Announcement: Second circular of the 1rst International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting

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First International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting
Paris, July 6-9, 2004
Second circular
Dear colleagues,
The First International Phylogenetic Nomenclature Meeting will be held in
Paris, at the Muséum National d?Histoire Naturelle (with financial support
from the Fondation Hugo of the Collège de France), from July 6 to July 9,
2004.  (Please note that the dates announced in the first circular have been
changed.)  This meeting should be of general interest for biologists because
it will constitute an important event in the development of a new code of
biological nomenclature. Papers presented at the meeting will be assembled
into a symposium volume (after going through a standard refereeing process)
whose publication will coincide with the implementation of the PhyloCode.
This volume will represent the official starting point of phylogenetic
nomenclature as implemented in the PhyloCode, and the names defined within
it will be the first ones established under the new code.  We hope that
specialists on a wide range of organisms will participate in the meeting and
contribute to the symposium volume.
The Organizing committee

Michel Laurin, Chair, CNRS, Paris, France
Fredrik Pleijel, Contact at the MNHN, Paris, France
Armand de Ricqlès, Contact at the Collège de France, Paris, France
Jacques Gauthier, Editor of the Symposium Volume, Yale University, New
Haven, USA
Kevin de Queiroz, Editor of the Symposium Volume, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., USA
Jean-François Le Garrec, Treasurer, Paris, France
Tom Artois, Financing, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Louise Zylberberg, CNRS, Paris, France
Jackie André, MNHN, Paris, France
Contact information
Michel Laurin
UMR 8570, Evolution et Adaptation des Systèmes Ostéomusculaires
Université Paris 7 ? Denis Diderot, case 7077
2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris
E-mail: laurin@ccr.jussieu.fr
Phone: (331) 44 27 36 92
Fax: (331) 44 27 56 53

Important dates
Congress date
Tuesday, July 6 to Friday, July 9, 2004
Registration
July 6, 2004
Participants and accompanying persons can register from 9 to 12 at the
Aphithéâtre Verniquet of the Muséum National d?Histoire Naturelle (57, rue
Cuvier, 75005 Paris, subway station Jussieu or Gare d?Austerlitz).
Deadlines
Offers of Contributions: February 1, 2004
Submission of Abstracts: March 1, 2004
Registration fees (all in Euros)
Regular Participant:
before December 1,  2003: 70 ?
from December 1, 2003 to February 1, 2004: 85 ?
after February 1, 2004 and on-congress registration: 100 ?

Student:
before December 1, 2003: 35 ?
from December 1, 2003 to February 1, 2004: 55 ?
after February 1, 2004 and on-congress registration: 75 ?

Accompanying person: 30 ?
Registration fee waivers are available upon request in justified cases
(i.e., if you have no grant support to pay the cost of attending the
meeting).  The organizing committee will decide on a case-by-case basis on
the attribution of these waivers.
All refunds will be subject to a 20? cancellation fee.  No refund will be
granted after February 1, 2004.
All categories of registration include the opening ceremony, reception,
access to the symposium, and food and beverages served during the breaks.
All categories of registration except for accompanying persons will receive
the programme and book of abstracts.
Please note that on-congress registration will depend on the availability of
seats in the conference room, and that contributions submitted after
February 1, 2004 will be possible only if there is still room in the
schedule.  Such late contributions, if accepted, will be distributed as
separate sheets (they will not be integrated to the abstracts booklet).
Payment should be sent to Michel Laurin by cheque to the order of the ?Agent
comptable du Collège de France?.

Travel
How to get there
Paris can be reached by air through two main international airports: Orly
and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.  From both airports, trains and buses go to
Paris regularly (several trains every hour).  Several train stations are
located within Paris.  An excellent network of subways can bring you to
within a few hundred meters of almost any location in Paris, and buses and
RER (trains) complete this public transportation system.  A few night buses
leave from central Paris (place du Châtelet) in various directions, but they
are infrequent (departures every 30 minutes).  Thus, if you plan on using
public transportion, please avoid traveling between 1:00h and 5:30h (am).
The Muséum National d?Histoire Naturelle is located close to the subway and
train station ?Gare d?Austerlitz?.
Passports and Visas
A valid passport is required for all international travel.  The visa
requirements for France vary according to your country of origin.  Please
contact your local Embassy or consulate of France for further information.
A passport is not required to travel between EU countries but we recommend
that you bring it with you.
Personal invitations
If you require a letter of personal invitation to the congress, please
contact Michel Laurin.  This letter does not represent a commitment on the
part of the organizing committee to provide financial support.
General Information
The official time in France is GMT + 2 hours.
The electricity supply is 220V, 50 Hz AC
Insurance: The Organizing Committee cannot assume responsibility for
injuries of losses occurring to persons or personal belongings during the
Congress.  Therefore, participants are advised to take travel and health
insurance.
Currency and exchange
All prices are in Euros.  Several exchange bureaus can be found in Paris,
but for some countries, it may be best for you to change your currencies
into Euros before coming to France; you may get a better rate that way and
some exchange bureaus may not accept currencies that are not commonly
exchanged in France.

