ICPS 2018 Conference Itinerary

ICPS Conference 2018 Speaker Itinerary

 

Friday, Aug. 3^rd

8:30 AM                     Conference Registration

9:00 AM - 9:30           Peter D'Amato

                                   Opening Address

9:30 AM – 10:30         Andreas Fleischmann

                                    Carnivorous Plant Flower Ecology

10:30 AM – 11:30        Drew Martinez

                                     Does Cultivation Undermine Conservation?

11:30 AM – 1:30           Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:30             Ulrike Bauer

                                     Convergent & Divergent Evolution of Pitcher Traps

2:45 PM                        Bus Departs to California Carnivores

3:05 PM                        Behind the Scenes Viewing of California                                       Carnivores led by Peter D'Amato, Damon                                                                Collingsworth & Mike Wilder

3:30 PM                        Poster Event at California Carnivores

5:30 PM                        Bus Departs California Carnivores

5:50 PM                        Bus Returns to the Hyatt Hotel

 

Saturday, Aug. 4^th  ( Show & Sale Starts)

9:00 AM – 10:00           Larry Mellichamp

                                     How Do Sarracenia Avoid Eating Their Pollinators?

10:00 AM – 11:00        Ulrike Muller

                                     Bladderwort Traps: The Fastest Predators

11:00 AM – 12:00         Andrej Pavlovic

                                     Regulation of Enzyme Activities

12:00 PM – 2:00           Lunch 

2:00 PM – 3:00             Naoki Tanabe

                                     The Japanese Nepenthes clipeata Project 

3:00 PM – 4:00             Aaron M. Ellison

                                     Scientific Advances with Darwin's "most wonderful plants                                       in the world"

4:00 PM – 4:15             Intermission

4:15 PM – 5:15             Robert Gibson

                                     Drosera Flower Behavior

5:15 PM                        Surprise Presentation

 

Sunday, August 5^th

9:00 AM – 10:00           Fernando Rivadavia 

                                     Carnivorous Plant Phylogeny 101

10:00 AM – 11:00        Laura Skates

                                     Nutrition, Ecology, and Conservation of Australian                                                   Carnivorous Plants

11:00 AM- 11:15          Intermission

11:15 AM – 12:15        James Chilton

                                     Darlingtonia Ecology & Conservation  

12:15 PM – 2:15           Lunch

2:15 PM – 3:15             John Brittnacher

                                     Drosera filiformis and Friends: Do Plants Care About                                               "Species"?                                                   

4:00 PM                        Show and Sale Closes

4:15 PM – 5:15             Jeremiah Harris

                                     The Hunt for Nepenthes in Papua                                   

5:15 PM                        Close of Conference 

6:00 PM - ?                   Banquet at Hyatt Conference Center

                                     Magic Performance by Naoki Tanabe

 

Each talk is 45 minutes long with 15 minutes of sceduled Q&A