Arachnology 2012 Green Bay
The 2012 meeting of the American Arachnological Society in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was hosted by Mike Draney of UWGB and Vicki Medland of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity. I live-tweeted this conference for the many who could not attend.
- FRIDAY JULY 20
Off to the American Arachnological Society conf. I'll use #arachno12 nless they have smthn else bit.ly/NOy65O- My prelim plan isto use #arachno12 @CMBuddle @GeekInQuestion @derekhennen @BioInFocus @myrmecos @SpiderJoe @bug_girl
- My Greyhound is "wheels-down" in Green Bay for #arachno12. Excited to see old arthropod-folk friends & meet new...
- SATURDAY JULY
- Opening session of American Arachnological Society meeting in Green Bay Wisc USA - with a linyphiid logo! #arachno12
- Dear friends, I am tweeting the #spiders / #arachnids mtg, so you want to mute if you're into that #arachno12
- 1st session is Morphology. 1st up: Facundo M Labarque on the pretarsus - internal morphology of distal segment of spider leg #arachno12
- Labarque: we looked at phylogenetic variation in attachment point of elevator & depressor tendons that spider claws #arachno12
- Next: Patrick Casto on pedipalp papillae of solfugids (camel spiders) #arachno12
- Casto: cross-seections of papillae dendrites & pores support olfactory reception #arachno12
- Casto: solfugid papillae have interesting microstructure: inner cuticle and lumen with microvilli #arachno12
- Next: Daniel N Proud on tarsal flexors & glands in harvestmen (Opiliones) #arachno12
- Proud: opilionids walk on ventral surface of the tarsus -in some, tarsi are prehensile- wh requires special tendon structures #arachno12
- Proud: some opilionids can actually wrap their legs all the way around a twig #arachno12
- Proud: the groups he studied are v closely related but have great variation in their sexually dimorphic tarsal glands #arachno12
- Next: Joseph T Kilmer on negative allometry of copulatory structures - structure size does not increase proportion'ly w body size #arachno12
- Kilmer: male opilionid mating contact structures, such as tarsi 2&3, have much more-negative allometry #arachno12
- Next: Prashant P Sharma on evolution of the chelicea. They used in situ hybridization to study opilionid 'dachsund' leg gene #arachno12
- Sharma: 'dachsund' is never actually expressed in the spider, so 2-segmented chelicerae, vs. 3 in eg harvestmen #arachno12
- Sharma: They're trying to knock down 'dachsund' in embryos to see if it will produce harvestmen w 2-segmented chelicerae #arachno12
