Welcome to BioSystematics Berlin 2011

The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (Freie Universität Berlin) and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin are pleased to host the

7^th International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB VII) of IOSEB (International Organization for Systematic and Evolutionary Biology),

12^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS), and

20^th International Symposium “Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology” of the German Botanical Society (DBG).

The scope of the congress is to bring together evolutionary biologists and systematists working on plant, animal, and microscopical organisms to discuss and debate topics of common interest. The focus will be on innovative and forward-looking ideas, concepts, and methods in systematic and evolutionary biology. It will also provide a unique opportunity to highlight topics of current biodiversity research. We hope to attract many researchers from different fields to this congress and look forward to welcoming you in Berlin in February 2011.

Major Conference Topics

• Trends in Taxonomy

• Evolution of Organisms in Time and Space

• The Evolutionary Thought: History, Philosophy and Society

• Evolution of Form and Function

• Inventorying and Managing Biodiversity

Recent News and Deadlines

Online Registration and Abstract Submission      

Second Circular          

ICSEB Student award (see 'Student information')

Now online: Revised Preliminary Program and Excursions

Call for Symposia and Workshops	31 May 2010
Begin of registration and abstract submission	31 August 2010
Application for funding or award deadline	1 October 2010
Abstract submission deadline	31 October 2010
Early registration closes	31 October 2010

 

 

Venue

The congress will be held at the new “Seminaris CampusHotel, Science & Conference Center”, located directly near the campus of Freie Universität in one of Berlins most greenest districts, Dahlem. It combines excellent and modern meeting equipment and vicinity to the Freie Universität, the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum as well as the Ethnological Museum. The venue is easily accessible by public transport from the airport and the city center's railway station.

A more detailed map you find by following this link.

 

Tourist information

More information about arrival in Berlin is given by Berlin Tourist Information.

 

Public transport

Berlin has excellent public transport facilities enabling you to travel through the town 24 hours. Detailed information including journey planer you find here.

 

Accommodation

Participants are asked to organize their stay in Berlin by themselves. But if any help is needed please feel free to contact us. On this page your will find information about accomodation especially in vicinity to congress location.

Seminaris CampusHotel

For all attendees, who prefer to stay directly at the Congress Venue, we recommend the Seminaris CampusHotel, which offers special room rates for congress participants (78,50 € per night for single room including breakfast). A contingent of rooms is reserved for participants and can be booked directly by following this link: Reservation

 

Middle class hotels and guesthouses close to congress venue are listed here:

Ravenna Hotel

Grunewaldstr. 8/9, 12165 Berlin, tel. +49(0)30-79091100,

15 min walking distance to congress venue or 5 min by bus (direct connection)  

 

Hotel Pension Dahlem

Unter den Eichen 89 A, 12165 Berlin,

30 min walking distance to congress venue or 5 min by bus (direct connection only on weekdays)

 

Apartment Hotel Dahlem

Clayallee 150-152, 14195 Berlin, Tel.  (030) 841893-0, Fax. (030) 841893-19

25 min walking distance to congress venue or 4 min by underground + 5 min walking

Best Western Steglitz International

Albrechtstr. 2, 12165 Berlin, tel. +49(0)30-790050.

20 min walking distance to congress venue or 5 min by bus (direct connection)

 

Hotel Morgenland

Finckensteinallee 23-27, tel. +49(0)30-8438809,

10 min by bus (direct connection only on weekdays) to congress venue

 

Isaak Miles Hotel

Jungfernstieg 7a, tel. ++49(0)30-75 444 75-00

15 min by bus (direct connection only on weekdays) to congress venue

 

 

Low cost accomodation you find here

NFBB Projekt GmbH

c/o NFH "Karl-Renner"

Ringstraße 76/77, 12205 Berlin, Tel. 030 / 83 20 39 13, Fax 030 / 83 20 39 11, steglitz@naturfreundehaus-berlin.de

Shared rooms less than 20 Euro, single rooms 30 – 35 Euro

10 min by bus (direct connection only on weekdays) to congress venue

 

 

Click here to find especially accommodation in Steglitz, the district of Berlin where the Botanic Garden is situated. This site is only available in German language, but request and booking forms are in English also.

 

 

More information about additional hotels throughout Berlin and urban hinterland is given by Berlin Tourist information:

http://www.berlin.de/international/index.en.php?lang=en

or

http://www.booking.com/city/de/berlin.en.html

 or

http://www.visitberlin.de

Registration

Online-registration is open.

Congress fee includes two coffee breaks and lunch on every congress day, conference binder with abstract volume, icebreaker in the dinosaur hall of the Museum für Naturkunde and social evening in the greenhouses of the Botanic Garden with promenade concert and buffet dinner.

Early registration fee is 390 € until 31st October 2010, late registration fee is 430 €. It has to be transferred to our bank account together with registration.

