講座人: 劉志偉 教授

講座時間：10:00

講座日期：2018-07-07

講座地點(diǎn)：長安校區(qū) 格物樓3135會議室

講座內(nèi)容簡介：

While traditional descriptive fields of biology have discovered much of the patterns of life on earth, a comparative approach is needed to understand the underlying mechanisms and processes that have shaped these patterns. The rebirth of phylogenetics and the maturation of its methodology since the 60s through 80s of the last century have made tree thinking a unifying theme in current biology. Using the wasp superfamily Cynipoidea as an example, the seminar will showcase how phylogenetic studies on the group in the last three decades, using morphology, molecular data, as well as fossil materials, have established an natural framework for future systematic studies and provided insight into the evolution of some fascinating life history strategies of these wasps, including host specificity, gall formation, inquilinism, and parasitism.

講座人簡介：

劉志偉，美國東伊利諾伊大學(xué)生物學(xué)系教授。主要研究領(lǐng)域是昆蟲的系統(tǒng)分類，研究方向包括膜翅目和直翅目的形態(tài)與分子鑒定，現(xiàn)有昆蟲分類系統(tǒng)的訂正等。以第一作者或通訊作者在Annals of the Entomological Society of America，Systematic Entomology，Molecular Ecology Resources，Insect Science，Zootaxa 等雜志發(fā)表SCI論文50余篇。參與編著了多本昆蟲分類學(xué)專著。現(xiàn)任Society for the Study of Evolution，The Orthopterists' Society，Entomological Society of North America的專業(yè)評審。擔(dān)任Cladistics，Annals of the Entomological Society of America，Conservation Genetics，Insect Systematics and Evolution，Systematic Entomology，Zootaxa等20余種的動物學(xué)專業(yè)雜志審稿人。