PASI Schedule

*last updated May 7, 2008*

Monday May 26, 2008 (Lima)

9-9.30 Registration

9.30-10 AM Introductions/ Introduccion by Eric Cosio and Jorge Vivanco

10-11 AM Max Gunther, The Explorer’s Inn
The Explorer’s Inn: The making of the first eco-lodge in the Tambopata National Reserve

El Explorer’s Inn: El nacimiento del primer lodge ecológico en la Reserva Nacional de Tambopata

11-11.30 AM Coffee Break/ Cafe

11.30-12.30 Stephan Halloy, Conservation International
Conservation International activities in South America

Las actividades de Conservacion Internacional en Sud America

12.30-2.30 PM Lunch break/ Almuerzo

2.30-3.30 PM Abraham Vaisberg, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Search for new pharmaceuticals from the tropical forest

Busqueda de nuevos compuestos farmaceuticos en los bisques tropicales

3.30-4PM Coffee Break/ Cafe

4-5 PM Margaret Lowman, New College of Florida
Life in the treetops - canopy ecology and its impacts on Rainforest conservation

Vida en la copa de los arboles: ecologia de copa y el impacto de esta en la conservacion de bisques tropicales

5-6 PM Todd Michael, Rutgers University
High throughput genomic approaches to chemical ecology

Usos de la genomica en ecologia quimica

Dinner on your own and free time

Tuesday May 27, 2008 (Lima)

9-10 AM Phyllis Coley, University of Utah
Chemical Ecology in the Tropics

Ecologia quimica de los tropicos

10-11 AM Aaron Dossey, University of Florida
Milking them for all they're worth: chemical defenses of walkingsticks and other insects

Ordeñando a los insectos: defensas quimicas de los insectos

11-11.30 AM Coffee Break/ Cafe

11.30- 12.30 PM Eran Pichersky, University of Michigan
How plants make and emit scent compounds

Como las plantas producen y emiten compuestos volatiles

12.30 – 2.30 PM Lunch Break/ Almuerzo (food will be provided)

2.30 – 3.30 PM Tom Kursar, University of Utah
Developing an ethical model for bioprospecting and linking bioprospecting with conservation

Desarrollando un modelo etico de la bioprospeccion en conjunction con la conservacion

3.30 – 5:00 PM Naomi Pierce, Harvard University
Evolution of blue butterflies and ants: pattern and process

Dinner on your own and free time

Wednesday May 28, 2008

9-11 AM Travel to Tambopata

12-1PM Arrive at Puerto Maldonado

1-3.30 PM Travel to Tambopata by bus and boat. Lunch boxes will be served on the boat.

3.30-4PM Welcome talk by the Administrator of the Explorer’s Inn

4-6 PM Settle in at the Explorer’s Inn

6-8PM Two different activities: Night nature walk or caiman search by boat.

8PM Dinner

Thursday May 29, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

8-1PM Field Trip

On May 29, 30 and 31, three different morning field trips in the Tambopata National Reserve (TNR) have been planned that will be guided by either resident naturalists or field guides. The participants and lecturers will be divided in three interdisciplinary groups that will participate in a different field trip on a given morning with the idea that all participants and lecturers experience the biodiversity of Tambopata. The three guided field trips will be:

1. Aguas Negras river. This will be a boat trip up one of the tributary rivers of the Tambopata river. At some point the boat will stop and the group will conduct a nature hike.
2. Lake Cocococha and high forest. Walk to one of the biggest oxbow lakes in the TNR, home to giant river otters and hoatzin in addition to the unique flora found near oxbow lakes. Walk to high forest, an area above the floodplain and therefore home to many different plant species than the lower forest zones.
3. Low forest walk. This walk will highlight different areas such as clay licks used by mammals and birds, nesting areas of macaws, and ethnobotany of several plant species. Along the way, different ant-plant interactions and ant nests will be shown.

