Författararkiv: Magnus Popp

ForBio Course: Kelp communities – marine macroalgae and associated fauna and flora

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Dear all,

ForBio is organizing a course focusing on marine macroalgae and their associated fauna and flora.  The course includes field collection of samples, lectures on the identification of algae and major groups of associated fauna (e.g. molluscs, polychates, crustaceans) as well as specialist lead identification sessions on the collected material.

The course will take place Jul 23 – Aug 1, 2014 at Espegrend Marine Biological Station in Bergen, Norway.

You can find out more about the course and instructions on how to register for it on the ForBio website:
http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/macroalgae.html

I’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have about the course or participation.

Hope to see you in Bergen!

Aino

Aino Hosia
Researcher, ForBio Coordinator
University Museum of Bergen, Natural History Collections
University of Bergen
Postboks 7800, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway
email: aino.hosia@um.uib.no
tel: +47-55582963, +47-92467311

ForBio annual meeting 2014

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Dear all,

We are happy to announce the ForBio annual meeting 2014 that will be held February 24 – 26, 2014 at the Tromsø University Museum.

The goal of ForBio annual meetings is to bring together prominent scientists from a variety of fields and backgrounds working in biosystematics with ForBio members, associates, and their supervisors. Leading international experts from various fields will give plenary lectures, and we invite our members and associates to use this meeting as an opportunity to present and discuss their own research. The meeting is open to anyone interested in biosystematics and ForBio members presenting their research (oral or poster) will get their travel and accommodation costs covered.

To find more information about the meeting and to register please visit the meeting website: http://forbioannualmeeting2014.weebly.com/

We hope to see you in Tromsø!

ForBio/Sergei V. Drovetski

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Dear all,

ForBio has the pleasure to inform you that we can fund participation in the following courses for our members:

Geometric Morphometrics with Plants organized by ’Transmitting Science’

The course will take place April 21-27, 2014  in Barcelona, Spain.

This course offers a self-contained introduction to geometric morphometrics with a special focus on applications in plant evolution and development. Recommended course credits is 2 ECTS.

For registration and more information about the course see here: http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/gm/gm-and-plants/

If you are interested register for the course as soon as possible as places are limited to 20 participants and will be occupied by strict registration order. Contact Heidi Solstad (heidi.solstad@ntnu.no) for more information on ForBio funding.

DEST course: Botanical Nomenclature

The course will take place Januar 27-31, 2014, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.

This in-depth course will teach the principles of plant nomenclature according to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (ICN) so that participants can apply good nomenclatural practice when undertaking taxonomic revisions, compiling checklists etc.

For registration and more information about the course see here: http://www.taxonomytraining.eu/content/botanical-nomenclature-2

Application deadline: October 17, 2013.

Contact Heidi Solstad (heidi.solstad@ntnu.no) for more information on ForBio funding.

Best regards,

Heidi

ForBio taxonomy travel grants

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Dear all,

ForBio arranges courses to train new taxonomists, but for some organism groups the number of interested students is too small for a full-scale course to be worthwhile. In those cases ForBio can fund collaboration between ForBio members and taxonomic experts. These funds aim to allow the student to work with particular collections, to learn new preparation techniques directly from the expert, and to discuss taxonomic problems with a group of people with similar scientific focus but situated at another institution.

ForBio will fund members (PhDs and postdocs only) who will benefit from such collaboration for a stay of one to five weeks at the institute of the expert.

The grant covers costs for travel and provides a weekly allowance of 2600 NOK towards accommodation or other costs. Please note that we have a limited budget for travel grants and we will prioritize grant applications based on the scientific quality of the planned work and on how the collaboration is going to help the applicant’s scientific project.

You can apply here: http://www.forbio.uio.no/travel-grant/

Best regards,

Heidi

ForBio course: Introduction to phylogenetic methods

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Dear all,

The Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio – invites to the course ”Introduction to phylogenetic methods”.

The course will take place November 4 – 8, 2013 at the University of Bergen.

This course aims primarily at students who will do phylogenetic computation in their thesis work, but who have no hands-on experience with some of the more frequently used software applications. Introductory lectures will cover topics such as properties of data and trees, models of evolutionary change, phylogenetic signal, model testing, and hypothesis testing. The students will learn how to prepare their data, explore the properties of the data, how to use distance, parsimony, likelihood and Bayesian methods in computation.

Please note that external students are required to study electronic course material in order to prepare for the computing class in November. The intensive computer lab (Nov 4-8) is at University of Bergen, Norway.

More information about the course and how to apply can be found at http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2013/phylo_intro.html.

