Sunday, 28 October
6:00 pm          Reception at Robertson House
7:30 pm          Dinner at Robertson House
                     Jesse H. Ausubel, Rockefeller University, New York: Opening remarks: Telescopes,                      Microscopes, Macroscopes and DNA barcodes

Monday, 29 October
7:00-8:15 am   Breakfast at Robertson House
8:30-8:35 am   Jan A. Witkowski, Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor,                       New York: Introductory remarks
SESSION 1:    Overview of Barcode Data; Chair: David E. Schindel
8:45-9:05 am   David E. Schindel, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.:Linking barcoded data                       tomultiple users.
9:05-9:15 am   Discussion
9:15-9:35 am   Robert Hanner, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada:BARCODE data standard and trace                      analysis
9:35-9:45 am   Discussion
9:45-10:05 am Sujeevan Ratnasingham, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada: The Barcode Life Data                      Systems: An informatics platform for the biodiversity informatics community.
10:05-10:15 am Discussion
10:15-10:45 am Break
10:45-11:05 am Mehrdad Hajibabaei, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada: Minimalist barcode                        sequences.
11:05-11:15 am  Discussion
11:15-12:15 pm General Discussion
12:30 pm         Luncheon at Robertson House
SESSION 2:   Species Boundaries, Speciation Processes and Models; Chair: Richard G. Harrison,                      Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2:00-2:20 pm   Richard G. Harrison, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York: Multi-locus approaches to defining species boundaries.
2:20-2:30 pm   Discussion
2:30-2:50 pm   Mark Blaxter, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Defining and constructing MOTUs.
2:50-3:00 pm   Discussion
3:00-3:20 pm   Mark Stoeckle, Rockefeller University, New York: Insights from 10K Avian Barcodes       
3:20-3:30 pm   Discussion
3:30-4:00 pm   Break
4:00-4:20 pm   Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz, Germany: Sharing of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in                      circhlid fishes.
4:20-4:30 pm   Discussion
4:30-4:50 pm   Jody Hey, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey: Population assignment likelihoods                       in a phylogenetic and demographic model.
4:50-5:00 pm   Discussion
5:00-6:00 pm   General Discussion
6:15 pm          Reception at Robertson House
7:00 pm          Dinner of Robertson House

Tuesday, 30 October
7:00-8:15 am   Breakfast at Robertson House
SESSION 3:   Phylogeography, Community Evolutions, and The Use of Barcodes For                      Multi- Species Studies; Chair: Michel Veuille, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France:
8:30-9:00 am   Michel Veuille, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France: Can we extend intraspecific                       population genetics to community population genetics?
9:00-9:20 am   Discussion
9:20-9:50 am   Eldredge Bermingham, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of                       Panama: Phylogeography of Caribbean birds
9:50-10:00 am Discussion
10:00-10:30 am Break
10:30-10:50 am Graham Stone, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Beyond the barcode: setting our                        sites on reconstructing community evolution.
10:50-11:00 am Discussion
11:00-11:20 am L. Lacey Knowles, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Speciation history inferred from                        gene trees
11:20-11:30 am Discussion
11:30-12:30 pm General Discussion
12:45 pm          Luncheon at Robertson House
SESSION 4:   Selection On and Variation In Mitochondrial DNA Sequences; Chair: David M. Rand,                      Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2:00-2:20 pm   David M. Rand, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island: Barcodes and selection of                       mtDNA.
2:20-2:30 pm   Discussion
2:30-2:50 pm   Tim Barraclough, Imperial College London, Ascot, United Kingdom: Patterns of divergent                       selection from combined barcode and phenotypic data.
2:50-3:00 pm   Discussion
3:00-3:20 pm   Rasmus Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: Statistical approaches for DNA                       barcoding.
3:20-3:30 pm   Discussion
3:30-4:00 pm   Break
4:00-4:20 pm   Graham Wallis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Beyond the bar: roles for a                       million COI sequences in studies of molecular adaptation.
4:20-4:30 pm   Discussion
4:30-5:30 pm   General Discussion
6:00 pm          Reception at Robertson House
7:00 pm          Dinner at Robertson House

Wednesday, 31 October
7:00-8:15 am   Breakfast at Robertson House
SESSION 5:    Final Discussion of Conclusions, Recommendation and Action Items, Chair: David                       E. Schindel, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
8:30-11:00 am  Open discussion
12:30 pm         Luncheon at Robertson House
Afternoon departure

This meeting was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation