Station Linné på Öland arrangerar för tredje året i rad en workshop om insekter i Sverige, med stöd från SLU Artdatabanken och Entomologiska föreningen i Stockholm.

Datum 6-9 mars

Få platser kvar!

Mer info: 

https://www.stationlinne.se/sv/aktiviteter/workshop-sveriges-alla-insekter-2025/

Dear Colleagues, students, and friends,

Following the successful courses of the last two years, we are again offering an international course in floral morphology and angiosperm diversification in Berlin from the 28th July until the 8th of August 2025. 

The course is open to anyone interested in flowers and floral evolution or with an interest in plant systematics.

 
Please share this announcement with anyone you think might be interested.

This is the third version of a highly successful two-week workshop based at the Biological Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Berlin Botanical Garden. The workshop benefits from extensive facilities, including functional microscopy laboratories and a huge plant collection of more than 20,000 species. The course is set up as lecture-based, laboratory taught, and interactive visits of the living collections.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Final year undergraduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral and advanced researchers, professionals (but no formal restriction). A basic knowledge of botany is preferred but not essential.

COURSE INSTRUCTORS AND CONTACT:

Dr. Louis Ronse De Craene, Research Associate Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (l.ronsedecraene@gmail.com) Prof. Julien Bachelier, Freie Universität Berlin (julien.bachelier@fu-berlin.de)

REGISTRATION FEE:

€800 (€600 for Undergraduate and Master students)
(Registration includes coffee breaks, daily lunches with snacks, but does not include travel and

accommodation).

TO APPLY, PAY AND SECURE A PLACE:
visit https://www.conftool.net/berlin-summer-course-2025/
For further information please contact Dr. Louis Ronse De Craene (l.ronsedecraene@gmail.com).

PROGRAMME:
Course Description and outline:
This short course will introduce students to the structure and development of flowers, with a focus on floral diversity and evolution and the significance of flowers for systematics. Major plant families will be studied within the framework of the main lineages of seed plants to understand their evolution and diversification. Additionally, students will learn to analyse, describe, and study the structure of inflorescences, flowers, and fruits, and based on their observations, to identify the main evolutionary patterns underlying their tremendous morphological diversity, as well as their potential pollination and dispersal mechanisms.

Course objectives and learning outcomes:

Through this course students will acquire the following skills:

• guidelines to identifying plants using morphological characters in the context of the molecularclassification system.
• a better understanding of the origin and evolution of floral structures, including their importance forclassification, and of the main developmental patterns and evolutionary trends which underlie thetremendous diversity of reproductive structures.
• an ability to observe and recognise key characters through the study of live floral material and the buildingup of floral diagrams.
• Contents:

• Introduction to morphology of vegetative structures and flowers, inflorescence and flower structure(floral diagrams and formulas).
• Overview of major groups of flowering plants; major characteristics of Flowers and special attributes(phyllotaxis, aestivation, merism, symmetry, floral tubes and hypanthia).
• Floral evolution of the major clades of angiosperms with special emphasis on morphological adaptations and diversification.

The Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio – is running its annual course on DNA-barcoding – From Sequences to Species at NTNU from March 10-14. There are still available places and deadline for registration is January 17th. The course is aimed at PhD-students and early career researchers, but master students can apply and be admitted if there is space.

Please see course description for more information and how to apply.

Please share this 4+2 year research fellow opportunity in Marburg, 
Germany, with early career botanists who might be interested: 
https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/fe8c2d5de2055a0b6d79d07b0b7d3bb6aa3507650

Plant phylogenetics and evolution, ideally with an interest/focus on 
South American taxa. This is my current position, I’m happy to answer 
any question (I’m moving on to Stockholm, Sweden, early next year)!

Best – Jan

— 
Dr. Jan Hackel
Research Fellow
Biodiversity of Plants (AG Zizka)
Universität Marburg, Germany
https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb17/disciplines/biodiversity-of-plants/ag-zizka/team-1/dr-jan-hackel

26th YOUNG SYSTEMATISTS’ FORUM

Friday 15th November 2024, 9:30 am GMT

Location: ZOOM Online
Website: systass.org/young-systematists-forum/
Abstract deadline: 19th October 2024

The annual Young Systematists’ Forum represents an exciting setting for
Master’s students, PhD students and young postdoctoral researchers
to present their work, often for the first time, to a scientific
audience interested in taxonomy and systematics. This well-established
event provides an important opportunity for budding systematists to
discuss their research in front of their peers within a supportive
environment. Supervisors and other established systematists are also
encouraged to attend.

Prizes will be awarded for the most promising talk and flash presentation
as judged by a small panel on the day.

Registration is FREE:
https://systass.org/young-systematists-forum/

When you register you will be asked to supply your name, contact
information and tell us whether you wish to give a full talk or flash
presentation. Please also tell us your academic stage – e.g., Masters,
PhD or postdoc and affiliation. Abstract submission and registration
are separate portals, both on the YSF event page.

Abstracts must be submitted via the registration portal on our website
no later than Saturday, October 19th 2024 (11:59PM GMT+1). The body text
should not exceed 150 words in length. Title, authors, and their professional
affiliations/addresses should be included with the abstracts.

Spaces will be allocated subject to availability and for a balanced
programme of animal, plant, algal, microbial, molecular, and other
research. Non-presenting attendees are also very welcome – please register
as above.

If you have presented a talk at the YSF before, we ask that you submit
only for a flash presentation, as speaker slots are limited and we
want to give as many people a chance as possible. If you are a more
senior postdoc, please be aware that it’s unlikely we will be able to
give you a chance to present here, as the aim is to give more junior
researchers their first experience in a supportive international
setting.

All registered attendants will receive further information about
the meeting, including abstracts, by e-mail one week in advance. This
information will also be displayed on the Systematics Association website
(www.systass.org/young-systematists-forum/).

If you have questions, feel free to contact us at ysf@systass.org

Last year’s meeting was very dynamic, with wide international attendance
and great interactions.

We’re looking forward to meeting you online!

YSF 2024 Organising Team: Ellinor Michel, Ana Serra Silva, Kalman Konyves,
Peter Mulhair, Katie Collins, Karen Siu-Ting, Pablo Munoz-Rodriguez