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EVOLUTION 150
WORKSHOP on "Evolutionary Biology: Evolution 150", celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's The Origin of the Species, Cuenca, Spain 15th - 19th March 2009
The British Council in Spain in collaboration with the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) is organising a series of scientific workshops to provide opportunities for researchers from the UK and Spain to meet face-to-face for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information on priority topics and to explore future areas of research and collaboration. The next workshop in this series, entitled Evolution 150, will cover the broad field of evolutionary biology and marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of Species".
For further details and an application form contact Rafael Zardoya or Peter Holland
Early to mid career researchers wishing to participate should send a completed application form and CV to before December 15, 2008.
Beyond Cladistics: A Festschrift for Chris Humphries
1st to 3rd of October 2008, at the Linnean Society
As an approach to the discovery of phylogenetic relationships among organisms, cladistics took the systematics community by storm. According to David Hull, in his 1988 account of its history, cladistics was winning out everywhere; according to Colin Patterson, cladistics "began in the late 1960s, accelerated in the 1970s, and was virtually complete by the eighties"; in contrast, Gareth Nelson suggested that cladistics is suffering from "Arrested Development". This symposium, entitled Beyond Cladistics, in honour of botanist Chris Humphries, will address some general issues relating to cladistics: its past, its present and its future - if, indeed, there is anything beyond cladistics itself.
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IV International Rubiaceae (Gentianales) Conference
October 19-24, 2008. Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
The "Instituto de Biologia, UNAM" and the "Instituto de Ecologia, A.C." are pleased to announce that the fourth Rubiaceae Conference will be held in the Clavijero Botanical Garden of the Institute of Ecology in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. This meeting will include papers and posters on the taxonomy, phylogeny and classification, morphology and anatomy, floristics, ecology and biogeography within Rubiaceae or other Gentianales. We particularly encourage students to submit the results of their work.
Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2008.
Please visit www.ibiologia.unam.mx/rubiaceas/index.htm
For further questions, contact
The First Systematics Association-Linnean Society Annual Lecture on Biodiversity Policy
10 April 2008 at the Linnean Society
Biodiversity in a changing world - building a science base to support policy
Prof. Georgina Mace, Imperial College (Silwood Park)
New pressures on biodiversity from climate change and land-use change continue to deplete natural species and communities, and lead to increased risks to people and the economy from environmental damage and loss of natural resources. Yet, despite widespread acceptance of this problem, we still rely on a biodiversity information base that is often patchy, opportunistic and lacks a coherent focus. In this talk I will discuss some ideas and current initiatives that could build on the scientific and research strengths in UK institutions, especially the universities, research institutes and museums, and provide a stronger framework for biodiversity science to support significant policy issues at national and international levels.
10th Symposium of the International Organization of Plant Biosystematists
2 - 4 July 2008
Evolution of Plants in Mountainous and Alpine Habitat
Vysoké Tatry Mts., Štrbské Pleso, Slovak Republic
You are cordially invited to Slovakia to Vysoke Tatry Mts., July 2008, to the next international IOPB symposium.
visit www.guarant.cz/iopb2008/ for further details
Assessing scientific opinion on character quality in phylogeny reconstruction
Dear Colleague,
My name is Josephine Hill and I am a Master's student in Biosystematics at The Natural History
Museum. I am inviting you participate in my first research project exploring character quality in
phylogeny reconstruction.
Recently, there has been much debate as to whether molecular, morphological and even behavioural information differ in quality. For example, does one type of character contain more 'homoplasy' or convergence than another type of character? As part of my first project I wish to survey the opinion of scientists from different fields of research as to whether molecular, morphological and behavioural information differ in quality. I hope the results will give me a greater understanding of any association between area of interest and the reasoning behind personal preference.
The survey date has now passed.
I thank you in advance and please contact me if you have any further queries regarding this study.
Yours sincerely
Josephine
Email:
Climate Change and Systematics
1st - 3rd September 2008
Call for oral and poster presentations
A meeting organised by the
Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
on behalf of the Systematics Association
and the Linnean Society
Please download a flier with further details
To receive subsequent circulars and participate in the meeting
Please complete the form available at http://www.tcd.ie/botany/ and return by email to:
Email: climate@tcd.ie
Subject: conference form
Organising Committee
T. Hodkinson, M. Jones, J. Parnell, S. Ní Sheoin, S. Waldren
Email: climate@tcd.ie
Address: Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Fax: +353-1-8961147
Phone: +353-1-8961274
Second round of CoSyst funding
The second round of CoSyst awards were made in March. A total of £74,445 was allocated.
SA response to House of Lords
February 2008: Response to the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee call for evidence: Systematics and taxonomy. Read submission
SYNTHESYS
The closing date for proposals has passed.
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