Early registration deadline (29 February) for International Botanical Congress (July 2024)

Dear colleagues;

This is a reminder that the deadline for Early Registration for the International Botanical Congress is coming up soon: 29 February; 2024. Be sure to register before the “early bird” deadline!

Please see the Congress website for the latest news and the registration page:https://ibcmadrid2024.com/index.php.

The Congress website also has information about invited speakers; accommodations; excursions; the Nomenclature Section; and much more.

See you in Madrid!

Patrick Herendeen; Chair

International Association for Botanical and Mycological Societies

Kallelse till årsmöte med Svenska systematikföreningen/Invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the Swedish Systematics Association

Uppdaterad version 25 oktober, med tillägg av punkten 7 i dagordningen (ändring av stadgar).

(English below. Updated version 25 October, with an added agenda item 7, changing of the statutes)

Tidpunkt och plats

Tisdag 28 november 2022 klockan 11, Ekologihuset, Lunds universitet, Sölvegatan 37, Lund. Årsmötet hålls i samband med Systematikdagarna 2023.

Dagordning

  1. Mötet öppnas
  2. Val av mötesordförande, mötessekreterare och två justeringspersoner
  3. Fråga om mötet blivit i behörig ordning utlyst
  4. Styrelsens årsberättelse inklusive ekonomisk berättelse
  5. Revisionsberättelse
  6. Fråga om ansvarsfrihet för styrelsen för föregående års förvaltning
  7. Ändring av föreningens stadgar för att inkludera en 6:e medlem i styrelsen. Denna medlem ska representera systematiker som är i början av sin karriär.
  8. Val av ordförande för föreningen
  9. Val av övriga styrelseledamöter
  10. Val av en revisor och en revisorssuppleant
  11. Val av valberedning på tre personer
  12. Fastställande av eventuell årsavgift
  13. Ärenden, som styrelsen förelägger årsmötet
  14. Övriga frågor som med motivering inkommit till styrelsen senast fyra veckor innan årsmötet
  15. Mötet avslutas

Passa också gärna på att bli medlem, för att stödja föreningen! Avgiften för 2023/2024 är 100 kr (gratis för grundutbildningsstudenter).

Väl mött!

Styrelsen

Invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the Swedish Systematics Association

Date and place

Tuesday 28 November 2022 at 11:00, Ekologihuset, Lunds universitet, Sölvegatan 37, Lund. The meeting will take place during Systematikdagarna 2023.

Agenda:

  1. Meeting opens
  2. Election of meeting chair, meeting secretary and two attestors
  3. Question: has the meeting been advertised according to the statutes
  4. The board’s yearly report, including financial report
  5. Auditor’s report
  6. Question about discharge of liability for the board for the previous year’s administration
  7. Changes to the associations statues to allow a 6th member of the board, representing an early career systematist
  8. Election of chairman of the association
  9. Election of other members of the board
  10. Election of one auditor and one deputy auditor
  11. Election of nomination committee consisting of 3 persons
  12. Decision on annual membership fee (if any)
  13. Other matters which the board submits to the meeting
  14. Other matters submitted to the board at least 4 weeks prior to the meeting
  15. Meeting ends

You are very welcome to become a member to support the association! The fee for 2023/2024 is 100 SEK (free for nongraduate students).

Welcome!

The board

Kallelse till årsmöte med Svenska systematikföreningen/Invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the Swedish Systematics Association

(English below)

Tidpunkt och plats

Måndag 21 november 2022 klockan 16, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Frescativägen 40, Stockholm. Årsmötet hålls i samband med Systematikdagarna 2022.

Dagordning

  1. Mötet öppnas
  2. Val av mötesordförande, mötessekreterare och två justeringspersoner
  3. Fråga om mötet blivit i behörig ordning utlyst
  4. Styrelsens årsberättelse inklusive ekonomisk berättelse
  5. Revisionsberättelse
  6. Fråga om ansvarsfrihet för styrelsen för föregående års förvaltning
  7. Val av ordförande för föreningen
  8. Val av övriga styrelseledamöter
  9. Val av en revisor och en revisorssuppleant
  10. Val av valberedning på tre personer
  11. Fastställande av eventuell årsavgift
  12. Ärenden, som styrelsen förelägger årsmötet
  13. Övriga frågor som med motivering inkommit till styrelsen senast fyra veckor innan årsmötet
  14. Mötet avslutas

Passa också gärna på att bli medlem, för att stödja föreningen! Avgiften för 2022/2023 är 100 kr (gratis för grundutbildningsstudenter).

Väl mött!

Styrelsen

Invitation to the Annual General Meeting of the Swedish Systematics Association

Date and place

Monday 21 November 2022 at 16:00, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (Swedish Museum of Natural History), Frescativägen 40, Stockholm. The meeting will take place during Systematikdagarna 2022.

