North American Dipterists Society Annual Meeting

Organizer(s)

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  Jessica Gillung

  Assistant Professor
  Natural Resource Sciences
  McGill University
  Pincourt, Québec, Canada
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  Torsten Dikow

  Research Entomologist
  Department of Entomology
  Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
  Washington, District of Columbia
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  Matthew Bertone

  Director, Plant Disease and Insect Clinic
  Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
  North Carolina State University
  Raleigh, North Carolina
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  Stephen Gaimari

  California State Collection of Arthropods
  Sacramento, California

Annual meeting of the North American Dipterists Society. The goal of the organized meeting is to bring together those ESA attendees with an interest in Diptera and in particular, those studying the taxonomy, systematics, ecology, and biodiversity.

Presentations:

• 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM PT

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
• 7:30 PM – 7:45 PM PT

  The career, legacy and life of dipterist William J. Turner (1940-2022)
  

  Presenting Author: Luc Leblanc – University of Idaho

  Co-author: Gregory Turner-Rahman – University of Idaho
• 7:45 PM – 8:00 PM PT

  Evidence for transantarctic dispersal or Gondwanan vicariance in Syrphidae
  

  Presenting Author: Kevin Moran – Carleton University

  Co-author: Jeff Skevington – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  Co-author: Ashton Pooley – Flinders University

  Co-author: Michael Valentine – Hillsborough Community College

  Co-author: Ximo Mengual – Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

  Co-author: Scott Kelso – Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
• 8:00 PM – 8:40 PM PT

  Discussion
• 8:40 PM – 8:45 PM PT

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Torsten Dikow – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History