.m.	Remko Leijs	Mating strategies and speciation rate in large carpenter bees (Xylocopa)

4.30 p.m.

POSTER SESSION

FRIDAY 3rd October

MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS

8.40 a.m.	Peter Lockhart and David Penny	New Problems and New Opportunities with Sequence Data
9.20 a.m.	David Morrison	After Tree-Building: Assessing and Comparing Phylogenetic Trees
10.00 a.m.	Lesley Rawlings and Steve Donnellan	Snake tales: comparative phylogeography of snakes of Papua New Guinea
10.20 a.m.	Ian Thompson, Pauline Ladiges and Jim Ross	Systematics of Hovea (Fabaceae)

Morning tea

11.10 a.m.	Steve Donnellan and P. Monis	Molecular systematics of the Australo-Papuan Hylid frogs
11.30 a.m.	Scott Keogh	Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the venomous Australo-Papuan elapid snakes
11.50 a.m.	Mark Dowton and Andy Austin	16S rDNA sequence data suggests a novel evolutionary transition from endoparasitism to ectoparasitism in the Braconid (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) wasps
12.10 p.m.	Mike Crisp and Simon Gilmore	A phylogenetic analysis of nuclear ribosomal intergene spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) in the Australian legume tribes Mirbelieae and Bossiaeeae

11.10 a.m.	Michael Braby	The Australian endemic genus Nesolycaena (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
11.30 a.m.	Eric Matthews	Systematics of the Criocerinae
11.50 a.m.	Lisa Schimanski and Bob Hill	Reconstructing past distributions of Grevilleoideae (Proteaceae) based on leaf morphology
12.10 p.m.	Anthony Vadala and Andrew Drinnan	Late Paleocene Banksieaephyllum praefastigatum: Proteaceae, or a possible enigma in the past flora of Australia?

Lunch

2.00 p.m.	John Trueman	Molecules: Clocks or Parasites?
2.40 p.m.	John Conran, P. Martin, J.Dowd, C.Quinn, P.Gadek and R.Price	The relationships of the Gymnosperm genera Lagarostrobos, Manoao (Podocarpaceae) and Phyllocladus (Phyllocladaceae) based on an analysis of the CP gene rbcL
3.00 p.m.	Fiona Benyon, L. Burgess and P.Sharp	Molecular genetic variation and taxonomy of Fusarium species in sections Discolor and Roseum

Afternoon tea

3.50 p.m.	Randy Bayer and J. Starr	A tribal phylogeny of the Asteraceae based on two non-coding chloroplast sequences, the trnL intron and trnL/trnF intergenic spacer
4.10 p.m.	Chris Austin	Phylogenetic Relationships of Boid Snakes and Population Structure of Pacific Boas

POSTER SESSION

Austin, A.D and P.C. Dangerfield.

Studies on the Systematics of Parasitic Wasps used in Biological Control.

Bayly, M. J., Brownsey, P. J., Garnock-Jones, P. J., Markham, K. R., Mitchell, K. A. and Malcolm, W. M.

Biosystematics of Hebe (Scrophulariaceae): a multidisciplinary approach

Blakemore, R.J.

First authenticated record of the introduced Lumbricus terrestris in Australia

Carrucan A.E.

Floral development and evolution in the Chamelaucium group (Myrtaceae).

Cayzer, L. W., Crisp. M. D. and Telford, I.R.

The new genus Auranticarpa (Pittosporaceae).

Chandler, G.T. and Crisp, M.D.

Discovery of Daviesia sejugata, a new species from South Australia and Tasmania, and revision of the Daviesia ulicifolia species complex.

Dangerfield, P.C. and A.D.Austin.

Systematics of Australian Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), parisitoids of acridid eggs.

Dobson, S. J. and S. C. Barker.

Phylogeny of Australian Hard Ticks.

Flann, Christina.

Bracteantha palustris (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), a new species in Victoria and Tasmania.

Grayling, Peter, M.

Taxonomic Revision of Eucalyptus series Loxophlebae using morphometric and essential oil data.

Henwood M.J. and A. Van den Borre.

Phylogeny of Apiales.

Heyligers, Petrus C.

Gaps - True or False?

Iqbal, M. and A.D.Austin.

Phylogeny of the Baeine Wasps (Scelionidae, Hymenoptera): parisitoids of spider eggs.

Jennings, J.T. and A.D.Austin.

Phylogeny of the hyptiogastrine wasps (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae), predator-inquilines of solitary bees.

Jones, Rodney H., N. Prakash and Jeremy J. Bruhl.

Systematic Studies in Acacia subgenus Phyllodineae (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae).

