July 6-10, 2017: Cali, Colombia
THURSDAY, JULY 6th
FRIDAY, JULY 7th
8:00am // Registration
9:00am // Welcoming. Alejandro Zuluaga
9:15 - 10:00 am // Opening Talk. A Review of the Studies with Araceae-Taxonomy and Ecology. Thomas Croat
10:00 - 10:20 am // Coffee Break
Morning session. MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
10:20 - 10:55 am // Opening Talk. Nuevos recursos genómicos para la reconstrucción de filogenias en el género Anthurium (Araceae). Monica Carlsen & Michael McKain
10:55 - 11:20 am // Systematic relationships and diversification of a giant genus from the Neotropics: a time-calibrated phylogeny for Philodendron Schott (Araceae). Dubán Canal, Nils Köster, Katy Jones, Nadja Korotkova, Thomas B. Croat & Thomas Borsch
11:20 - 11:45 am // A new aroid phylogeny using target sequencing. Alejandro Zuluaga, Alan Lemmon, Emily Lemmon & Ken Cameron.
11:45 am - 12:10 pm // Recent changes to the Alocasia-Colocasia clade. Peter C. Boyce
12:10 -1:40 pm // Lunch Break
Afternoon Session 1. FLORISTIC AND REVISIONARY STUDIES
1:40 - 2:15 pm // Opening Talk. Advances and challenges towards an aroid flora of Borneo. Wong Sin Yeng
2:15 - 2:40 pm // Species Diversity and Conservation Status of Araceae in Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest, Thailand. Duangchai Sookchaloem, Sutida Maneeanakekul, Manop Poopath, Tiwtawat Napiroon & Kanchit Srinoppawan.
2:40 - 3:05 pm // A Revision of the Araceae of Central America. Thomas Croat
3:05 - 3:25 pm // Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2. FLORISTIC AND REVISIONARY STUDIES
3:25 - 3:50 pm // TBD
3:50 - 4:15 pm // A Revision of Monstera for Central America. Thomas Croat
4:15 - 4:40 pm // The Araceae of Yasuní National Park, Napo Province, Ecuador. Genevieve Ferry
4:40 - 5:05 pm // Review of Xanthosoma from South and Central America. Xavier Delannay, Thomas B. Croat
5:05 - 5:30 pm // A Revision of Stenospermation of Central America. Thomas Croat
5:30 pm // End of the day
8:00 am // Coffee
Morning Session 1. HORTICULTURE AND COLLECTIONS
9:00 - 9:35 am // Overview of Araceae at Kew. Anna Haigh
9:35 - 10:00 am // Cultivation of native Colombian aroids at El Refugio nature reserve (Torremolinos nursery). Eduardo Calderón
10:00 - 10:25 am // Cultivation of Aroids in France-Managing a large aroid collection in a Temperate Environment. Genevieve Ferry
10:25 - 10:45 am // Coffee Break
Morning Session 2. HORTICULTURE AND COLLECTIONS
10:45 - 11:10 am // Anthurium breeding, a colorful challenge. Jan Van Dijk
11:10 - 11:35 am // Utilizing Aroids in Temperate Landscapes. Michael Kolaczewski
12:00 m - 1:30 pm // Lunch Break
Afternoon Session 1. FLORISTIC AND REVISIONARY STUDIES
1:30 - 2:05 pm // Using Lucid Keys in the Discovery of New Species. Thomas Croat
2:05 - 2:30 pm // Taxonomia e Ecologia de Heteropsis Kunth: um genero de Araceae Juss. de ambito económica. Maria de Lourdes da Costa Soares & Simon Joseph Mayo
2:30 - 2:55 pm // Stenospermation Schott (Araceae) de Colombia. Natalia Castaño
2:55 - 3:20 pm // A Taxonomic Revision on Genus Arisaema (Araceae: Aroideae: Arisaemateae) in China. Ma Zhengxu & Li Heng
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm // Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2. FLORISTIC AND REVISIONARY STUDIES
3:40 - 4:05 pm // Anthurium, una muy buena razón para conocer los bosques colombianos. William Vargas
4:05 - 4:30 pm //Advances toward a revision of the genus Monstera in Costa Rica. Marco Cedeño & Mario Blanco
4:30 - 6:00 pm // Poster session. Second Floor Biology Department
6:00 pm // End of the day
SATURDAY, JULY 8th
8:00am // Coffee
Morning Session 1. ECOLOGY. POLLINATION
8:40 - 9:25 am // Opening Talk. Studies in pollination ecology - New teams & advances. Marc Gibernau
9:25 - 9:50 am // Estructura genética, sistema de apareamiento y visitantes florales de dos especies de Anthurium de bosque de montaña. Sandra E. Cuartas, Deisy Moreno B, Maribel Herrera & León Hoyos
9:50 - 10:15 am // Pollination ecology of Syngonium. Florian Etl
10:15 - 10:35 am // Coffee Break
Morning Session 2. ECOLOGY. POLLINATION
10:35 - 11:00 am // Aroid floral scent chemistry and its association with pollinating insects. Artur Maia & Marc Gibernau
11:00 - 11:25 am // Generalists or specialists? - the pollination of Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum and Spathiphyllum ortgiesii (Araceae) in Mexico. Pedro Díaz
11:25 - 11:50 am // El rol que cumple el abundante número de visitante florales sobre dos especies de Anthurium en un fragmento de Bosque seco tropical de Colombia. Jorge Mario Ruiz, Leonardo Guevara-Ibarra & Alba Marina Torres
12:00 - 1:30 pm // Lunch Break
Afternoon Session 1. ECOLOGY.
1:30 - 1:55 pm // From forest floor to the canopy: Life history of secondary hemiepiphytes (Heteropsis species) in the Colombian Amazon. Maria Paula Balcazar
1:55 - 2:20 pm // Ciclo floral y estrategias de polinización de dos especies de los géneros Chlorospatha y Xanthosoma. Allison Muñoz, Camila Pizano & Alejandro Zuluaga
2:20 - 2:45 pm // Effects of fruit removal by vertebrates and seed germination in Dieffenbachia oerstedii (Araceae) in the rainforest of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz. Armando Aguirre, R. Coates & José. G. García
2:45 - 3:10 pm // Evaluación de los patrones de riqueza y endemismo de la familia Araceae a nivel altitudinal y latitudinal. Leonardo Guevara, Martín Llano, Allison Muñoz & Alejandro Zuluaga
3:10 - 3:30 pm // Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 2. ECOLOGY.
3:30 - 3:55 pm // Advances in studies of the pollination and reproductive biology of Monstera. Alfredo Cascante-Marín & Marco Cedeño-Fonseca
3:55 - 4:20 pm // Biología reproductiva de Montrichardia linifera (Arruda) Schott. en un bosque de galería en Casanare, Orinoquia de Colombia. Luis Nuñez & Artur Campos Maia.
4:20 - 4:45 pm // Diversity and natural history of insect trophic interactions in the infructescences of Monstera egregia in a mexican tropical rain forest. Vicente Hernández-Ortiz, Guadalupe Amancio, Armando Aguirre & José F. Dzul
4:45 - 5:10 pm // Avances, perspectivas y retos de los estudios sobre la ecología de la polinización en Araceae de Colombia. Luis Nuñez & Artur Campos Maia
5:10 pm // End of the day
7:00 pm // Banquet. UNIVERSIDAD ICESI
Schedule
Below you will find the preliminary program, and once we receive all your contributions we will post the final schedule.