Opisthobranch Symposium at WSM

June 19, 2001
From: Cynthia Trowbridge

Dear Bill,

I would appreciate it if you could please post this WSM Opisthobranch Symposium schedule as a message. The Western Society of Malacologists' symposium will be on Thurs. June 21st and Sat. June 23rd in San Diego, Calif. Last minute attendees are welcome ($25 for 1-day registration plus $20 late fee). Please contact me for details.

Thursday, 21 June
• 8:45am Introduction to the Annual Meeting, President Hans Bertsch
• 9:00 OPISTHOBRANCH SYMPOSIUM, FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF FRANK MACE MacFARLAND (comments by Angel Valdes)
• 9:10 Alan Grant, Nudibranchs in action
• 9:35 Hans Bertsch, A brief description of the life and scientific contributions of Dr. Frank Mace MacFarland (1869-1951)
• 10:00 Jeff Goddard, Patterns of larval development in opisthobranch molluscs from the northeastern Pacific Ocean
• 10:25 BREAK
• 10:50 James R. Lance, A survey of Panamic Sacoglossa
(Opisthobranchia: Gastropoda)
• 11:15 P.M. Johnson, Sea hare defensive secretions function differently against fish, crustacean, and cnidarian predators
• 12-1:30 LUNCH
• 1:30 Michael Ghiselin et al., Comparative and evolutionary aspects of the biosynthisis of defensive metabolites in the dorid nudibranch genera Dendrodoris and Doriopsilla
• 1:55 Orso Angulo and Hans Bertsch, Opisthobranch molluscs from Baja California Sur
• 2:20 Sandra Millen Seasonal occurrence patterns of opisthobranchs in the northeastern Pacific
• 2:45 BREAK
• 3:10 Mary Jane Adams, The secret lives of sea slugs
• 3:35 Orso Angulo and Juan Felix Elorduy, Preliminary results on temporal and spatial variations of the opisthobranch fauna near La Paz,
Baja California Sur, Mexico
• 4:00 Angel Valdes, Depth-related adaptations, speciation processes and evolution of color in the genus Phyllidiopsis
• 4:25 Yvonne Valles et al., Preliminary phylogenic and taxonomic revision of the genus Kaloplocamus Bergh, 1892

POSTER: Monica Medina et al., Gymnodorid nudibranchs from the eastern Pacific: a preliminary taxonomic revision of the genera Tambja, Roboastra, and Nembrotha

Friday, 22 June
• 4:30 Michael D. Miller, BEYOND THE TUB: An underwater slide presentation of various nudibranch behaviors noted in the May 2001 Philippines field trip

Saturday, 23 June
• 1:30 Cynthia D. Trowbridge, Emerging associations: evaluation of the "host-specificity paradigm" for sacoglossan opisthobranchs associated with introduced macroalgae
• 1:55 Rebecca Johnson, A preliminary phylogeny of the genus Cadlina (Mollusca: Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae)
• 2:20 Terrence M. Gosliner, The systematic status of MacFarland's genus Hopkinsia and its relationship to Okenia (Doridina: Goniodorididae)
• 2:45 BREAK
• 3:10 Elizabeth J. Walsh and Cynthia D. Trowbridge, Genetic variation in stenophagous sacoglossan herbivores on native vs. introduced algal hosts
• 3:35 Pat Krug, Developmental dimorphism in the specialist herbivore Alderia modesta: consequences for dispersal and larval settlement
behavior

EVENING: BANQUET, WITH SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
DR. PAUL DAYTON, SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY

Cordially,
Cynthia
WSM Treasurer

trowbric@ucs.orst.edu

Trowbridge, C., 2001 (Jun 19) Opisthobranch Symposium at WSM. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/4627

Dear Cynthia,
It looks very interesting. If any of the participants who would like to send short ilustrated summaries of their talks to the Forum for those who can't make it, they would be gratefully received.
Bill Rudman

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