Program:

October 07

18:00 Welcome and opening of symposium by Dietmar Zinner and Christian Roos

Addresses from the Director of the DPZ, Prof. Stefan Treue

18:30 Public lecture by Prof. Michael L. Arnold: Why the web of life, and not the tree of life?

Lecture Hall, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Universität Göttingen

October 08

Venue: conference hall at Eden-Hotel Göttingen

8:30 Dietmar Zinner: Why a symposium on hybridization in primates?

Chair: Dietmar Zinner

9:00 Ole Seehausen: Hybridization and adaptive radiation - what have we learned in the past 5 years

9:45 Rémy J Petit: Delimiting species in the face of hybridization and introgression

10:30 Morning coffee break

Chair: Christian Roos

11:00 Yves Rumpler: Reticulated evolution on chromosome level in Malagassy lemurs

11:45 Mark Gligor: Hybridization between mouse lemurs in an ecological transition zone in southern Madagascar

12:30 Lunch

Chair: Kate M. Detwiler

14:00 Anne D. Yoder: Patterns of cryptic speciation in mouse lemurs: Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they are not there

14:45 David W. Weisrock: A species tree for the mouse lemurs? Concordance-based phylogenetics using multiple nuclear loci

15:30 Afternoon coffee break

Chair: Linda Vigilant

16:00 Dorit Liebers-Helbig: Introgressive hybridization and nonconcordant evolutionary history of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in the herring gull complex

16:45 Glenn-Peter Sætre: Hybridization and reinforcement in flycatcher hyrid zones

17:30 Kevin E. Omland: Gene tree polyphyly in birds and primates: Distinguishing incomplete sorting from recent hybridization

18:15 General Discussion

October 09

Chair: Rebecca R. Ackermann

8:30 Thomas T. Struhsaker: An historical overview of hybridization among Cercopithecus monkeys with speculation on why and how it happens

9:15 Kate M. Detwiler: Cercopithecus mitis x C. ascanius hybridization in Gombe National Park, Tanzania

10:00 Morning coffee break

Chair: Chris D. Jiggins

10:30 Anthony J. Tosi: Comparison of mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal patterns reveals episodes of reticulate evolution in the genus Macaca

11:15 Christina Keller: Introgressive hybridization in southern African baboons shapes patterns of mtDNA variation

12:00 Andrew S. Burrell: Genetic studies of three baboon hybrid zones in Zambia

12:45 Lunch

Chair: David W. Weisrock

14:15 Jenny Tung: Before and after the swarm: behavioral, genetic, and life history implications of hybridization in wild baboons

15:00 Jane E. Phillips-Conroy: Hybridization in the Awash baboons: Perspectives from studies of behavior, genetics, morphology and physiology

15:45 Afternoon coffee break

Chair: Colin P. Goves

16:15 Clifford J. Jolly: A typology of primate hybridization, as exemplified by the African papionin monkeys

17:00 Axel Meyer: Why did so many species of swordtail fishes (Teleostei: Xiphophorus) originate by hybridization?

17:45 General Discussion

October 10

Chair: Christina Keller

8:30 Colin P. Groves: Dividing the hoof and chewing the cud, but still not kosher: Hybridisation and hybrid species in ruminants

9:15 Rebecca R. Ackermann: Effects of hybridization on the craniofacial skeleton of primates and other mammals: Implications for interpreting extant and extinct diversity

10:00 Morning coffee break

Chair: Anthony J. Tosi

10:30 Chris D. Jiggins: Adaptive introgression and hybrid trait speciation in butterflies

11:15 Daniel Garrigan: A general coalescent-based model of speciation

12:00 Liliana Cortés-Ortiz: Genetic and morphological characterization of hybridization of howler monkeys in Mexico

12:45 Lunch

Chair: Andrew S. Burrell

14:15 Christian Roos: Nuclear versus mitochondrial DNA: The complex evolutionary history of colobine genera

15:00 Linda Vigilant: Population histories of great apes: Results from gorillas

15:45 Afternoon coffee break

Chair: Clifford J. Jolly

16:15 Nick Patterson: Human-chimpanzee speciation and a new resource for study of great ape evolution

17:00 John S. Wilkins: What does hybridisation and lateral transfer do to the concept of species?

17:45 General Discussion and Symposium 'wrap-up' by Michael L. Arnold and Thomas T. Struhsaker