1-4 PM Lunch, siesta (heat is too strong in the afternoon) and break

4-5.30 PM Megan Frederickson, Harvard University
Ant-plant interactions in tropical rainforests

5.30-7PM Jorge Vivanco and Eric Cosio, Colorado State University and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Who needs a bodyguard if you can have Pseudomyrmex ants?

Friday May 30, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

8-1 PM Field Trip

1-4 PM Lunch

4-5.30 PM Chris Frost and Meg Lowman, Penn State University and New College of Florida
From treetops to forest floor - canopy herbivory and soil processes in forest ecosystems

5.30-7PM Phyllis Coley, University of Utah
Interactions between plants and herbivores in the tropics

7-9 PM Caroline Chaboo, Kansas University
Tri-trophic interactions: host plants, beetle herbivores, and beetle parasitoid/predators

Saturday May 31, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

8-1 PM Field Trip

1-4 PM Lunch

4-5.30 PM Gerardo Rubio, University of Buenos Aires
Soil-plant interactions in template and tropical environments

5.30-7 PM Dan Manter and Tiffany Weir, USDA and Colorado State University
Molecular analysis of soil microbes in the Tambopata National Reserve

Sunday June 1, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

8- 12:30 PM Workshops on the Z-nose gas chromatographer sampling procedure, canopy biology, milking insects

1-4 PM Lunch

4-5 PM Art Edison, University of Florida
Activity-guided identification: Pulling needles out of haystacks

5-6 PM Andrea Dosseff, Ohio State University
From plants to health, the anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activities of flavonoids

6 – 7 PM Discussion group about bio prospecting in the Rainforest
Discussion leader: Art Edison

Monday June 2, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

8-9.30 AM Stephan Halloy, Conservation International
Complex systems methods and approaches for integrated multidisciplinary ecological studies

9.30-11 AM Patrick Martin, Colorado State University
Patterns and causes of species richness, structural complexity, and functional diversity in tropical forests

11-11.30 AM Break

11.30-1 PM Ray Callaway, University of Montana
The novel weapons theory of plant invasions (tentative title)

1-4 PM Lunch

4-5.30 PM Mark Paschke, Colorado State University
Disturbance and recovery in tropical moist forests: Implications for restoration and altered stable states

5.30-7.30 PM Carlos C. Martínez Rivera, University of Missouri
Chemical and behavioral ecology of neotropical anurans: how do eggs, tadpoles and frogs interact with their ecosystem (including a field trip)

Tuesday June 3, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

8-9.30 AM Erich Grotewold, Ohio State University
Flavonoids: From regulation to sequestration

9.30-11 AM Eran Pichersky, University of Michigan
Plant volatiles: biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolution

11:00-11:30 AM Break

11.30-1 PM Tom Kursar, University of Utah
How have anti-herbivore defenses evolved within the genus Inga?

1-4 PM Lunch

4-5.30 PM Todd Michael, Rutgers University
Time-of-day expression atlas unravels conserved transcriptional networks

5.30-7 PM Carlos Garcia, University of Texas in San Antonio
Portable chemical sensors and biosensors

Wednesday June 4, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

8-10 AM Jennifer Dean, Penn State University
Plant-microbe interactions and effects on insect herbivores (including a field trip)

10-12 Patricia Alvarez, Rutgers University
Pathogens and endophytes in tropical ecosystems

1-4 PM Lunch

The Max Gunther DAAD Alumni Symposium

4-5 PM Thorsten Nürnberger, University of Tübingen, Germany
Signal perception in plant innate immunity

5-6 PM Axel Mithöfer and Stefan Bartram, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Volatile signaling in plant-herbivore interactions (provisional title)

6-7:30 PM Eric Cosio and Waltraud Kofer, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Chemical ecology in Tambopata: plant-ant interactions and volatile studies

Thursday June 5, 2008

7-8 AM Breakfast

Return to Puerto Maldonado and then travel back to Lima and abroad.