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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
PDF of 2008 Program
PDF of 2008 Poster
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*Please note that the person responsible for registration has changed: April 18, 2008 |