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.
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.
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)!
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.
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
Now you can register for Systematikdagarna in Gothenburg (18–19 November 2024). Systematikdagarna is a yearly conference on systematics arranged by the Swedish Systematists Association. The meeting is open for anyone interested in systematics; amateurs, working systematists, and users of systematics in any form.
Early Career stage participants are also welcome to the half day event Early Career Systematists in Sweden event on Sunday 17 November.
Swedish Taxonomy Initiative and ForBio course: Nomenclature codes in biology
What to consider when naming and describing taxa
An in-person course directly following the Swedish Conference “Systematikdagarna” in late November 2024
A three day course (Wed, 20 Nov – Fri, 22 Nov) at Göteborg Natural History Museum, following Systematikdagarna (Mon, 18 Nov – Tue, 19 Nov) at Göteborg University, Sweden
Time and place: Nov. 20, 2024 9:00 AM – Nov. 22, 2024 4:30 PM, Göteborg University, Sweden
Course scope:
The course will present an overview of the different nomenclature codes with special focus on the botanical-mycological-phycological (ICNafp), zoological (ICZN) and prokaryotes (ICNP) codes. Sessions will include lectures and exercises, and the participants will learn what is required for a name and a description as well as for the scientific work itself to be code-compliant.
Learning outcomes. Participants will acquire an understanding of:
– which are the existing nomenclature codes.
– the difference between nomenclature and taxonomy.
– what is a ”scientific name” and what is meant by authorship.
– what is a ”scientific work”.
– rules of nomenclature with special focus on proposing new scientific names.
– the differences between botanical and zoological nomenclature.
– implications of names and their practical use in biology/management/conservation including examples of issues with misidentifications, misspellings, changed combinations, synonymy, ethics, etc.
Target group: MSc students, PhD students, postdocs, researchers, consultants, government officials, museum staff with relevant background in biology.
Course language: English.
Course schedule: Not yet available.
Course fee: Free.
Registration: Please register here before 15th September
Teachers: Thomas Pape (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen), Micah Dunthorn (Natural History Museum, Oslo), Torbjörn Tyler (Lund University, Botanical collections).
Assignment and credits: The course is equivalent to 2 ECTS. Active participation is required for full credit. ForBio will provide certificates for those who attend the in-person section and successfully complete the course assignments.
See the following link for a Senior Scientist position / Head of the Botanical Garden at the University of Vienna. The deadline for applications is on September 9.
