The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) erbjuder regelbundet teoretiska kurser i modern taxonomi och systematik och praktiska kurser i art- och organismkännedom. Programmet 2012/13 har just släppts, och många kurser är öppen för registrering.

http://www.taxonomytraining.eu/

The course aims to present the DNA barcoding technique for species identification/taxonomy/keys/species descriptions/estimates of biodiversity etc. The concept, the techniques, databases, theory, applications e.g. monitoring, larvae,
gut content, customs, pitfalls, drawbacks and advantages. Sessions will contain e.g. laptop exercises, discussions, an ecologists view on species ID and monitoring/management/diversity index. We will broadly cover different organism groups (fungi, plants, inverts, verts, marine org. and protozoa).

Where?  Naturicum, Uppsala: Bäcklösavägen (direction Gottsunda).

Confirmed teachers so far:
Per Sundberg and Sarah Bourlat: introduction, concept of barcoding and MOTU:s
Tomas Lyrholm: case study from Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
Torbjörn Ekrem: NorBOL, databases & laptop exercises

Target group: PhD students with a general background in biology
Working language: English/Scandinavian
Recommended course credits: 1.5 ECTS
Fee: No course fee. For members of ForBio (Research School in Biosystematics: http://www.forbio.uio.no/) and STIRS (Swedish Taxonomy Initiative Research school) travel and accomodation costs get refunded. Other participants pay for travel and accommodation.

Registration: Registrations, which should be accompanied by a short CV (indicating the nature and stage of your research project) can be sent til Oct 26. Priority will be given to those PhD-students enrolled in the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative’s Research School
and members of ForBio if the maximum number of course participants is exceeded by the number of registrations.
Number of participants: Maximum 20.
Registration: Malin Strand, Coordinator STIRS (Swedish Taxonomy Initiative Research School: http://www.slu.se/en/collaborativecentres-
and-projects/artdatabanken/the-swedish-taxonomy-initiative/research/research-school/), e-mail: malin.strand@gu.se, tel: +46(0)705-654246
ForBIO coordinator: Christiane Todt, PhD, e-mail: Christiane.Todt@um.uib.no

Dear All,

We are happy host Dr. Nicolas Lartillot (University of Montreal, Canada) for a one day workshop on Bayesian phylogenetics here at the Museum of Natural History (Stockholm).
Nicolas will lead a morning software session (PhyloBayes software) and give a talk (”Bayesian Integrative Models for Macroevolutionary Studies”) in the afternoon.

Date: Tuesday June 5.
Venue: Natural History Museum, Stockholm.
Time: 9am – 12pm (software session), 3:00pm – 4:30pm (seminar)

More information can be found on www.phylogenomics.se.

Nicolas home page:
http://www.biochimie.umontreal.ca/bottin411/Enseignants/lartillot_n.html

PhyloBayes software:
www.phylobayes.org

/JN

The course aims to present illustration techniques for identification keys and species descriptions. It will include lectures and practical sessions on drawing (different techniques) and photo handling.

Target group: PhD students with a general background in biology. Curators, museums.
Working language: English/Scandinavian
Recommended course credits: 2.5 ECTS
Fee: No course fee. For members of STIRS (Swedish Taxonomy Initiative’s Research School) or ForBio (Research School in Biosystematics: http://www.forbio.uio.no/) there are no accommodation costs and travel costs get refunded. Other participants pay for travel to/from Kristineberg, catering, and accommodation.

Registrations, which should be accompanied by a short CV (indicating the nature and stage of your research project) can be sent till August 10. Priority will be given to those PhD-students enrolled in the STIRS and members of ForBio if the maximum number of course participants is exceeded by the number of registrations.

Number of participants: Maximum 15.
Registration: Malin Strand, Coordinator STIRS (Swedish Taxonomy Initiative Research School), e-mail: malin.strand@gu.se, phone: +46(0)705-654246
Location: Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences is an infrastructure facility for University of Gothenburg (http://www.loven.gu.se/english/). It is located near Fiskebäckskil, Lysekil, at the Swedish west coast, 100 km north of Gothenburg.

Questions to:
Coordinator, STIRS: Malin Strand, PhD University of Gothenburg, Biodiversity and Systematics/Swedish Species Information Centre, SLU; E-mail: malin.strand@gu.se; Phone: +46 (0)705-654246.
ForBIO coordinator: Christiane Todt, PhD, e-mail: Christiane.Todt@um.uib.no

Dear all,
The research school in biosystematics – ForBio – announces the course ”Biosystematics methods and biodiversity”.
Expertise in collecting natural history specimens, gathering data associated with them, their identification based on morphological characters, and preservation for natural history collections is rapidly disappearing in many countries. This course aims to provide field experience for PhD students and post-docs in biosystematics who want to gain increased knowledge of specimen and data collection, specimen identification, and preservation for taxonomic research.
The registration deadline is June 15, 2012, but please see important registration information at http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2012/bio8001.html
There is no course fee, and PhD students/postdocs registered at Swedish or Norwegian universities can become ForBio members and will then have their travel and accommodation costs covered. For information about ForBio and its membership, please see http://www.forbio.uio.no/

8 maj anordnar Svenska Systematikföreningen, i samarbete med Svenska artprojektets forskarskola och Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, en doktoranddag med fokus på karriärplanering inom forskning för doktorander och nydisputerade inom ämnesområdet systematik. Vi kommer att ta upp och diskutera möjligheterna att hitta försörjning inom forskningsbranchen, forskningsfinansiärer och beredningsprocessen, meriter och meritvärdering, postdoc och ansökningsskrivande. Alla doktorander inom systematikområdet och angränsande fält är varmt välkomna, liksom nydisputerade systematiker!

Plats: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, konferensrum 525

Föreläsare: Mats Wedin (mats.wedin@nrm.se) + några inbjudna som delar med sig av sina postdoc-erfarenheter

Anmälan: Rikard Sundin (Rikard.Sundin@slu.se)

Preliminärt program

09.00-09.30     Ankomst med fika

09.30-11.30     Sverige och livet efter detta för den nydisputerade systematikern. Hur fungerar det med externa forskningsbidrag, och vilka är möjligheterna att hitta en försörjning efter disputationen inom forskningsbranchen? Vilka är forskningsfinansiärerna och hur går ansöknings- och beredningsprocessen till? Vad bedöms och hur värderas meriter? CV, publicering, meriter för olika ändamål. Jämförelser av några CVn. Planera för postdoc.

11.30-12.30     LUNCHPAUS

12.30-14.30     Postdoc. Två framgångsrika kollegor som ganska nyligen kommit tillbaka till landet från sina respektive postdoc-vistelser berättar om sina erfarenheter.

Att fundera på: Breddning vs specialisering. Finansiering. Förväntat resultat – att bli ”sin egen”. Hur skall man optimera postdoc-tiden? Vad behöver man tänka på när man åker utomlands och när man kommer tillbaka till Sverige? Hur lyfter man fram sin postdoc i en ansökan?

14.30-14.45     Kafferast

14.45-16.00     Söka egna projekt-medel och jobb. Att skriva ansökan. Att tolka utlåtanden (eller inte). Hur ser en framgångsrik ansökan och ett framgångsrikt CV ut? Vem får pengar och varför? Att inte låta sig nedslås…