Programme - Manchester 2018 - Manchester Universities
Schedule of Events
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Wednesday 5th September
SPPC/GCG Conference
Session: 1
Chair: Cindy Howells
10:30-10:45
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10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
11:15-11:30
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11:30-11:45
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11:45-12:00
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12:00-12:15
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12:15-12:30
SPPC open session
12:30-14:00
Lunch Break
SVPCA Conference
Session: 2
Chair: Robert Sansom — Special Symposium
14:00-14:15
SVPCA opening remarks
14:15-14:45
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14:45-15:15
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15:15-15:45
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15:45-16:15
Tea Break (Samuel Alexander BuildingFoyer)
16:45-17:15
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17:15-17:45
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18:00-20:00
Welcome Reception (Fossil Galleries, Manchester Museum)
10:00-10:15
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Thursday 6th September
Session: 1
Chair: Joseph Keating
09:00-09:15
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09:30-09:45
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09:45-10:00
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Session: 2
Chair: Graeme Lloyd
11:15-11:30
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11:30-11:45
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11:45-12:00
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12:00-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-13:45
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Session: 3
Chair: Susie Maidment
15:15-15:30
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15:45-16:00
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16:30-18:00
SVPCA Poster Session (Williamson Building) (All Poster Presenters)
18:00-20:00
Annual Auction (Williamson Building)
11:00-11:15
Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza
Climatic drivers behind the demise of non-avian dinosaurs at the end Cretaceous mass extinction
14:00-14:15
Roland Sookias
Reconciling morphology and molecular data in inferring phylogeny for extant crocodilians
14:15-14:30
Robin Beck
Improvements in the fossil record may largely resolve the conflict between morphological and molecular estimates of mammal phylogeny
13:45-14:00
Leah Callender-Crowe
Evaluating the performance and correlation morphological characters in reconstructing avian and squamate evolutionary history
14:30-14:45
Graeme Lloyd
Meta-analytical integration of fossil and molecular data in phylogenetic inference and the first truly comprehensive phylogeny for Cetacea
10:30-11:00
Tea Break
Session: 4
Chair: Sam Giles
14:45-15:15
Tea Break (Samuel Alexander Building Foyer)
15:30-15:45
Paul Barrett
Those feathers wonÕt stick: maximum likelihood modelling supports scales as primitive for Dinosauria
16:15-16:30
Roxanne Armfield
Cranial anatomy of the Palaeocene snake Helagras prisciformis; early implications for crown macrostomatan snakes
Friday 7th September
Session: 1
Chair: John Nudds
09:00-09:15
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10:30-11:00
Tea Break (Samuel Alexander Building Foyer)
Session: 2
Chair: Paul Barrett
11:15-11:30
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11:45-12:00
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12:00-13:30
Lunch Break
13:45-14:00
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Session: 3
Chair: Robin Beck
15:45-16:00
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17:00-19:00
Conference Dinner (Yang Sing, 34 Princess Street, M1 4JY)
16:00-16:15
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11:00-11:15
Claire Bullar
Ceratopsian braincase morphology and palaeoneurology through ontogeny.
Session: 4
Chair: Liz Martin
13:30-13:45
Robert Brocklehurst
Modelling Avian Ventilation Mechanics with 3D Levers and Linkages
14:30-14:45
Carolina Karoullas
Estimating the Flight Capabilities of Fossil Birds from Extant Bird Data and Aerodynamic Theory
14:45-15:00
Mariane Delaunay
Do birds have whiskers?
15:00-15:30
Tea Break (Samuel Alexander Building)
15:30-15:45
Donald Henderson
Sediments, skulls and squishing Ð taphonomic investigations of ceratopsian skull deformation
16:45-17:00
Stephan Lautenschlager
Morphological convergence and functional diversification of sabre-toothed vertebrates
