Symposia and Workshops
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1. The Lyell Symposium - Comparing the geological and fossil records in deep-sea, shallow marine shelf and terrestrial habitats: implications for biodiversity studies
Invited speakers include: Tony Barnosky, Mike Benton, James Crampton, Shanan Peters
Organiser: Andrew Smith
Sponsors: Geological Society, Palaeontographical Society, Palaeontological Association
2. Macroevolution and the Modern Synthesis
Keynote speakers: Keith Bennett, Niles Eldredge
Organisers: Erin Saupe, Bruce Lieberman, Corinne Myers, Francine Abe, Wes Gapp, & Curtis Congreve
Sponsor: Paleontological Society
3. The micropalaeontological record of global change
Keynote Speaker: Luc Beaufort
Organisers: Tom Dunkley-Jones & Taniel Danelian
Sponsor: The Micropalaeontological Society
4. Microfossil contribution to understanding the tree of life
Keynote speakers: Jan Pawloski, Ivan Sansom
Organisers: Daniela Schmidt, Paul Bown & Jeremy Young
Sponsor: The Micropalaeontological Society
5. The Acquisition, Curation and Conservation of Palaeontological Collections
Organiser: Sarah Long
6. Palaeontological Data Analysis
Keynote speakers: Philipp Mitteroecker, David Polly
Organiser: Norman MacLeod
7. Origin, evolution and phylogeny of the Brachiopoda
Keynote speaker: Lars Holmer
Organisers: David Harper & Rong Jiayu
8. The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Causes and Consequences
Keynote speaker: Alan Owen
Organisers: David Harper & Thomas Servais
9. Devonian Bioevents - Timing, Palaeoecological and Evolutionary Patterns
Keynote speaker: Sandra Kaiser
Organiser: Thomas Becker
Sponsor: Subcommission on the Devonian System
10. Geomicrobiology at critical periods of Earth History
Keynote speaker: Roger Summons
Organiser: Xie Shucheng
12. Chemosynthetic communities: palaeoecology, systematics and evolutionary history
Keynote speaker: Joern Peckmann
Organiser: Cris Little
13. Biotic recovery after mass extinction events
Keynote speaker: Hugo Bucher
Organiser: Richard Twitchett, Steve Kershaw & Sylvie Crasquin
14. Molecular Palaeobiology: molecular clocks, evolutionary rates and geological dates
Keynote speakers: Bruce Runnegar and Sam Bowring
Organisers: Phil Donoghue & Kevin Peterson
Sponsor: The Palaeontological Association
15. Modelling the climate of Palaeozoic Earth
Keynote speaker: Jeff Kiehl
Organisers: Thijs Vandenbroucke, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz & Howard Armstrong
Sponsor: British Geological Survey
16. Rates of Morphological Evolution: Size, Shape, and Character Change in Fossil Lineages
Keynote speakers: David Collar, Peter Wagner
Organisers: Stephen Brusatte & Graeme Lloyd
17. Functional morphology at the intersection between biology and engineering
Keynote speaker: Peter Lucas
Organisers: Emily Rayfield, Colin Palmer & Phil Anderson
18. From teeth to Tibet - new techniques and views on mammals and Cenozoic environmental change
Keynote speaker: Adrian Lister
Organisers: Christine Janis, Jussi Eronen & Mikael Fortelius.
19. Major transitions in the early evolution of life
Keynote speaker: Andy Knoll
Organiser: Stefan Bengtson
20. From death to data: the taphonomy of skeletons and soft tissues
Keynote speakers: Derek Briggs, Susan Kidwell
Organiser: Paddy Orr, Mark Purnell, Rudy Raff & Sarah Gabbott
21. The wood from the trees: phylogenetic approaches to large-scale events in the history of life
Keynote speakers: William Crepet, Andy Purvis
Organisers: Marcello Ruta & Mike Benton
22. Mechanisms that guide evolutionary change for vertebrate dentitions: co-option of ancient patterns
Keynote speakers: Gareth Fraser, Mark Tummers
Organisers: Zerina Johanson & Moya Smith
23. Recent discoveries and advances in the palaeontology of China
Keynote speakers: Xiao Shuhai, Xu Xing, Shen Shuzhong, Wang Jun
Organisers: Yang Qun & Rong Jiayu
Sponsor: Palaeontological Society of China and China Fossil Preservation Foundation
24. The origin of life on land and its geological consequences
Keynote speakers: Nick Butterfield, Charles Wellman
Organisers: Paul Kenrick & Marco Vecoli
26. Time-specific facies: the colour and texture of biotic events
Keynote speaker: Eberhard Schindler, Tony Hallam
Organisers: Kathleen Histon, Annalisa Ferretti, Patrick McLaughlin & Carlton Brett
Workshops
W1. Recent advances in Echinoderm phylogeny
Organiser: Andrew Smith
W2. Annual Business Meeting of the International Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy
Organiser: Thomas Becker
W3. Restoration of marine ecosystems following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction: lessons for the present
Organisers: Richard Twitchett, Sylvie Crasquin & Steve Kershaw
Sponsor: IGCP 572
W4. PaleoParks and the threat to our basic data
Organiser: Jere Lipps
Sponsor: International Palaeontological Association
W5. Virtual palaeontology techniques
Organiser: Mark Sutton
W6. How conodonts lived and ate: food processing functions of conodont elements
Organiser: Steve Leslie
Sponsor: Pander Society
W7. Palaeobiology, palaeoecology and stratigraphy of graptolites
Organiser: Jan Zalasiewicz
Sponsor: BigG
W8. Chelicerate Phylogeny
Organiser: Simon Braddy
W9. Origin and evolution of early vertebrate characters
Organisers: Kate Trinajstic & Zerina Johanson
W10. Palynology and the Palaeozoic Earth System
Organiser: John Marshall
Sponsor: Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paleozoique