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Thu, 2006-02-23 03:04 — Vince Smith

 

 
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2007
    V. S. Smith. Science publishing for the MySpace generation: MySpecies and the Encyclopedia of Life
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      Invited.. Science Foo Camp 2007 ("unconference" event), organized by Nature and O'Reilly publishing groups and hosted by Google at Googleplex, Mountain View, California. August 3-5, 2007.
       
    V. S. Smith. Lice : the living fossils
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      Invited. Nature Live Event (Public outreach), Natural History Museum, London. July 20, 2007.
       
    V. S. Smith. Cybertaxonomy ( & movies available)
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      Invited. Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, London. July 17, 2007.
       
    V. S. Smith, D. Roberts, M. Gonzalez, & S. Rycroft. Scratchpads - a space for your data on the web
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      Invited. Data commonalities workshop. Part of a series of events for the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT), Natural History Museum, London. April 26-27, 2007.
       
    V. S. Smith, D. Roberts, M. Gonzalez, & S. Rycroft. Scratchpads - a space for your data on the web
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      Invited. Zoology Departmental Seminar Series, Natural History Museum, London. April 19, 2007.
       
    V. S. Smith. NHM Remote Imaging System Demonstration
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      Invited.By video and audio link from the Natural History Museum, London, to the Chicago Field Museum. January 22, 2007. Chicago Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA.
       
 

2006
    V. S. Smith, Robert C. Dalgleish, Simon Rycroft, & David Reed. Electronic Resources for Studying Lice
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      3rd International Congress on Phthiraptera. October 16 - 20, 2006.CIPEIN, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
       
    V. S. Smith, Tom Ford, Kevin Johnson, Paul Johnson, Kazunori Yoshizawa, & Roderic D. M. Page. The Diversification of Lice: Age
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      Invited. 3rd International Congress on Phthiraptera. October 16 - 20, 2006.CIPEIN, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
       
    V. S. Smith & Kevin Johnson. The Diversification of Lice: Phylogeny
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      Invited. 3rd International Congress on Phthiraptera. October 16 - 20, 2006.CIPEIN, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
       
 

2005
    V. S. Smith. What is Cybertaxonomy? some case studies from a louse systematist
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      Invited. Natural History Museum, London, UK. 16th September, 2005.
       
    V. S. Smith & K. P. Johnson. The evolution of microhabitat specialization in parasitic lice: lineage assortment or character displacement?
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      Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). June 10-14, 2005. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA.
       
    V. S. Smith. Did dinosaurs have lice? estimating rates of diversification in parasitic lice
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      Invited speaker / instructor. Biostatistics workshop (Bayesian and likelihood inference of phylogeny) with John Huelsenbeck, Fred Ronquist, Dave Swofford, and Jeff Thorne. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 22-31, 2005)
       
 

2004
    V. S. Smith. DNA Barcoding Debate
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      Invited. Debate chair and session organiser. PEET V Meeting. 21-25 Sept. 2004, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. USA.
       
    V.S. Smith. SID: Specimen Image Database
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      Invited. Biological image database workshop. 10-11 Sept. 2004. Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
       
    V. S. Smith., T. Ford, K.P. Johnson, P. Johnson, R.D.M.Page. Did dinosaurs have lice?
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      Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN),the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). 26-30 June 2004, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA.
       
    K. Yoshizawa, K.P. Johnson, V.S. Smith. Multiple Origins of Parasitism in Lice
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      POSTER PRESENTATION. Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). 26-30 June 2004, ColoradoState University, Colorado, USA.
       
    E.G. Grosso, G. Laufer, V.S. Smith. Piojos masticadoresde pluma, ectoparásitos del ñandú (Rhea americana)
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      POSTER PRESENTATION. 6th International conference for the management of wildlife in Amazonia and Latin America. 5-10 September, The National University of Peruvian Amazonía (UNAP), Iquitos, Peru. CONFERENCE NOT PERSONALLY ATTENDED BY VSS.
       
 

2003
    V. S. Smith. Lousy phylogenies: Phthiraptera systematics and the antiquity of lice
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      Invited speaker. The Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders. September 19-21, 2003. Dresden, Germany.
       
    V. S. Smith. Ancient mariners and recent stowaways: the coevolution of seabirds and their lice
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      Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN),the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). June 20-24, 2003. California State University, Chico. California, USA.
       
 

2002
    V. S. Smith. Data Set Incongruence and the Problem of Avian Louse Phylogeny
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      Invited. 2nd International Congress on Phthiraptera.July 8 - 12, 2002. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
       
    V. S. Smith & R.D.M. Page. LouseBase: An Online Specimen and Data Management System for Working with Lice
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      2nd International Congress on Phthiraptera. July 8 - 12, 2002.University of Queensland,Brisbane, Australia.
       
    V. S. Smith & K. P. Johnson. Lies I have told about lice: a fresh look at avian louse phylogeny
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      POSTER PRESENTATION. Joint meetings of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). 29 June - 2 July 2002, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. USA.
       
 

2001
    V. S. Smith. Ischnoceran Louse Phylogeny : Congruence, Consensus and Coevolution
      Invited. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA. 28th November,2001.
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2000
    V. S. Smith. Ischnoceran Louse Phylogeny : Congruence, Consensus and Coevolution
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      Invited. Royal Entomological Society, Medical and Veterinary Entomology Special Interest Group, 1st November 2000, Royal Entomological Society, London.
       
 

1999
    V. S. Smith. Heirlooms or Souvenirs: Have lice cospeciated with their hosts?
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      Joint meetings of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN),the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). 22-26 June 1999, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
       
    V. S. Smith. Reconstructing character state trees: an example based on louse head shape
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      Second biennial conference of the Systematics Association. 23-27 August 1999, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. (Won £500 of book vouchers for best student paper at the conference).