[Taxacom] Annual Systematics Symposium, Missouri Botanical Garden

[Jim Solomon]

60th Annual Systematics Symposium

Missouri Botanical Garden

October 11-12, 2013

www.mobot.org/symposium

 

Phylogeny meets Ecology: patterns of diversity, community assembly, and niche evolution

 

AGENDA:

Friday 7:30-9:30 p.m.  Informal mixer in Ridgway Center

Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.  Scientific program and meals in Ridgway Center

 

SPEAKERS:

Jeremy Beaulieu (NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, http://www.jeremybeaulieu.org/)

     Exploring the evolution of a very old and widespread angiosperm clade

 

Jeannine Cavender-Bares (University of Minnesota, http://www.cbs.umn.edu/lab/cavender)

     Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the deep footprint of evolution on modern-day communities

 

Jonathan Davies (McGill University, http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/davies/research.html)

     Predicting phenology from phylogeny

 

Tiffany Knight (Washington University, http://biology4.wustl.edu/faculty/knight/research.html)

     Integrating phylogeny, spatial scale and ecology to understand the causes and consequences of plant invasions

 

Hafiz Maherali (University of Guelph, http://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/people/faculty/maherali.shtml)

     An exploration of pattern and process in the evolutionary history of the mycorrhizal symbiosis

 

Dave Tank (University of Idaho, http://phylodiversity.net/dtank/Tank_Lab/Research.html)

      Alien encounters of the floral kind: deconstructing Darwin's Naturalization Hypothesis

 

Sebasti?n Tello (Missouri Botanical Garden, https://sites.google.com/site/jsebastiantello/)

     The evolutionary and ecological assembly of a tropical flora along an elevational gradient in the Andes

 

Amy Zanne (The George Washington University, http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/biology/people/166)

     It's getting cold out there: Evolution of freezing tolerance and growth form in angiosperms

 

Registration fee for Symposium:     $50.00

Optional fee for Saturday dinner:     $75.00

 

For further information, contact:

Peter C. Hoch (peter.hoch at mobot.org)

Missouri Botanical Garden

P.O. Box 299

St. Louis, MO 63166-0299

Tel: 314 577 5175

Fax: 314 577 0820