Systematikdagarna 2025

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.

Systematikdagarna 2025 will take place at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (Swedish Museum of Natural History), November 24–25. Financial support to the meeting is generously provided by SLU Artdatabanken (SLU Swedish Species Information Centre).

The conference includes a social programme on Monday evening with glögg mixer and dinner. Prizes will be awarded to best student talk and poster. The day before the conference a meeting for early career researchers will be held at Stockholm University.

Keynote speakers

  • Mariana Pires Braga, Associate Senior Lecturer & DDLS Fellow, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala. Causes and consequences of higher host specialisation in the Tropics: This talk will focus on a project we have recently started to work on. The goal of this project is to provide an unbiased assessment of host plant specialisation in butterflies, investigate its causes and consequences in terms of risk of local coextinction. For that, we will combine field observations, rearing experiments, transcriptomics, interaction prediction, and phylogenetic reconstruction. Our goal is to deliver comprehensive understanding of the evolution of host specialisation, enough to propose an explanation for the latitudinal specialisation gradient. The frameworks for efficient data gathering based on interaction prediction and for quantification of vulnerability to coextinction will hopefully be valuable tools for many researchers studying ecological interactions.
  • Jan Hackel, Associate Professor, DEEP, Stockholm University. Evolutionary plant biogeography: grasses, Madagascar, and global patterns: My research focuses on understanding plant biogeography from an evolutionary perspective: How have speciation, extinction and dispersal driven distribution patterns and the emergence of biomes? What are the relative contributions of of selection versus chance? I will present some of my past and present work, starting with a taxonomic focus on the grass family (Poaceae). Then I will talk about how phylogenetic/systematic approaches can help us understand the emergence of biomes in Madagascar, a global biodiversity hotspot. I will end the presentation by zooming out and talking about (lineage) dispersal and global geographic disjunctions in seed plants.

Preliminary programme

Detailed programme will be published later.

Sunday afternoon

Early Career Meeting at Stockholm University, see more below.

Monday

  • 8:45 Reception and coffee.
  • Session 1
  • 12:00 Lunch
  • Session 2
  • 14:30 Poster session with coffee.
  • Session 3
  • Evening: Glögg mixer and Stockholm University with following dinner at the museum.

Tuesday

  • 8:45 Morning coffee
  • Session 4
  • 12:00 Lunch
  • Session 5
  • 14:30 Coffee
  • Session 6
  • Student prizes and closing of the conference

Location

Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (Swedish Museum of Natural History)

Frescativägen 40, Stockholm

T-bana (Metro): Universitetet

Registration

Register here for Systematikdagarna 2025

After registration, you will receive an e-mail with payment instructions. The cost for participation in this year’s Systematikdagarna is:

  • Full participation: 800 SEK per person, which includes conference fee, ”fika”, lunch and conference dinner in the evening of November 24.
  • Limited participation: For those who do not wish to participate in the dinner, the conference cost is 400 SEK.
  • Bachelor and Master students can register for 400 SEK (including dinner).
  • You are also very welcome to pay the yearly membership fee to Svenska Systematikföreningen (100 SEK). Check the correct box in the registration form and add the appropriate amount to the conference fee when paying. You can also pay the membership fee separately.

Deadlines

Abstracts for posters and presentations: October 27.

Registrations: November 1.

Photos from the conference

During the conference we will be taking photographs of speakers and audience for social media and our website. If you do not wish to be visible in the photos, please inform the organizers on site.

Event: Early Career Systematists in Sweden

November 23, Stockholm University (Svante Arrhenius väg 20A (Room P216, the P-building)

Free of charge and open to all young systematists in Sweden, it is a place for you to network and get to know like-minded people in a relaxed environment. We have invited two speakers to talk about their careers in systematics – the plant systematist Dr. Aelys Humphreys, Associate Professor at Stockholm University, and the paleontologist Dr. Steffen Kiel, a senior curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Preliminary schedule for the early-career event:

  • 13:00    Introductions, ice-breaking activities
  • 14:30    Fika/mingle
  • 15:00    Two talks: “The Past and the Curious – being a paleontologist at Naturhistoriska riksmuseet” by Steffen Kiel, and “Plants, Places and People – inspirations along my Botanical (career) Path” by Aelys Humphreys, followed by discussions
  • 17:00    Wrap up, dinner/beer in Stockholm

Questions about the early career meeting? Contact emma.karrnas@biol.lu.se or marten@stationlinne.se.

Contact

If you have any questions about Systematikdagarna, don’t hesitate to contact us!