1st ASA Conference 2012 Pakse, Laos
1st ASA Conference
Conference Details
12 – 15 November 2012
Pakse, Champasak Province, Laos
Welcome to Pakse, Laos
It is a pleasure for us to welcome you to the Symposium “Spiders of the Greater Mekong Region” in Laos. This first meeting in this region is intended to bring arachnologists together to exchange their results and to facilitate future collaborations. It was planned in the year 2012 also as a preparative meeting for the first International Congress of Arachnology in Asia (Taiwan, Kenting, 23.–28.6.2013).
In Pakse, we found a nice venue at the banks of the river Mekong and close to habitats for a post-symposium workshop. The first part —three days of presentations, poster sessions and discussions— will be attended by more than 50 colleagues from fifteen countries. In the second part at Tad Etu, more than 30 persons will search for spiders, take photos, identify and, again, discuss results.
We hope that all participants will enjoy their time in Laos and gain valuable experiences. Since it is the first time we have organised such a meeting in Laos we apologise if everything does not flow smoothly. We try to help wherever we can, so do not hesitate to contact us during the meeting.
At this point we would like to thank Dr Emma Shaw for kindly polishing abstracts and other texts linguistically, and Gerry Duckitt for helping in organising on-site issues! We also thank BIOPAT e.V. (Germany) for their generous financial support in covering travel grants, local transport and venue costs.
We are looking forward to meeting you all in person and wish you a good time in Laos,
Oral Presentations
- The wolf spider Pardosa sp. as a model for invertebrate developmental neurobiology
Noraishah Mydin Abdul-Aziz, Kamil-Ali Obeid Braima, Mustakiza Muslimin, John Jeffery, Amir-Ridhwan Mohd-Ghazali, Y.L. Lau & M. Rohela - Ecology and distribution of spiders in Lonar crater sanctuary from India.
Atul Bodkhe - Diversity of spiders in tropical urban habitats
Yixiong Cai, Ngan Ching Wan, David Court - Diversity of spiders in a secondary forest and agricultural area, Nan province, Thailand.
Narin Chomphuphuang, Sureerat Deowanish, Natapot Warrit - Phylogenetic analysis of some Oxyopidae and Pisauridae from Central India (Araneae, Lycosoidea): an in silico approach
Priyanka Hadole - Spider dynamics in thorn forest and grassland ecosystem of Solapur, Maharashtra, India
Rajshekhar Hippargi - Spiders of Laos — a 10 years update
Peter Jäger & Bounthob Praxaysombath - Spiders of Laos
Peter Jäger & Bounthob Praxaysombath - Diversity and population density of spiders in banana field ecosystem from India
Seema Keswani - Antlike jumping spiders of Borneo
Peter Koomen - Biodiversity of spiders from Radhanagari Wild Life Sanctuary, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
Lazarus Lanka - Improving the informatic value of diverse tropical arthropod inventories with digital images and DNA barcodes
Jeremy Miller & Pham Dinh Sac - A survey of the trap door spider genus Liphistius in peninsular Malaysia
Nurul Syuhadah Mohammad Dzarawi & Rosli Hashim - Non-intrusive spider photography techniques
Amir-Ridhwan Mohd-Ghazali, Kamil Ali Obeid Braima, Mustakiza Muslimin, John Jeffery, Y.L. Lau, M. Rohela & Noraishah Mydin Abdul-Aziz - Highland spiders in Malaysia
Amir-Ridhwan Mohd-Ghazali, O.B. Kamil-Ali, M. Muslimin, J .Jeffery, Y.L. Lau, M. Rohela & N.M. Abdul-Aziz - Genetics of Malaysian spiders
Mustakiza Muslimin, Amir-Ridhwan Mohd-Ghazali, Kamil Ali Obeid Braima, John Jeffery, W.S. Wan-Yusoff, D. Li, Y. Norma-Rashid, M. Rohela, & Noraishah Mydin Abdul-Aziz - Spider fauna of Vietnam with a special reference to Mesothelae
Hirotsugu Ono - The effects of rubber plantation-forest edge on the composition of understorey web-building spiders at Khuan Khao Wang Forest Park, Songkhla Province, Southern Thailand
Booppa Petcharad, Sunthorn Sotthibhundhu, Sara Bumrungsri & George A. Gale - Spiders from Khao Chon, Takhli, Nakhonsawan Province
Suwattanachai Phomprasith - Diversity of spiders along an altitudinal gradient in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, western Himalaya.
Shazia Quasin & V.P.Uniyal - A technique for long term in-situ monitoring of tropical Theraphosidae
Emma M. Shaw - Recent advances in mygalomorph studies in India
Manju Siliwal - Diversity and spatio-temporal turnover of spider communities in Indonesian cacao agro-forestry systems
Kathrin Stenchly - Araneomorphae from India
Ganesh Vankhede - Relationships of spiders and their environments: cases in agro-ecosystems
Patchanee Vichitbandha
Poster Presentations
- Cadherins of Malaysian spiders
Kamil Ali Obeid Braima - Research status on Chernetidae of China (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)
Zhizhong Gao & Feng Zhang - Spider diversity in malaria endemic area — the search for the arachnid predator of malarial vector in Peninsula Malaysia.
John Jeffery, Amir-Ridhwan Mohd-Ghazali, Kamil Ali Obeid Braima, Mustaliza Muslimin, Y.L. Lau, M. Rohela, & Noraishah Mydin Abdul-Aziz - Exploration of arachnofaunal diversity from Warora Taluka, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra State, India
Mrunal Kale, Arvind Sawane - Diversity of spiders in agro-ecosystems
Seema Keswani & Priyanka Hadole - Database of South East Asian jumping spiders
Peter Koomen - New species of Perania (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae) from Central and North East Thailand
Ondrej Kosulic, Patchanee Vichitbandha, Wimolwan Chotwong, Prasit Wongprom & Peter Schwendinger - The diversification and classification of spiders within the Petch-Thong Cave, Thailand
Arinchai Nilsonti & Suwattanachai Phomprasith - A new species of the spider genus Oilinyphia (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Thailand
Booppa (Ponksee) Petcharad & Akio Tanikawa - On Lyrognathus robustus in Malaysia (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
Mogana Sundram S. Arumugam - Exploration of arachnofaunal diversity from Warora Taluka, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra State, India
Arvind Sawane, Mrunal Kale - Youth activity of spider hunting for science exploration skill in His Majesty The King Insect Park, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Patchanee Vichitbandha, Ondrej Kosulic, Narin Chomphuphuang, Prasit Wongprom, Cholakan Nuansuwon, Wannisa Muangmanee, Wisarut Sereenirach - A preliminary survey for the riparian spiders of central Mekong River, Thailand
Prasit Wongprom - The spider genera Khorata and Pholcus from China (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Zhiyuan Yao & Shuqiang Li - Taxonomy of Laniatores from China (Arachnida: Opiliones)
Chao Zhang & Feng Zhang
