The Thirty First Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society, under the auspices of University of California Riverside will be held on June 23-27 2012 at the beautiful and historic Mission Inn.

Details of the meeting symposia, registration and abstract submission can be found at http://www.cladistics.org/meetings.html

 Up to 5 Kurt Milton Pickett Intercontinental Travel Awards not to exceed $1000  will be given for student travel between continents.

Up to 10 Marie Stopes Travel Awards not to exceed $500 will be given for travel within the same continent as the meeting.

Information om botanikkonferens med klara systematiska inslag, som kom via IAPTs sändlista.

Mats

The organizers of the Botany 2012 conference are pleased that IAPT will be joining us for our annual botany conference in Columbus, Ohio, July 7-11, 2012. I am the organizer of the systematics portion of the conference and I am writing with some information about the conference for those of you who are not regular attendees of our annual meeting.

We anticipate having roughly 1000 attendees at Botany 2012. The conference covers all areas of botany, but systematics is the largest portion of the conference. This year we will have a number of symposia, colloquia and other special sessions that are related to plant systematics, plus the many contributed papers and posters. In addition, there are workshops, field trips, and other activities that hopefully will be of interest. Details on symposia and other offerings are available on the conference web site (http://www.2012.botanyconference.org<http://www.2012.botanyconference.org/>
).

The conference web site is now open for abstract submissions and conference registration. Abstract submission deadline is 1 April. Early registration discount rates are good until 15 June. Feel free to contact me with any questions about abstract submission or conference registration.

I would like to make a couple quick points for your information:

Paper submissions- if you will be submitting a contributed paper you may submit it to a disciplinary section (e.g., Systematics Section/ASPT), or you may submit to a ”Topic” session that crosses disciplines. You will see a list of these as you begin the abstract submission process. The most relevant one for systematists is ”Biogeography.” If your paper has a primary focus on a biogeography (or phylogeography) question you should consider submitting it to the biogeography topic (which I also organize). Of course you are free to submit a paper to any section or topic that is appropriate.
The same information applies to poster submissions. Contributed papers are
15 minutes in length, inclusive of time for questions.

The ASPT banquet will be held on Tuesday night. You can order tickets when you register for the conference. Note that discounted price tickets are available for students. We hope that you will join us for the mixer and banquet.

Field trips- The annual conference always has a great selection of field trips for attendees. You can find information about field trips on the conference web site.

Registration- The registration process on the web site is quite straightforward. When you register for the conference you will use a ”ConferenceID” (for BSA members this is the same as your ”BotanyID”). If you are not a member of BSA you will need to set up a ConferenceID. You will find instructions on the web page. You can go back to your registration later on the web site and add tickets for banquets or field trips if necessary. But field trips do fill up and it is often too late to purchase banquet tickets on site at the conference so be sure to do this online as soon as possible.

When you register for the conference please be sure to check the box for IAPT membership (and other societies if appropriate). Registration rate is reduced for members of participating societies.

We look forward to you joining us in Columbus. Let me know if you have any questions.

With best wishes,

Pat

Patrick Herendeen
(pherendeen@chicagobotanic.org<mailto:pherendeen@chicagobotanic.org>)
ASPT and BSA Systematics Section Program Director Chicago Botanic Garden

Submissions are open to the following symposium:

”Neogene global tectonic and climatic change as drivers in plant evolution: Linking the palynological, palaeobotanical and molecular records” (under theme: ”Cenozoic plants and biosphere surrounding them”)

– a symposium at the International Palynological Conference (23-30th of August, 2012; Tokyo, Japan); http://www.psj3.org/ipc-iopc2012/Welcome.html

Synopsis: The Neogene period represents the transition to our modern world, when crucial geographical features such as topographic relief, drainage patterns and oceanic currents were laid out. It also represents the run-up to the ‘icehouse’ world with final bleeps of a ‘greenhouse’ during the Middle Miocene (c. 15 Ma) and Middle Pliocene (c. 4 Ma). The combined effects of global tectonic and climatic change was critical for floral and faunal evolution, but also determined present biodiversity patterns, particularly this latter aspect was only identified by scientists in recent years.  Interdisciplinary studies in geological history, palynology, palaeobotany and molecular phylogeny potentially can offer new insights into our understanding of plant evolution and diversification. In this session we encourage palynologists, palaeobotanists and molecular biologists who work at the interface of their disciplines to present their research on the Neogene evolution of plants and algae in geologically dynamic regions from all over the globe and from both marine and/or continental settings. The insights gained from this type of research are relevant when modeling the impact of future climatic change, but also where it concerns drafting guidelines for conservation policies in regions of high biodiversity.

Organizers:

Dr. Carina Hoorn
Palaeo-ecology and Landscape Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email: M.C.Hoorn@uva.nl

Dr. Andre Pardo
Universidad de Caldas, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Calle 65 No. 26-10, Manizales, Colombia
Email: apardo66@yahoo.com

Dr. Alexandre Antonelli
Gothenburg Botanical Garden & University of Gothenburg, Carl Skottsbergs gata 22, 413 19 Göteborg, Sweden
Email: alexandre.antonelli@gu.se