Accommodations
Paris is not a low-budget destination, and the summer is the tourist season.
Thus, to avoid disappointments, we recommend that you reserve your hotel
room as early as possible, and in any case, several months before the
meeting (at least 4 months for most hotels, and about a year for the
cheapest hotel).  No hotel gives special discounts to the meeting
participants, so you may book whichever hotel you like.  For your
convenience, we provide (below) a partial list of hotels, most of which are
located close to the congress venue.  The prices are in Euros and are valid
in May 2003; they may increase somewhat before the meeting.  Breakfast is
not included unless otherwise noted.  Prices are given for single rooms
(rooms with a bed for a single person) and double rooms (rooms with a bed
for two).  If the hotel list below is insufficient, you can easily find
others close to the congress venue on the on-line yellow pages at
http://wff.pagesjaunes.fr/pj.cgi?lang=en by typing ?hotel? in the ?Business
type? field, ?Paris? in the ?Town? field, and ?75005? in the ?Department
district or region? field (this search should enable you to locate about 150
hotels).  On that site, you also find pictures and a map enabling you to see
and locate easily your hotel.

Hôtel Royal Saint-Michel
3, boulevard Saint-Michel (subway station Saint-Michel)
tel. (331) 44 07 06 06
fax. (331) 44 07 36 25
Price: 150? for a single room with bathroom; 170? for a double room with
bathroom.
Breakfast: included
Reserve at least 1 month in advance.

Hôtel des Arènes
51, rue Monge, 75005 Paris (subway stations Jussieu and Monge)
tel. (331) 42 35 09 26
fax. (331) 43 25 79 56
Price: 115? for a single room; 120? for a double room; 159 for triples.
Breakfast: 10?/person
Reserve at least 2 months in advance.

Hôtel des Grandes Ecoles
75, rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris (subway stations Cardinal Lemoine
and Place Monge)
tel. 01 43 26 79 23
Price: 100-125? for a double room with bathroom.
Breakfast: 8?/person
Reserve at least 4 months in advance.

Hôtel du Collège de France
7, rue Thénard, 75005 Paris (subway station Maubert-Mutualité)
http://www.hotel-collegedefrance.com/
tel. (331) 43 26 78 36
fax (331) 46 34 58 29
Price: 81? for single rooms with a bathroom; 90? for double rooms with
bathroom.
Breakfast: 7?/person
Reserve at least 4 months in advance.


Hôtel Esmeralda
4, rue Saint Julien le Pauvre, 75005 Paris (subway station Saint-Michel)
tel. 01 43 54 19 20
fax. 01 40 51 00 68
Price: 60? for single rooms with a bathroom; 30? for single rooms with only
a fawcett; 80? for double rooms with a bathroom.
Breakfast: 5?/person
Reserve at least 4 months in advance.

Hôtel Studia
51, boulevard Saint-Germain, 75005 Paris (subway station Maubert-Mutualité)
tel. 01 43 26 81 00
Price: 66? for singles with a bathroom; 57? for singles with only shower;
44? for singles with only fawcett and bidet (common showers on the same
floor for 3?); 79? for doubles with a bathroom; 53? for doubles with fawcett
and bidet.
Breakfast: included
Reserve at least 2-3 months in advance.

Hôtel du Mont blanc
28 rue Huchette, 75005 Paris (subway station Saint-Michel)
tel. 01 43 54 49 44/01 43 54 22 29
fax. 01 46 34 14 56
Price: 55? for singles with shower and toilet; 80? for doubles with shower
and toilet; 99? for triples.
Breakfast: 6?/person
Reserve at least 7 months in advance.  This hotel is located in a noisy but
very picturesque neighbourhood.

Hôtel Marignan
13 rue Du Sommerard, 75005 Paris (subway station Maubert-Mutualité)
tel. 01 43 54 63 81/01 43 25 31 03
fax: 01 43 25 16 69
Price: 48? for singles without shower or toilet (free common showers on same
floor); 65? for doubles without shower or toilet (free common showers on
same floor); 115? for triples with shower and toilet; 130? for four people
with shower and toilet.
Breakfast: included
Reserve at least 6 months in advance.

