The XXXIII Congress of 

the Willi Hennig Society 

Trento, Italy, from the 6th to the 10th of July 2014

Organizers: Massimo Bernardi, MUSE (massimo.bernardi@muse.it), Alessandro Minelli, University of Padova (alessandro.minelli@unipd.it), and Omar Rota-Stabelli, FEM (omar.rota@fmach.it).

WHO

The Willi Hennig Society promotes studies in Phylogenetic Systematics. When first expressed by Hennig in his works, the idea that only monophyletic groups of organisms, as evolutionarily entities, should be recognized and formally named, caused hot controversy but it is now established as the standard approach to modern systematics. The Society publishes Cladistics, one of the most prestigious international scientific journal dedicated to phylogenetic systematics.

WHAT

For the first time in its history the WHS organizes its annual congress in Italy. MUSE and the city of Trento are proud to host this important international event.

The program will be developed through a series of sessions and symposia during which various issues related to phylogenetic analysis will be addressed: from systematics to biogeography to macroevolutionary analysis of individual clades.

The congress will also give particular emphasis to the key topics of research in this field in Italy.

Participants will have the possibility to visit the exhibition halls of the new museum at any time during the congress. Visits or research in the museum’s collections will be possible following appointment (massimo.bernardi@muse.it).

WHERE

All scientific sessions will be held in the conference hall G. Canestrini of MUSE in Trento, NE Italy, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza, 3.

WHEN

The registration desk will open in the evening of July 6^th, when congress participants will be invited to a welcome party. The last session will be held on the 10th of July.

PROGRAM

The meeting will be structured in

three contributed sessions

Symposium 1. 
Time: Fossils and Phylogenetic Reconstruction

Symposium 2. 
Space: From Phylogeography to Vicariance Patterns

Symposium 3. 
Clades: Zooming on Selected Branches of the Tree of Life

and

three Workshops/thematic symposia:

Workshop 1. Heterochrony and phylogenetics

Organized by: Ronald Jenner and Alessandro Minelli

Speakers: J. Wiens, R. Jenner, C. Mitgutsch, D. Fontaneto, A. Minelli

Workshop 2. Phylogenetic reconstruction and patterns of genetic diversity in Amphibians and Reptiles

Organized by: Mark Wilkinson and Michele Menegon

Speakers: S. Ursenbacher, C. Liedtke, A. Bellati, M. Wilkinson, M. Menegon

Workshop 3. Clocks & Rocks: testing paleontological hypotheses in the genomic era

Organized by: Davide Pisani and Omar Rota-Stabelli

Speakers: J. Vinther, N. Longrich, D. Pisani, O. Rota-Stabelli

EXTENDED deadlines

Abstract submission EXTENDED deadline 16 May 2014 

Confirmation of abstract acceptance by the organization 6 June 2014 

Early registration fee’s deadline 13 June 2014 

Final program 20 June 2014

Please note that we will not be able to accept contributed presentations nor posters after the EXTENDED deadline of 16 May 2013

FOR MORE INFORMATION, TO REGISTER AND SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT

PLEASE VISIT www.cladistics.org/meetings.html

OR GO DIRECTLY TO THE CONGRESS WEBSITE AT http://www.muse.it/it/partecipa/Congressi-e-Convegni/archivio/XXXIII-Willi-Hennig-Society-meeting/Pagine/congresso-whs2013-home.aspx

DUE TO A SHORT BUT COMPLETE DOWN PHASE OF THE MUSEUM SERVER WE KINDLY ASK ALL PARTICIPANTS WHICH HAVE REGISTERED 

BEFORE APRIL 17th, TO CHECK THE STATUS OF THEIR REGISTRATION BY CONTACTING THE ORGANIZERS (massimo.bernardi@muse.it)