53rd Annual Systematics Symposium at the Missouri Botanical Garden

[Alina Freire-Fierro]

        53rd Annual Systematics Symposium at the Missouri Botanical Garden:  "The Impact of Peter Raven on Evolutionary and Biodiversity Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries " 

        Speakers/Talks:
        DIANE CAMPBELL:  Pollinator shifts, pollinator losses, and floral evolution 
        PAUL EHRLICH:  Saving the World [After-dinner]
        ULRICH MUELLER: Coevolutionary principles of insect fungiculture: Lessons for human agriculture? 
        STEPHEN O'BRIEN: The moving landscape of comparative genomics in mammals
        CHRISTOPHER PIRES: Polyploidy and chromosomal evolution
        CRISTIÁN SAMPER: A Raven's Garden: building capacity for plant research and conservation
        BARBARA SCHAAL: Differentiation of Populations: gene flow redux  
        JUN WEN: Evolution of major patterns of plant disjunctions

        Dates: 13-14 October 2006 
        Location: Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
        Web Page: www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/symposium/register2006.shtml. 

        For more information, please contact the Symposium Organizer: Mick Richardson, Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A. Tel.: +1 (314)  577 5176, Fax: +1 (314)  577 0820, e-mail mick.richardson at mobot.org. Registration fee is 75 USD.  Please visit our website for updates.