Hôtel des Alliés
20 rue Berthollet, 75005 Paris (subway station Censier-Daubenton)
tel. 01 43 31 47 52
fax: 01 45 35 13 92
Price: 57? for doubles with shower and toilet
Breakfast: 5?/person
Reserve at least 2-3 months in advance.

Centre International de Séjour de Paris (C.I.S.P)
6 avenue Maurice Ravel, 75012 Paris (subway station Portes de Vincennes)
tel. 01 44 75 60 06
fax. 01 43 44 45 30
Price: 30? for singles with toilet and shower; 39? for doubles without
shower and toilet (both are located on the same floor and are free); 48? for
doubles with shower and toilet.
Breakfast: included.
Reserve at least 10 months in advance.  Please note that this hotel is much
farther than the others from the congress venue, but it is the most
inexpensive.

Abstract submission
There will be no poster presentations; all contributions will be 15-minute
talks.
Abstracts must be written in English.  Please save the text in Microsoft
Word or rtf format.  The abstract should start with the title, written in
lower case.  The author names and addresses follow on separate lines (one
line per author).  The last name of each author should appear first,
followed by the initials and the institutional address.  For the first (or
corresponding) author, please provide e-mail address, phone and fax numbers.
The body of the abstract should start on the next line and be indented by 1
cm.  The first line of each paragraph should be indented by 1 cm.
After the main text of each abstract, please provide an exhaustive list of
names that you intend to define (instead of a list of key-words), and please
indicate briefly but clearly how you intend to define each name (this should
be done using the conventions provided by Note 9.4.1 of the PhyloCode).  The
text (including abstract and list of defined names) should not exceed 600
words or 4500 characters (spaces included).  Abstract title, author names
and addresses are not included in this count.
We ask that systematists who work on the same group collaborate and produce
a single set of phylogenetic definitions for clade names in that group.  If
contributions overlap (i.e., two contributions include at least one name to
be defined in common), we will contact all parties involved and ask them
either to collaborate or to divide the work equitably.  If the parties
involved fail to reach an agreement, the symposium volume editors will
decide the attribution of the contentious names.  In some cases, we may let
two competing teams present alternative viewpoints for some name definitions
at the meeting, and choose, using the refereeing process, which alternative
of each name and definition to adopt (i.e. to publish in the symposium
volume).
We suggest that in each talk (and written contribution for the symposium
volume), you cover the history of the ideas on classification and phylogeny
of each name that you intend to define.  Note that the PhyloCode recommends
that clade names should be selected to minimize disruption of current usage
(Recommendation 10A) and should attempt to capture the historical use of the
taxon names (Recommendation 11A).  Following these recommendations should
minimize the probability that your definitions will be emended in the future
(see Note 13.1.2 of the PhyloCode).  Please also make sure that your
definitions follow the other articles and notes of the Phylocode (accessible
on the internet at http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/).  Please note that the
definitions mentioned in the abstracts will not be considered established
under the PhyloCode.  (Similarly, new names in the abstracts will not be
available under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, or
validly published under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature or
the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria.)  The first definitions
that will be established under that code will be in the symposium volume.
Thus, we hope that many speakers will be interested in contributing to that
volume.

