6-month position available as programmer/bioinformatician

Position available as programmer/bioinformatician

You will participate in a research collaboration between the University of Gothenburg and Gothenburg Botanical Garden in Sweden and the University of Arizona in the USA, with funding from the Swedish Research Council. Your role will be to further develop and adapt the PhyLoTa browser (http://www.phylota.net/) for producing large-scale, time-calibrated phylogenetic trees, which will be used in ongoing research on Neotropical biogeography. You will participate in setting up a pipeline to download, handle, and merge data from online databases containing DNA sequences, geo-references, fossils, bioclimatic variables, etc. For more information please visit http://antonelli-lab.net (under ’News’)

Scratchpad-kurser på Naturhistoriska riksmuseet 7 och 8 Juni 21012

Teamet från Natural History Museum i London kommer att ge två endagskurser i Scratchpads på Naturhistoriska riksmuseet 7 och 8 juni 2012. Kursen 7 juni är en nybörjarkurs, och den 8 juni ges en mer avancerad kurs.

Scratchpads är ett EU-finansierat verktyg för att publicera och dela taxonomiska data.

Ett exempel på en Scratchpad:  http://acoela.myspecies.info

Kurserna är avgiftsfria och anmälningssidan hittar man här: http://scratchpads.eu/scratchpad-training-courses

Tag med egen bärbar dator!

 

Ulf Jondelius

Cumacea-workshop i Bergen, 3-7 december 2012

Havforskningsinstituttet og Universitetet i Bergen vil med dette invitere dere til en workshop i cumacea-morfologi. Workshopen vil finne sted på Espegrend Marinbiologiske Stasjon (UiB) utenfor Bergen fra 3-7 desember 2012, og er en del av Artsdatabanken sin satsing på marin biodiversitet.

Materialet for denne workshopen har blitt samlet inn på MAREANO-programmet av
Havforskningsinstitutet, og kommer fra områdene utenfor Nordland og Finnmark. Det vil
være fokus på morfologisk identifikasjon, men prøvene vil også brukes videre til molekylære studier, det vil bli lagt opp til at både “barcoding” og annet molekylært arbeid vil bli utført i etterkant av workshopen. MAREANO vil benytte resultatene av den morfologiske identifiseringen i sitt arbeid og sine rapporter.
Vi har invitert Sarah Gherken fra University of Alaska til å være ekspert-lærer.

Workshopen vil være gratis å delta på (mat og losji er inkludert), men deltagerne må dekke egen reise og ta med eget disseksjonsutstyr. Påmeldingsfrist er 15 april 2012, send epost til Anne Helene Tandberg (annehelene.tandberg@imr.no), Havforskningsinstituttet, Tromsø.

Spørsmål kan også stilles till Henrik Glenner / Kenneth Meland, Institutt for Biologi, Marin biodiversitet, Universitetet i Bergen (henrik.glenner@bio.uib.no, kennet.meland@bio.uib.no)

Vi ser frem til å være med deg på Espegrend og se på cumacea!
vennlig hilsen,
Anne

Hugo de Boer försvarar sin avhandling

Fredagen den 30:e mars kl 13:00 försvarar Hugo de Boer sin etnobotaniska och växtsystematiska avhandling med titeln ” Snake Gourds, Parasites and Mother Roasting: Medicinal plants, plant repellents, and Trichosanthes (Cucurbitaceae) in Lao PDR” i Lindahlsalen på Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum (EBC), Norbyvägen 18, vid Uppsala universitet. Opponent är Prof. Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Om allt går vägen blir det knytkalas i Zootissalen på EBC till kvällen.

Här finner du mer information om Hugos forskning och avhandling.

Lycka till Hugo!

Stockholm Phylogenomics Group – Aktiviteter 2012

Hej,

vill ta tillfället i akt att presentera vårens aktiviteter inom Stockholm Phylogenomics Group (se http://www.phylogenomics.se/Blog/Spring-Activities).

Nästa evangemang är redan nu på måndag 26 Mars!

Stockholm Phylogenomics Group (SPG) med websidan (www.phylogenomics.se) har funnits under ett antal år men har haft en mer eller mindre episodisk verksamhet. Nyligen uppdaterades websidan med en kalender och anslagstavla (”blog”). Mer information (på engelska) på www.phylogenomics.se.

Mvh

Johan Nylander

Enheten för Biodiversitetsinformatik, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (BI/NRM)

Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences (BILS)

 

14th Nordic Meeting on Tropical Botany 6-8 August 2012 – Göteborg, Sweden

Come to Göteborg this summer to share your ideas and results in Tropical Botany with colleagues, old friends and new contacts from across the Nordic region (in a broad sense). This meeting is a continuation of the series of Nordic Meetings on Tropical Botany (originally focussed on the Neotropics). The meeting will include two days of presentations (6-7 August) followed by a one-day excursion (8 August).

The meeting will be relaxed and informal. We are especially keen to encourage students, and this is a good opportunity for students to give their first presentation to an international audience. Contributions from junior and established researchers are of course also very welcome. The presentations can cover any aspect of tropical botany (ecology, systematics, conservation, etc).

Registration: The registration deadline is 15 June 2012.

For more information visit the meeting’s website: http://www.bioenv.gu.se/english/research/tropicalbotany

Organising committee
Alexandre Antonelli
Claes Persson
Roger Eriksson
Rosemeri Morokawa

 

Bukhårsdjur i pressen

Tidningen Smålänningen har i dagens nummer ett fint reportage med Tobias Kånneby (disputerad vid Naturhistoriska riksmuseet i fjol) där han beskriver sin forskning om evolution och mångfald hos bukhårsdjur (Gastrotricha) i synnerhet samt systematikens betydelse för att förstå evolution i allmänhet.

Tyvärr finns inte reportaget på nätet så ni som inte prenumererar på Smålänningen får nöja er med den korta texten på tidningens framsida.

Grattis Tobias!

Hennig XXXI Meeting

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.

Botany 2012 conference information

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