Students pay a reduced fee of 200 € (early) or 230 € (late). For student rate please submit a photocopy of your student card as proof of your eligibility.

Financial support may be awarded to student members of GfBS and DBG. Students from abroad can apply for the ICSEB student award. For further information please click on the button 'Student information' or download PDF here.

Please note that Early-Registration closes 31 October 2010. All participants, who intend to pay their fee with credit card have to register before 10 January 2011.

 

Time schedule and Deadlines

Workshop and Symposia deadline	31 May 2010
Begin of registration and abstract submission	31 August 2010
Application for student award deadline	1 October 2010
Abstract submission deadline	31 October 2010
Early registration closes	31 October 2010

 

Please contact congress office, if you have missed any deadline.

Abstract submission is open now

Papers for oral or poster presentations are invited. All participants interested in presenting a scientific contribution are kindly requested to submit a one-page abstract in English to the congress office together with their registration. Congress organizers are looking forward to your contribution.

Guidelines for abstract submission

All Abstracts must be written in English and submitted as word-file by following this scheme:

    Title

    Last name, I.; Last name, I. & Last name, I.

    Institution, Address, E-mail.

    Text

    Font: Verdana 12 pt, max. 2500 characters (incl. title, authors, affiliation, and blanks)
 

Please    and complete this form,

and submit it together with your abstract via email to congress office. We kindly ask you to fill in one form for each abstract you submit. Please note that abstract submission does not make redundant online-registration. 

         

The deadline for abstract submission is 31 October 2010. Successful authors will be notified in late November.

Please note that applicants for any financial support should submit their abstracts before 1 October 2010.

 

 

Symposia

Up to five parallel Symposia and Poster Sessions are planned for each of the five major conference topics listed in the preliminary programme.

Proposals for symposia are currently being invited. To submit a proposal, contact the Congress Office via e-mail at berlin2011@bgbm.org. Proposals corresponding to the five major conference topics are especially encouraged, but all relevant topics will be considered by the organizers.

Symposia across more than one group of organisms are welcome and strongly encouraged. Symposium organizers are free to open their session for contributed papers.

 

Guidelines for symposium organizers:

• The organizing body of a symposium should consist of at least two organizers, ideally no more than one of whom should be from Germany. Organizers are allowed to give a talk within their symposium.

• Sessions take two hours and consist of six 20 minutes presentations (including 5 minutes question time). We offer the possibility to get a maximum of two time-slots per symposium if necessary.

• A symposium proposal should include a description of scientific content (not more than 300 words) and contact details of organizers (obligatory) and speakers (optional).

• Please suggest to which of the five major conference topics your symposium can be assigned, but notice that conference organizers reserve their right to change this assignment depending on the the final arrangement of the congress program.

• Organizers should emphasize broad international participation and gender balance as much as possible.

• Official language is English.

 

For the titles of confirmed symposia and time schedule please see Preliminary Program (button on the left).

 

Invited Speakers

We are pleased to welcome the following colleagues who agreed to give a plenary talk:

Eldridge, Niles	American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA	The Advent of the Modern Fauna: The Role of Systematics and Paleontology at the Dawn of Modern Evolutionary Biology
Kang, Daeseok	Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea	Translating biodiversity studies into management strategies
Knapp, Sandra	Natural History Museum, London, UK	Back to the future – the changing face of taxonomy in the 21st century
Lane, Richard	Natural History Museum, London, UK	Scientific Collections: a vital infrastructure for biodiversity studies
Lohmann, Lúcia	Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil	Drivers of morphological diversification in the Tropics: Examples from Neotropical lianas
Mallet, James	Galton Laboratory, University College, London, UK	Mimicry in butterflies: from local variation to speciation
Rieppel, Olivier	The Field Museum, Chicago, USA	The series, the network, and the tree: changing metaphors of order in nature
Rudall, Paula J.	Royal Botanic Garden,  Kew, UK	Reproductive evolution in early angiosperms
Stevens, Peter	University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA	250 years of solitude: the systematist as individualist
Wiley, Edward O.	University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Lawrence, USA	60 Years of Phylogenetic Systematics: Progress and Issues

Preliminary Program

The congress will open with a plenary lecture on "60 Years of Phylogenetic Systematics: Progress and Issues".

Additional plenary talks are planned on the following five major topics of the conference:

• Trends in Taxonomy

• Evolution of Organisms in Time and Space

• The Evolutionary Thought: History, Philosophy and Society

• Evolution of Form and Function

• Inventorying and Managing Biodiversity

Contributed papers sessions and Symposia to all five topics are distributed throughout the whole week, so that there will be five parallel sessions every day, each of them dedicated to one of the topics (distinguishable by different colours). We ask all participants to select one of those topics on the registration form, but you are free to change within the congress period. There will not be any parallel session during all ten plenary lectures.