Abstracts should follow the format given in the example (below):
A phylogenetic nomenclature of early limbed vertebrates
Laurin, M., UMR CNRS 8570, Case 7077, U. Paris 7, 75005 Paris, FRANCE.
E-mail: laurin@ccr.jussieu.fr; phone: (33) 1 44 27 36 92; fax: (33) 1 44 27
56 53.
The phylogeny of limbed vertebrates is in a state of flux.  Most authors
agree that Panderichthys and Elpistostege are our closest known relatives
whose paired appendages are known to have been fins, but this hypothesis has
been accepted for only about a decade.  Thus, I propose to define the name
Stegocephali Cope 1868 (converted name) for the most inclusive clade
containing Eryops megacephalus but not Panderichthys rhombolepis,
Elpistostege watsoni, Eusthenopteron foordi, Osteolepis panderi and
Strepsodus sauroides.  The name Stegocephali formerly included all the
earliest limbed vertebrates, but was paraphyletic before it was given a
phylogenetic definition in the late 1990s.  The name Anthracosauria has
always included embolomeres; it has sometimes included seymouriamorphs, and
much more rarely, amniotes.  I propose to define Anthracosauria
Säve-Söderbergh 1934 (converted clade name) as the largest clade that
includes Anthracosaurus russelli but neither Homo sapiens nor Ascaphus
truei.  Thus defined, the contents of Anthracosauria can expand to include
seymouriamorphs if they form a clade with embolomeres that excludes
lissamphibians and amniotes.  The name Seymouriamorpha Watson 1917
(converted clade name) is here defined as the largest clade that includes
Seymouria baylorensis but not Homo sapiens, Anthracosaurus russelli, and
Diadectes sideropelicus.  Tetrapoda has referred to limbed vertebrates in
paleontological studies and this is also the intended meaning in many
neontological studies.  However, most statements concerning tetrapods in the
neontological literature describe the crown-group.  Thus, the name Tetrapoda
Goodrich 1930 (converted clade name) is defined as the smallest clade that
includes Ascaphus truei and Homo sapiens.  Tetrapods have often been divided
into two main groups, one that includes lissamphibians and their extinct
relatives, and another that includes amniotes and their extinct relatives.
This nomenclature is adopted here by defining the name Amphibia Linnaeus
1758 (converted clade name) as the largest clade that includes Ascaphus
truei but not Homo sapiens, and by defining the name Reptiliomorpha
Säve-Söderbergh 1934 (converted clade name) as the largest clade that
includes Homo sapiens but not Ascaphus truei.  Diadectomorphs are generally
considered to be closely related to amniotes, but some authors have
suggested that they are basal synapsids.  Earlier studies also suggested
affinities with parareptiles.  To ensure that the composition of this taxon
will always reflect established usage, the name Diadectomorpha Watson 1917
is defined as the most inclusive clade that includes Diadectes sideropelicus
but not Solenodonsaurus janenschi, Seymouria baylorensis, Homo sapiens,
Eothyris parkeyi, and Procolophon trigoniceps.
DEFINED NAMES:
Stegocephali: Clade (Eryops megacephalus not Panderichthys rhombolepis,
Elpistostege watsoni, Eusthenopteron foordi, Osteolepis panderi and
Strepsodus sauroides)
Anthracosauria: Clade (Anthracosaurus russelli not Homo sapiens and Ascaphus
truei)
Seymouriamorpha: Clade (Seymouria baylorensis not Homo sapiens,
Anthracosaurus russelli, and Diadectes sideropelicus)
Tetrapoda: Clade (Ascaphus truei and Homo sapiens)
Amphibia: Clade (Ascaphus truei not Homo sapiens)
Reptiliomorpha: Clade (Homo sapiens not Ascaphus truei)
Diadectomorpha: Clade (Diadectes sideropelicus not Solenodonsaurus
janenschi, Seymouria baylorensis, Homo sapiens, Eothyris parkeyi, and
Procolophon trigoniceps)


Preliminary timetable
Time    Day
        Tuesday, July 6 Wednesday, July 7       Thursday, July 8        Friday, 
July 9
9-12    Registration    Symposium       Symposium       Symposium
12-14   Lunch break     Lunch break     Lunch break     Lunch break
14-16   Opening ceremony and plenary lectures   Symposium       Business meeting
Symposium
16-18   Symposium       Symposium               Symposium
18-21   Reception dinner
Note: The business meeting will include the inauguration of the
International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature, election of officers of
the ISPN, and the formation of its committees.

Registration form
Please complete this form and return it to Michel Laurin at:
laurin@ccr.jussieu.fr (preferably) or (331) 44 27 56 53.  If returning the
form electronicaly, please simply copy this page to a word processor and
save it in rtf or word format.
If your abstract is ready, please send it along with the registration form.

Participant

Surname/Family name:
First name:
Title:
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Address:
City:
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Country:
E-mail:

Contributions

Do you intend to present a talk?
If so, title:
Names that you intend on defining:

Accompanying persons

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Registration fees (all prices are in Euros)

Amount included (only cheques, please):

Please send the cheque at the same time as you send the form; your
registration will be confirmed once we get both your registration form and
your payment.

Type    Before December 1, 2003 Until February 1, 2003  After February 1, and
on-congress registration
Regular participant     70?     85?     100?
Student 35?     55?     75?
Accompanying person     30?     30?     30?
Participants coming with an accompanying person should send a single cheque
for the total sum.  Please send the cheque (payable to ?Agent comptable du
Collège de France?) to:
Michel Laurin
UMR 8570, Université Paris 7 ? Denid Diderot, 2 place Jussieu, case 7077,
75005 Paris, FRANCE

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
                College Park, MD  20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone:  301-405-4084    Email:  tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Fax (Geol):  301-314-9661       Fax (CPS-ELT): 301-405-0796