Curriculum Vitae John J. Wiens - Stony Brook University

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(15) “A phylogenetic perspective on global biodiversity patterns” Symposim
entitled “Phylogeny and biodiversity science” held at the “First
DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference: Integrating biodiversity for
human well-being” in Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2005 (with Michael
Donoghue).
(16) “Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in
amphibians” American Society of Naturalist’s Vice Presidential
Symposium entitled “Merging ecological and evolutionary approaches
to interpreting geographic gradients in species richness.” June 24, 2006,
Stony Brook, New York
(17) “Molecules, morphology, and species delimitation” Introduction for
symposium entitled “Species delimitation: new approaches for
discovering diversity” sponsored by the Society of Systematic Biologists.
June 23, 2006, Stony Brook, New York.
(18) “Paleontology, genomics, and combined-data phylogenetics: can molecular
data improve phylogeny estimation for fossil taxa?” Symposium entitled
“Bringing together the living and dead: integrating extant and fossil
biodiversity in evolutionary studies” sponsored by the Botanical Society
of America. August 1, 2006, Chico, California.
(19) “Combining phylogenies and GIS-based methods to study evolutionary
and ecological patterns” symposium “Evoluionary biology in the 21st
Century–tracing patterns of evolution through the Tree of Life”
sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, and DIVERSITAS. June 6, 2007, Beijing
China.
(20) “Using GIS and biogeographic data to help understand character
evolution” colloquium “Integration of spatial and ecological data in
evolutionary studies” sponsored by the Botanical Society of America,
July 11, 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
(21) “Empowering herpetological phylogenetics with genomic resources”
symposium “Herpetology in the age of genomics“ sponsored by the
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. July 13, 2007, Saint
Louis, Missouri.
(22) “Why are there so many species of tropical bolitoglossine salamanders?”
Symposium honoring David Wake at Fifth Conference on Biology of
Plethodontid Salamanders, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico, August
4, 2007.
(23) “Global biodiversity patterns: evolutionary and ecological causes” Buffon
International Symposium “Natural history museums and institutions in
the 21 st century.” October 18, 2007, Paris, France.