[Taxacom] Biennial Conference of the Systematics Association

[Elspeth Haston]

Biennial Conference of the Systematics Association

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK

28 - 31 August 2007

Closing date for registration and submission of abstracts: 30th June 2007

Follow the link for further details and registration: 

www.systass.org/biennial2007

**Please note that accommodation books up quickly in Edinburgh during the summer**


Meeting information
The Biennial conferences of the Systematics Association provide a forum for systematists to present and discuss their research. The format will be a mixture of both open sessions and focused thematic symposia. 

Open sessions
Contributed papers can be on any topic in systematics. We especially encourage talks and posters from research students and younger post-doctoral fellows.

Thematic sessions
Speciation (organisers Richard Abbott and Pete Hollingsworth)
Speakers:  Jim Mallet (UC London); Alfried Vogler (Imperial London); Nick Barton (Edinburgh); Christian Lexer (Kew); H Peter Comes (Salzburg); Mike Ritchie (St Andrews); Roger Butlin (Sheffield); John Willis (Duke); Salvatore Cozzolino (Naples); Simon Hiscock (Bristol); Chris Jiggins (Cambridge); Peter Linder (Zurich)

Floras and Faunas: Descriptive Taxonomy Serving Biodiversity (organisers: Mark Watson and Christopher Lyal)
Speakers include: Bill Baker (Kew); Steve Brooks (NHM London); Ben Collen (Institute of Zoology London); Jane Conner (Timber Press); Jan Dick (CEH Edinburgh); Tony Gutierrez (US Government); Christoph Häuser (SMN Stuttgart); Donald Holbern (GBIF); Stephen Jury (Reading); Sandy Knapp (NHM London); Della Lindsay (Kew); Chris Lyal (NHM London); Tony Miller (RBG Edinburgh); Dave Minter (CABI); Rod Page (Glasgow); Alan Paton (Kew); Mark Watson (RBG Edinburgh); Anna Weitzman (Smithsonian Institute).
Also included, an evening session with demonstrations of projects and systems.

UK Research Councils Systematics Symposium (organisers Amanda Read, Sarah Collinge and Pete Hollingsworth) 
Speakers: Sandie Baldauf (York); Mark Wilkinson (NHM London); Roger Thorpe (Bangor); Tim Littlewood (NHM London); Lee Hastie (Aberdeen); Malcolm Scoble (NHM London)

'How-to' lectures on emerging technologies and techniques:
Putting time back into molecular phylogenetics (Andrew Rambaut, Edinburgh)
Geophylogenies: threading evolutionary graphs through earth history (David Kidd, NESCent, Durham NC)
Evo-devo of non-model organisms (Catherine Kidner RBG Edinburgh)


Meeting Sponsors: Systematics Association, Linnean Society, Genetics Society, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council


Dr E M Haston 
Assistant Curator 
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 
20a Inverleith Row 
Edinburgh  EH3 5LR 
Tel: 00 44 (0)131 248 2816 
Fax: 00 44 (0)131 248 2901 
E-mail: e.haston at rbge.org.uk