Loussert, Nathalie, Stephen G. Reyes and Michael P. Schwarz.

Phylogeny and social evolution in the endemic Australian allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

Macaranas, J.M., D.J. Colgan, R. E. Major, G. Cassis and M. R. Gray.

Microsatellite Variation in the Carpenter Ant and Its Potential Use In Investigating the Effects of Habitat Fragmentation.

Morris, David, Laurence Mound, and Michael Schwarz.

Cladistic analyses of Acacia gall-inducing thrips and their allies.

Murphy D.J.

Geographic variation in Acacia verniciflua and its relationship to A. leprosa and A. ausfeldii (Mimosaceae).

Raulings, Elisa J.

Morphometric, genetic and pollination ecology studies of the Stylidium graminifolium species complex.

Rowett A.I.

Fossil Leaf types from Stuart Creek.

Scarr, Mark and David R. Greenwood.

The sensitivity of leaf morphology to environmental factors in the rainforest-wet sclerophyll tree, Hedycarya angustifolia (Monimiaceae).

Steart, David C., David R. Greenwood and Paul I. Boon.

The causes and implications of floristic taphonomic bias in the fossil record.

Thampapillai, Gowrie.

Molecular Phylogeny of Arthropods based on Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase 1 Gene tree.

Tudge, Christopher.

Spermatological Phylogeny of the Anomuran Crabs (Decapoda:Crustacea).

Volschenk, E.S.

Systematics and Biogeography of the Australian scorpions within the genus Lychas C. L. Koch (Scorpiones; Buthidae).

WEDNESDAY, 1st October

MYCOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

8.40 a.m.	Dr David Moore, President of the British Mycological Society, University of Manchester, U.K.	Dynamic functional morphology in mushrooms - how mushrooms make mushrooms
9.40 a.m.	Dr Peter McGee, School of Biological Sciences, Sydney University	Problems with taxonomy of Glomus (Glomales: Zygomycota)
10.20 a.m.	Mr Graham Bell, Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia, Adelaide	Fungal collections in South Australia - where are they now?

Morning tea - Including launch of C. A. Grgurinovic's Larger Fungi of South Australia (time to be confirmed)

11.10 a.m.	Ms Ceri Pearce, Dr Kevin Hyde, and Dr P. Reddell, Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Hong Kong, and Tropical Forest Research Centre, Atherton	Preliminary studies on the Australian Phyllachoraceae (Fungi: Ascomycota)
11.50 a.m.	Dr Peter Johnstone, Landcare Research, Auckland, NZ	Biogeographic relationships of Southern Hemisphere Rhytismataceae

Lunch

2.00 p.m.	Ms F. H. L. Benyon, A. S. Jones and E. R. Tovey, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, University of Sydney.	Image analysis differentiates spores of allergenic fungal genera and species.
2.40 p.m.	Ms Sally Fryar, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide	Relative competitive ability of homokaryons and heterokaryons

Afternoon tea

3.50 p.m.	Dr A. Suzuki, Dr I. C. Tommerup and Dr N. Bougher, Chiba University, Japan and CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, Perth	Ammonia fungi in the jarrah forest of Western Australia and parellism with other geographic regions of the world
4.30 p.m.	Dr Tom May, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne	The distribution of species and communities of Australian fungi

British Mycological Society President's Reception

7.00 p.m.

CONFERENCE DINNER

MYCOLOGY POSTER SESSION

Bougher, N. L. and Tommerup, I. C.

Mycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi of remnant woodlands in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

Bougher, N. L., Wills, R. T. and Tommerup, I. C.

Urban bushland fungi at Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth, Western Ausralia.

Buchanan, P. K. and Ryvarden, L.

Revision of New Zealand polypore fungi.

Glen, M., Bolsenbroek, S. Q., Tommerup, I. C., Bougher, N. L. and O'Brien, P. A.

Congruence between molecular and morphological characters in three Australian species of Russula.

Johnston, P. R. and P. K. Buchanan.

Fungal invaders.

Lebel, T. and Castellano, M.

The diversity and abundance of sequestrate Russulaceae of Australia and New Zealand.

Lebel, T., Castellano, M. A. and Trappe, J.

Cladistic analysis of the sequestrate Russulales using morphological characters.

Savocchia, S., Stummer, B. E., Whisson, D. L., Wicks, T. J. and Scott, E. S.

DMI fungicide resistance in Uncinula necatorin Australian vineyards: detection and development of new tools.

Scheper, R. W. A., Crane, D. C., Scott, E. S., Whisson, D. L. and Stummer, B. E.

Molecular and phenotypic characterisation of Phomopsis viticola in Australian vineyards.