A public evening lecture on the scientific work on tropical biodiversity and its connection to botanical research by Berlin born Alexander von Humboldt will be held by Hans-Walter Lack as the opening for the Social Evening taking part in the famous Greenhouses of Botanic Garden.

The program is subject to short term alterations by the organizers.

Congress venue is the Seminaris Science & Conference Center in Berlin-Dahlem, if no different venue is indicated.

 

13:00 – 17:00 Executive Committee Meeting of GfBS - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM)

13:00 - 18:00 Mini-Symposium: Recent aspects in the collection management of natural history wet collections (Marita Schuda, Birger Neuhaus)

16:30 – 20:00 Registration – Museum of Natural History (MfN)

17:00 – 18:00 Guided tours through the collections of MfN

From 18:00     Ice-Breaker-Party 'Under the Dinosaurs' (MfN)

  

8:00 – 9:00 Registration - Congress Venue: Seminaris Conference Center (Dahlem)

9:00 – 9:30  Welcome and Opening

9:30 – 10:30  Opening plenary: 60 Years of Phylogenetic Systematics: Progress and Issues (Edward O. Wiley)

10:30 – 11:30 Back to the Future – the Changing Face of Taxonomy in the 21st Century (Sandra Knapp)

11:30 – 13:30 Coffee and Lunch break

                   Meeting of JuSys (Junge Systematiker of GfBS)

                   Guided Tours (e.g. Botanic Garden or Botanical Museum)              

13:30 – 15:30 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions):

Chromosomal Studies in Plants and Animals: still a Significant Approach in the Elucidation of Phylogenetic and Taxonomical Problems? – Georgia Kamari, Eva Giagia-Athanasopoulou

Recent Paleontologic Contributions to the Study of Evolution. (Session I) ‒ David Lazarus, Wolfgang Kiessling, Johannes Müller, Andrew Smith (click here for the synopsis)

Contributed Papers

New Frontiers in Morphology: Potential and Limits of synchrotron/high Energy Radiation. - Hannelore Hoch

Data Quality and Phylogenies. ‒ Wolfgang Wägele (click here for the synopsis)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 18:00 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions)

World wide Access to Biodiversity Literature: Digital and Virtual Libraries for Taxonomists. ‒ Boris Jacob, Jana Hoffmann

Recent Paleontologic Contributions to the Study of Evolution. (Session II) ‒ David Lazarus, Wolfgang Kiessling, Johannes Müller, Andrew Smith

Next generation sequencing and genomics in biodiversity research ‒ Gernot Glöckner, Michael Monaghan

Contributed Papers

ENNREB – European Network for Neotropical Research in Evolution and Biogeography. ‒ Alexandre Antonelli, Colin E. Hughes, Isabel SanMartin, Toby R. Pennington (click here for the synopsis)

 

9:00 – 10:00 The Advent of the Modern Fauna: The Role of Systematics and Paleontology at the Dawn of Modern Evolutionary Biology (Niles Eldredge)

10:00 – 11:00 Drivers of Morphological Diversification in the Tropics: Examples from Neotropical Lianas (Lúcia Lohmann)

11:00 – 12:30 Coffee break & Poster Session I

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

                    Guided tours (e.g. Botanic Garden or Botanical Museum)

13:30 – 15:30 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions):

Contributed Papers

Deciphering Mid-Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. ‒ Barbara Mohr, Clément Coiffard, Alexander Schmidt (click here for synopsis)

Prokaryotes: from Genes to Cells ‒ Brian Tindall

Biodiversity Informatics for Biosystematics ‒ Walter Berendsohn, Agnes Kirchhoff

Meeting "AG Kuratoren" of GfBS

15:30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16:00 – 18:00 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions):

Contributed Papers

Biosystematics of Polyploid Plant Complexes: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects. ‒ Karol Marhold, Jan Suda (click here for synopsis)

Plant-Animal Interactions. ‒ Sigrid Liede-Schumann, Jeff Ollerton (click here for synopsis)

Long Term Storage and Availability of Primary Data - where, what, how? ‒ Birgit Gemeinholzer

Special Session: Bestowal of Rensch-Award (to be announced)

18:15 – 19:30 General Meetings of IOSEB, GfBS and DFG (Section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology)

 

8:30 – 10:30 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions)

Integrating genes, genomes and morphology: Towards a comprehensive picture of angiosperm evolution ‒ Thomas Borsch

Evolutionary Patterns in Pathogenic and Symbiotic Relationships. ‒ Marco Thines (click here for the synopsis)

Contributed Papers

Contributed Papers

Contributed Papers

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions):

Contributed Papers

Towards a more comprehensive understanding of Western Eurasian refugia – integrating botanical and zoological approaches ‒ David Tarkhnishvili, Gerald Parolly (click here for synopsis)

