| Monday August 17, 2015 |
Tuesday August 18, 2015 |
Wednesday August 19, 2015 |
Thursday August 20, 2015 |
Friday August 21, 2015 |
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| 7:30 – 8:30 | Pre-conference Workshops | Breakfast Creelman Hall |
Breakfast Creelman Hall |
Breakfast Creelman Hall |
Breakfast Creelman Hall |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | BOLD | Protocols for Next-Generation Sequencing | Opening Welcome Malcolm Campbell Executive Secretary Dias |
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| 9:00 – 10:30 | Biodiversity and Ecosystems Paul Hebert Yves Basset Tetsukazu Yahara |
Ecological Interactions Charles Godfray Naomi Pierce Jana Vamosi |
Bioinformatics David Posada Sujeevan Ratnasingham Derek Tittensor |
Conservation Nancy Knowlton Eduardo Eizirik Louis Bernatchez |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Eco-evolutionary Dynamics Rosemary Gillespie Melania Cristescu Thibaud Decaëns |
Ecological and Environmental Genomics Mark Blaxter Michael Hofreiter Mehrdad Hajibabaei |
Taxonomy and Systematics Rod Page John La Salle Karl Kjer |
Global Initiatives John Kress Wolfgang Wägele Peter Hollingsworth |
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| 12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch (self-organized lunch on campus, e.g. UC) |
Lunch Creelman Hall |
Lunch Creelman Hall |
Lunch Creelman Hall |
Lunch Creelman Hall |
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| 2:00 – 3:30 | Formation of the International Society for the Barcode of Life David Castle (Co-chair) Peter Hollingsworth (Co-chair) Robert Hanner Peter Kevan De-Zhu Li |
Parallel Session 1 | Parallel Session 3 | Parallel Session 4 | Parallel Session 6 | |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Coffee Break | Poster Session Science Complex (Refreshments provided) |
Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 – 5:30 | Parallel Session 2 | Parallel Session 5 | Final Plenary War Memorial Hall Laurence Packer (Chair) Student Awards Exploring Life on Earth Tom Lovejoy Reflections on Barcoding Dan Janzen Closing Remarks Paul Hebert |
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| 6:30 – 8:30 | Welcoming Reception Science Complex (Refreshments provided) Opening Welcome |
BBQ Dinner Creelman Hall Post-Dinner Social |
Special Plenary Session: State of Biodiversity River Run Centre Brock Fenton (Chair) |
Gala Reception Cambridge Mill |
Self-organized evening in Guelph | |