Agenda:

  1. Meeting opens
  2. Election of meeting chair, meeting secretary and two attestors
  3. Question: has the meeting been advertised according to the statutes
  4. The board’s yearly report, including financial report
  5. Auditor’s report
  6. Question about discharge of liability for the board for the previous year’s administration
  7. Election of chairman of the association
  8. Election of other members of the board
  9. Election of one auditor and one deputy auditor
  10. Election of nomination committee consisting of 3 persons
  11. Decision on annual membership fee (if any)
  12. Other matters which the board submits to the meeting
  13. Other matters submitted to the board at least 4 weeks prior to the meeting
  14. Meeting ends

You are very welcome to become a member to support the association! The fee for 2022/2023 is 100 SEK (free for nongraduate students).

Welcome!

The board

Call for Symposia, IBC 2024 (Madrid)

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Two years ahead of the XX International Botanical Congress, we are pleased to launch the Call for Symposia. We encourage researchers worldwide to submit symposium proposals on a variety of topics through the IBC website. The call for symposia will remain open until December 30th, 2022. Symposia constitute a very important component of the XX IBC, please submit a proposal and help shape the meeting’s program! Also note that diversity of speakers in terms of gender, career stage, and geography will be one of the criteria for selecting proposals. Symposium proposals that bridge two or more of the 31 proposed topics, including novel views and/or multi-disciplinary research perspectives, are especially encouraged.

Best regards,

The Organizing Committee of the XX IBC.

Call for symposia

Proposal submission now available! The scientific committee will evaluate symposium proposals based on potential audience interest, scientific quality, and diversity of speakers in terms of gender, career stage, and geography, among others. Symposium proposals that bridge two or more of the 31 proposed topics, including novel views and/or multi-disciplinary research perspectives are especially encouraged. We will make an effort to accept as many proposals as possible. Each symposium will last for 2 hours and will consist of six 20-minute oral communications (15 min presentations + 5 min Q&A). To maximize the interchangeability of participants among concurrent symposia, changes to this schedule will not be allowed. Deadline for symposium proposals 30 December 2022. Proposal Submission

Topics

  1. Agroforestry Systems
  2. Bioinformatics
  3. Biogeography / Phylogeography
  4. Botanical History
  5. Bryology
  6. Comparative Genomics / Transcriptomics
  7. Conservation Biology
  8. Crops and Wild Relatives
  9. Development and Structure
  10. Ecology and Plant Communities
  11. Ecophysiology
  12. Education and Outreach
  13. Ethnobotany
  14. Floristics
  15. Functional Genetics
  16. Global Change Ecology
  17. Hybrids and Hybridization
  18. Mycology and Lichenology
  19. Macroevolution
  20. Paleobotany / Archaeobotany
  21. Phycology
  22. Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics
  23. Physiology
  24. Plant, Animal, and Microbe Interactions
  25. Plant Biotechnology
  26. Palynology
  27. Population Genetics
  28. Pteridology
  29. Restoration Ecology
  30. Reproductive Biology
  31. Systematics  

Conference on eDNA and metabarcoding in Trondheim, Norway

We welcome participants to the BIOSCAN NOReDNA Conference, November 9-10, 2022: https://norbol.org/bioscan2022/

The aim of the conference is to bring together national researchers and stakeholders, as well as relevant Nordic partners and world leaders in this field to share experiences and encourage implementation of validated eDNA methods in research, management and regulation. The conference will be a meeting point for 110 participants and a venue to share current research, experience, standardization progress, biodiversity management and more that use eDNA and DNA metabarcoding.


Invited speakers are:
Sophie Arnaud-Haond, University of Montpellier, France
Kristine Bohmann, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gentile Francesco Ficetola, University of Milan, Italy
Tomas Roslin, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden


Registration for the BIOSCAN – NOReDNA Conference is free of charge and includes lunches and conference dinner. Participants book their own travel and accommodation.
Extended deadline for registration: August 1, 2022


Looking forward to see you in Trondheim!

Torbjørn Ekrem
For the Organizing Committee

Invitation to the Zoologica Scripta Symposium on ’The Role of Systematics for Understanding Ecosystem Functions’

On behalf of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Editors of the Zoologica Scripta, you are kindly invited to Zoologica Scripta Symposium on ’The Role of Systematics for Understanding Ecosystem Functions’

Time: 25.08.2022 09.30 – 25.08.2022 17.00

Place: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Drammensveien 78, 0271 Oslo

Confirmed keynote speakers are:

  • Dr. Cecilia Lindblad, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
  • Dr. Hugo de Boer, University of Oslo, Natural History Museum
  • Dr. Veronika Johansson, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics
  • Dr. Torsten H. Struck, University of Oslo, Natural History Museum
  • Dr. Niklas Wahlberg, Lund University
  • Dr. Maarten Vanhove, Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences
  • Dr. Dieter Piepenburg, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research
  • Dr. Paula Pappalardo, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
  • Dr. Bente Edvardsen, University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Section for Aquatic Biology and Toxicology

The symposium will end with a dinner including a wrap-up address ’The End of Evolution’ 
by Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht, Centre of Natural History, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Hamburg

Read more about the programme

Sign up to the event