Announcing the 4th Annual Plant Biology Symposium

May 8th, 2008
Sherman Fairchild Lecture Hall
7 Divinity Avenue

Phylogeny Informs Biology: Seeing the Forest from the Trees

A wealth of new information, from whole genome sequences to  inventories of the earth's biota, is rapidly transforming biology.  Simultaneously, ongoing progress in resolving phylogenetic  relationships among the more than 1.7 billion species in the tree of  life provides the framework in which these data can be used to  address long standing questions in plant biology. The 4th Annual  Plant Biology Symposium at Harvard is aimed at highlighting the  exciting ways in which phylogenies are being used in a wide range of  studies, from global biome change to endosymbiosis.

Invited Speakers and topics:

Debashish Bhattacharya, Professor, The University of Iowa -- Plastid Origins
Michael Donoghue, Professor, Yale University -- Phylogenetic Biology
Erika Edwards, Assistant Professor, Brown University -- Global Change Biology
David Hibbett, Associate Professor, Clark University -- Automated Taxonomy
Susanne Renner, Professor, Ludwig Max, University Munich and University of Missouri-St. Louis -- Biogeography
Caroline Strömberg, Assistant Professor, University of Washington -- Evolution of Grassland Ecosystems
Lee Taylor, Professor, University of Alaska-Fairbanks-- Plant-Fungal Interactions

Email *Melissa van Ee: mvanee [at] oeb.harvard.edu to register for lunch and parking

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*Please note that the person responsible for registration has changed: April 18, 2008