We look forward to welcoming you to the 2014 ASBS meeting at the Massey University campus in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Our theme for the meeting will be ‘Next-generation Systematics’ which includes approaching systematics from different perspectives, the use of new technologies, and even training the next generation of practicing systematists. We look forward to diverse presentations of projects from Australasia and around the world. ... [Information of the supplier]
Caryophyllales 2015 is an international conference focusing on the order Caryophyllales, attracting researcher specialised in e.g. the systematics, evolution and biogeography of this lineage of flowering plants. Besides bringing together the latest research developments, the conference will foment the Caryophyllales Network, which aims at joining forces for the elaboration of a global monographic synthesis of the order. Currently, about 50 scientists from more than 20 countries are expected to attend the meeting. ... [Information of the supplier]
Grasses feed the world and grasslands cover 20-40% of the planet. The grass family is one of the largest families of flowering plants with around 12,000 species. Grasses are more important for mankind than any other group of plants. Grasses have small flowering parts and complex floral morphology which is usually studied by dedicated specialists. Derek Clayton has been building a classification system for the grass family during his 56 years at Kew Gardens. He wrote the classic account Genera Graminum and went on to invent the world’s first electronic Flora and e-taxonomic system, GrassBase. GrassBase is a unique dataset of structured trait data maintained in the DELTA software system which is not supported on modern computers. Can GrassBase contribute to modern analyses and will it have use for future generations? How can grass trait data be mobilised? What are the possible connections between the study of grass diversity and other scientific disciplines? This meeting will bring together the global community of grass taxonomists to say thank you to Derek. The program will begin by exploring history and Gren Lucas, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, followed by Steve Renvoize, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will speak about Derek’s work. Rob Soreng from the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, will describe the recent advances in grass systematics and his work on the Catalogue of New World Grasses. Elizabeth Kellogg from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Missouri, will introduce Poaceae crop genomics and outline how the study of crops has helped us understand grass evolution. During the second part of the meeting we will explore the research uses of grass trait data and the significance of grass diversity for research into ecology, C4 photosynthesis, and breeding better crops. Confirmed speakers include Professor Peter Linder, University of Zurich, and Professor Colin Osborne, University of Sheffield. The meeting will conclude with presentations on descriptive taxonomic systems online and Maria Vorontsova, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will lead a discussion about the future for GrassBase. ... [Information of the supplier]
As agreed during the Caryophyllales 2015 conference in Berlin the next Caryophyllales conference will take place in Mexico in September 2018 and will be organised by our colleagues from the Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IBUNAM). [Information of the supplier]
BioSyst.EU 2013 - mit dem Motto "Global systematics!" - ist die gemeinsame Tagung der in BioSyst.EU zusammengeschlossenen europäischen Fachgesellschaften auf dem Gebiet Biologische Systematik. NOBIS Austria hat die Ehre, das zweite BioSyst.EU-Meeting vom 18. bis 22. Februar 2013 in Wien zu beherbergen und zu organisieren. Die Konferenz findet an der Universität Wien (Gebäude UZA II) und am Naturhistorischen Museum Wien statt. Die Jahrestagungen der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS) und des Network of Biological Systematics (NOBIS) Austria werden ebenfalls im Rahmen der BioSyst.EU 2013-Konferenz abgehalten. ... [Information des Anbieters, übersetzt und verändert]
We are happy to announce that 2013 is the 10 year anniversary of DNA barcoding and we plan to celebrate this milestone in Kunming, China. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ and Kunming Institute of Botany are pleased to be hosting this year’s conference. The conference will consist of four days of plenary and parallel sessions. Preconference events, such as discussion meetings focusing on advances in sequencing and informatics techniques will be held on the Sunday before the conference. There is also a Training Course associated with the conference (max 30 delegates). Past conferences have brought together participants from over 60 countries, including researchers, students, government officials, and representatives of NGOs and private companies. This year’s conference hosts, the Chinese Academy of Science and Kunming Institute of Botany, have provided a venue that hosts up to 500 participants. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 15th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS) will be held in concert with the 22nd International Symposium “Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology” of the German Botanical Society (DBG), March 24 - 27, 2014, on the campus of the Technische Universität Dresden. Expecting more than 400 participants, this joint conference will be conducted collaboratively by Prof. Dr. Uwe Fritz, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden and Prof. Dr. Christoph Neinhuis, Institute for Botany, TU Dresden. Main topics are ... Phylogenomics; Integrative Taxonomy / Phylogenetics, Systematics; Biogeography & Molecular Clocks; Morphology, Development & Evolution; Ethnobotany; Plant Form and Function / Biomechanics and Biomimetics; and Plant Animal Interaction. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
This three-day meeting of the Systematics Association will be held at the University of Oxford and comprises four thematic sessions and contributed papers (1 The value of long term monitoring plots for plant systematics and ecology in the tropics; 2 Comparative approaches to the origin of biodiversity; 3 Accelerating the pace of taxonomy; 4 Rooted in deep time: Palaeontological contributions to systematics). We will be using several locations throughout the University (Plant Sciences, Zoology & University Museum) for the symposia whereas accommodation and the conference dinner will be held at Christchurch College. This site provides information for the programme and for submitting abstracts for contributed papers. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Scientific Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference will be held from August 18 – 21, 2015 at the University of Guelph, one of Canada’s major life science universities. Guelph couples easy access to a major airport with the simple logistics of a small Canadian city, ensuring that conference participants will be able to focus on science. Since 2003, DNA barcoding has become the largest research program in biodiversity science, one examining all eukaryote kingdoms and spanning many nations. Reflecting the scope of the program, numerous major international collaborative projects are underway. The 6th Conference will sustain traditions established by the five earlier conferences; it will showcase the latest scientific achievements and socio-economic implications of work conducted by the DNA barcode research community. The theme of the 6th Conference, Barcodes to Biomes, signals the ongoing expansion of our community’s research agenda from studies on particular sets of species in particular places to work which is creating the capability to examine entire biotic assembles at local and global scales. ... [Information of the supplier]
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its 2015 annual conference 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference is Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global Biodiversity. Subprograms will include: Digitization, Semantic Technologies, Phyloinformatics, Outreach and Collaboration, ePublications, Trait Data, and Conservation informatics. ... [Information of the supplier]
