[Taxacom] ICSEB Congress extended registration deadline until 31 May 2009

[Josef Greimler]

Dear colleagues,



SPECIAL NOTICE: The swine flu outbreak has caused legitimate concern
regarding attendance at ICSEB7 in July. The organizing committee, in close
contact with our Mexican colleagues, strongly believe that the viral
population will rise, peak, and fall before our congress. So far no cases of
swine flu have been reported from Veracruz. Of the cases reported in Mexico
City, these are from among the more than 20 million persons living there.
The level of infection, therefore, is actually very low.


Please register, send in your abstract, and make hotel reservations as you
have planned. If the swine flu problem worsens and persists, hence making it
advisable to cancel ICSEB7, we will so indicate on the homepage and refund
in full any monies that have been sent to us. We do not anticipate that this
will happen, however.



In view of the present difficult circumstances, we are extending the
registration deadline until 31 May 2009. In this way we can all monitor the
health situation carefully in the weeks ahead.

The International Organization of Systematic
and Evolutionary Biology (IOSEB)

announces the

VII International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, ICSEB 7

"Extending the Darwinian Panorama"

Veracruz, Mexico
5-10 July 2009

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth




Josef Greimler
University of Vienna, Faculty Center Biodiversity

Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
A-1030 Vienna, Rennweg 14

AUSTRIA
Tel. 0043 1 4277-54145

Fax 0043 1 4277-9541
josef.greimler at univie.ac.at