12th Symposium of the International Organization of Plant Biosystematists
1-5 June 2015 in Washington D.C.
National Museum of Natural History & United States Botanic Garden
http://botany.si.edu/sbs/
Colloquia
• Biogeographic patterns and processes of speciation and hybridization in spore-bearing plants (organized by Tom A. Ranker and Paul G. Wolf)
• Evolution and development in ferns and lycophytes: case studies and perspectives (organized by Alejandra Vasco and Barbara Ambrose)
• Future challenges of fern and lycophyte ecology: a call for conservation and collaboration in the next generation (organized by Klaus Mehltreter and James E. Watkins Jr.)
• Genomics and transcriptomics of ferns and lycophytes (organized by Joshua P. Der and Emily B. Sessa)
• The integration of ecological and phylogenetic approaches in pteridology (organized by Michael Sundue, James E. Watkins Jr., and Michael Kessler)
*iDigBio's own, Blaine Marchant, will be giving a presentation*
Workshops
• An introduction to next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics (organized by Mike Barker)
• Digital species identification tools (organized by Hanna Tuomisto, Glenda Cárdenas, Jefferson Prado, Samuli Lehtonen, and Gabriela Zuquim)
• Field ecology of ferns: a call for new standard methods and opportunities for collaboration among pteridologists (organized by Klaus Mehltreter and Joanne Sharpe)
