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4 EvolDir December 1, 2012
including protected areas and policies as well as the
role of botanic gardens, landscaping and plants in culture
will be included. It is also a chance to establish
and strengthen partnerships and collaborations.
For conference details, please visit the conference website:
http://elmer.rbge.org.uk/ploswa8/ which will be
updated regularly as abstracts are submitted.
Registration is now open, and early bird discounted registration
has been extended until the end of 2012. We
welcome the submission of abstracts in any of the advertised
sessions, and also proposals for workshops.
If you require any information about PLoSWA8, please
email: ploswa8@rbge.org.uk
Best wishes,
Dr Alan Forrest Centre for Middle Eastern Plants
(CMEP) | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh | 20A Inverleith
Row | Edinburgh EH3 5LR | Scotland | UK
Telephone: 0131 248 2967 Website: www.cmep.org.uk
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a Charity registered
in Scotland (No SC007983)
Alan Forrest
ExeterU
QuantEvolutionaryDynamics
Apr17-19
The purpose of this message is to announce the following
meeting that may be of interest.
Quantitative Evolutionary Dynamics (QED) Microbial
Communities: from the lab to natural environments
17th-19th April, 2013 Shaldon, Devon, by the sea
near Dartmoor/Exeter University, UK: this is the village
website http://www.shaldon-devon.co.uk/ Aimed
specifically at younger scientists, this conference is
a forum for research into evolving microbial systems
bridging the gap between mathematical models, laboratory
models and natural ecosystems. Speakers will
talk about plant and human pathogens, natural fungal
ecosystems, consortia of symbionts, their responses to
antibiotics and viruses and single-cell observations of
bacteria in microfluidic devices.
This is a MMEMS meeting http://www.mmems.org/funded
by an EPSRC Creativity@Home Award.
To register, which is free, please go to http://www.mmems.org/workshop.php#
but please note that
there is a limit of 50 participants.
International Speakers: Tim Barraclough, Imperial
College Justin Meyer, Harvard Medical School Lon
Chubiz, Harvard Systems Biology Chris Marx, Harvard
Systems Biology Remy Chait, Harvard Medical School
Markus Arnoldini, ETHZ Luz Becks, Max Planck Ploen
Pietro Cicuta, Cambridge University Rosalind Allen,
Edinburgh University Ben Cooper, Oxford University
Martin Ackermann, ETHZ
Exeter Speakers: Ivana Gudelj William Gaze Francesca
Fiegna Angus Buckling Murray Grant
Robert Beardmore Professor of Mathematical Biosciences
Biosciences Streatham Campus University of
Exeter r.e.beardmore@exeter.ac.uk
“Beardmore, Robert”
Ferrara Italy
ItalianSocEvolutionaryBiol
Dec15-16
Dear friends and colleagues,
On behalf of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology
(SIBE), and in collaboration with the Department
of Life Science and Biotechnology of the University of
Ferrara and the Museum of Natural History of Ferrara,
we are pleased to invite all interested parties to attend
SIBE2012 – Simposio Evoluzione e Assemblea dei Soci
(Symposium on Evolutionary Biology and Annual Business
Meeting of SIBE members)
WHEN
15th - 16th December 2012. Beginning of scientific sessions
on December 15th at 14.30
WHERE
15th December: Ferrara, Polo Chimico Bio Medico, via
Borsari 46 (free parking inside)
16th December: Ferrara, Sala dei Comuni, Castello Estense
(Communal Hall, Estense Castle)
THE SYMPOSIUM
The symposium is organized around six principal
themes: population genetics, ecology and demography;
sexual selection; phylogenies, species, and speciation;
new technologies to study evolution; adaptation; human
evolution. For each themethere will be an invited
speaker as well as a presentation by a young researcher.
All talks will be in English