Application deadline is September 26, 2013.
Contact person: Christiane Todt Christiane.Todt@um.uib.no
Course leader: Endre Willassen Endre.Willassen@um.uib.no

 

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ForBio/Magnus

ForBio course: Introduction to RADseq bioinformatics

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Dear all,
The Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio – invites to the course ”Introduction to RADseq bioinformatics”.
The course will take place October 7-11, 2013 at the the Natural History Museum and the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo.
Restriction site Associated DNA (RAD) sequencing, along with advances in sequencing technology, is making it feasible to obtain genome scale data not only from model organisms, but also from species without available genomic resources. The course will introduce the participants to Stacks, a bioinformatic pipeline for analyzing RADseq data, and how to extract data for further analyzes.
Application deadline: September 11, 2013.
More information about the course and how to apply can be found at www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2013/radseqII.html
The course is arranged by the Research school in biosystematics – ForBio. There is no course fee, and PhD students  and postdocs registered at Norwegian, Danish, or Swedish universities can become ForBio members and will then have travel and accommodation costs covered. See www.forbio.uio.no/membership/ for information about ForBio and membership.
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ForBio/Magnus

ForBio course: Phylogeographic methods

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Time and place:
Sep 16, 2013 12:00 PM – Sep 24, 2013 05:00 PM, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Extended deadline: first come, first serve!

Teachers: Dorothee Ehrich (University of Tromsø) and Andreas Tribsch (University of Salzburg)

Phylogeography combines phylogeny with biogeography and investigates the geographic distribution of intra- or interspecific genetic variation. In this course we will introduce the theoretical basis of phylogeography, genetic markers used, and data analysis. The main part will be a computer course in analyzing and interpreting phylogeographic data. We will start with basic analyses and introduce more advanced methods. The course is also meant to be a workshop, where it will be possible to discuss concepts, ideas and analyses, so participants are encouraged to bring their own data to analyse. Participants will also receive a number of scientific articles on the topic to study before the course.

Contact Sergei Drovetski (sdrovetski@gmail.com) for registration. Find more information at www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2013/phylogeography.html

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ForBio course: Introduction to Bioinformatics for Biosystematics

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Dear all,

The Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio – invites to the course
”Introduction to Bioinformatics for Biosystematics”.

Basic programming skills are becoming essential for handling large datasets and
performing complex analyses in biosystematics. This course aims to provide the
students with tools to solve practical problems often encountered in
biosystematic research. Course topics include Python, R, and SQL. An
introduction is arranged in connection with the course for participants without previous
experience of GNU/Linux and Bash.

Place and time: Natural History Museum, Oslo, Norway; September 16-20, 2013.
GNU/Linux and Bash introduction September 14-15, 2013.

Application deadline is August 4, 2013.

More information about the course and how to apply can be found at
www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2013/

The course is arranged by the Research school in biosystematics – ForBio. There
is no course fee, and PhD students/postdocs registered at Norwegian, Danish, or
Swedish  universities can become ForBio members and will then have travel
accommodation costs covered. For information about ForBio and membership etc,
please see www.forbio.uio.no/membership/

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ForBio/Magnus

ForBio: Mycology field course

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Dear all,

University of Oslo and ForBio are offering a field course focusing on the fungal diversity of eastern Norway. The two main aims of the course are to acquire more knowledge about fungal diversity, fungistics and systematics, and learn to use literature, stereomicroscope and microscopy to identify fungi based on micro- and macroscopic characters. We will also focus on the species ecology and phylogenetic relationships.

More information about the course and how to register can be found at http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2013/mycology.html

Time: September 16-20, 2013.
Application deadline: July 31.

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ForBio/Magnus

ForBio course: Introduction to RADseq

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The Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio – invites to the lab course
”Introduction to RADseq”

Restriction site Associated DNA (RAD) has recently made it possible to obtain
genome scale sequence data not only from model organisms, but also from species
without available genomic resources. RADseq techniques can be used to
address questions in a wide range of applications in biosystematics such as SNP
discovery and genotyping, genotype-phenotype association mapping, linkage
mapping, QTL analysis, hybridization and gene flow analysis, and population
genetics. More recently, RADseq data has also been used to address problems in
phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies by utilizing information from linked
SNPs in “mini-contigs” obtained from paired end sequencing. This is a
flexible method for people looking to work on both model and non-model
organisms.

The course will take place June 3-7, 2013 and use the RADseq platform at
Blindern, University of Oslo, Norway.

Application deadline is May 5, 2013.

More information about the course and how to apply can be found at
www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2013/radseq.html

The course is arranged by the Research school in biosystematics – ForBio. There
is no course fee, and PhD students/postdocs registered at Swedish, Danish, or
Norwegian universities can become ForBio members and will then have travel and
accomodation costs covered by ForBio. For information about ForBio and
membership etc, please see www.forbio.uio.no/membership/

More information about ticket refunds etc will be sent out after the
application deadline.

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ForBio/Magnus