Contributed Papers

TEMPO AND MODE OF CHANGE - Reconstructing Morphological Evolution in the Light of the Current Debate on Evolutionary Processes ‒ Alessandro Minelli

SOFTWARE BAZAR - Software Tools for Systematists, Manage and Share your Data ‒ Gabriele Droege, Agnes Kirchhoff (click here for synopsis)
 

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:00 250 Years of Solitude: the Systematist as Individualist (Peter Stevens)

16:00 – 17:00 The Series, the Network, and the Tree: Changing Metaphors of Order in Nature (Olivier Rieppel)

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 – 18:30 Evening lecture: Alexander von Humboldt and the Botanical Exploration of the Americas (Hans Walter Lack)

From 19:00    Social Evening (Promenade Concert and Buffet Dinner in the Greenhouses of the Botanic Garden)

 

  9:00 – 10:00 Mimicry in Butterflies: from Local Variation to Speciation (James Mallet)

10:00 – 11:00 Reproductive Evolution in Early Angiosperms (Paula J. Rudall)

11:00 – 12:30 Coffee break & Poster Session II

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

                    Guided tours (e.g. Botanic Garden or Botanical Museum)

13:30 – 15:30 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions):

Contributed Papers

Microbial biogeography and diversity patterns: extending classical ecology theories or defining new paradigms? ‒ Annick Wilmotte, Alban Ramette (click here for synopsis)

Contributed Papers

Niche Evolution. ‒ Joachim W. Kadereit, Peter B. Pearman

Modernizing the Nomenclatural Codes to meet Future Needs of Scientific Communities (BIOCODE). ‒ David Hawksworth, Regine Jahn, Ellinor Michel, Ralf Reski

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 18:00 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions):

Contributed Papers

Cenozoic Diversification and Climate Change. ‒ Annette Klussmann-Kolb, Alexandra Müllner (click here for the synopsis)

Stalk-eyed Flies (Diopsidae): a Model Organism for Studying the Evolution of Form and Function. ‒ Marion Kotrba, Philip Johns (click here for synopsis)

Contributed Papers (Open Session)

Contributed Papers 

 

 9:00 – 11:00 Symposia/ Contributed Papers (Parallel Sessions):

Next Generation Phylogenetics – from Gene Trees to Species Trees. ‒ Christoph Oberprieler (click here for the synopsis)

Plant Diversity in the Euro-Mediterranean Area ‒ Guilhem Mansion, Panayotis Dimopoulos (click here for the synopsis)

All you need is Light? Gain and Loss of Photosynthesis. ‒ Gela Preisfeld, Jens Boenigk (click here for the synopsis)

Digital identification methods in the digital age - morphological and molecular, computer-aided and fully automated, research and citizen science ‒ Gregor Hagedorn, Régine Vignes Lebbe (click here for the synopsis)

Contributed Papers (Open Session)

11:00 – 13:00 Coffee and Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00 Scientific Collections: a Vital Infrastructure for Biodiversity Studies (Richard Lane)

14:00 – 15:00 Translating Biodiversity Studies into Management Strategies (Daeseok Kang)

15:00 – 15:30 Bestowal of Student Awards and Closing

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 18:00 Workshops

                    Guided tours (e.g. Botanic Garden or Botanical Museum and Herbarium)

 

Excursions and further workshops

 

Workshops & Satellite Meetings

Up to now the following workshops and satellite-meetings are planned. For detailed information please see description or contact workshop-organizers.

• Species delimitation using nuclear sequence markers: a practical training in using two software tools (Champuru, SeqPHASE) to resolve heterozygous chromatograms into allelic sequences without cloning – Jean-François Flot

        Click here for description.

• 1. Cooperationworkshop of the “Pan-Caucasian Plant Biodiversity Initiative” with participants of the Transcaucasus countries Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – Thomas Borsch, Gerald Parolly

• Biodiversity Heritage Library: Hands-on training on search and retrieval of digital literature - Henning Scholz      

        Click here for description.

• Mini-Symposium: Recent aspects in the collection management of natural history wet collections – Marita Schuda and Birger Neuhaus

 

 

 

 

Excursions

On Sunday, 27th February, we offer the possibility to participate in several different tours to discover Berlin by bus or by foot, visit famous Pergamon Museum on the Museum Island and many other exciting sites. You can have a very different view on Berlin by discovering its underground or have a look on its changeful history by visiting 'The Story of Berlin'. Alternatively you can go on a trip to the city of Potsdam or the famous Saxon city of Dresden, beautifully situated in Elbe valley.

Excursions can be booked on the registration form as soon as it is online. All tours will start in the morning or on the forenoon on Sunday 27^th February, and are completely accompanied by English speaking guides. Exact times, meeting points and directions will be posted here in due time. Bus tours will start at Seminaris CampusHotel.

Please note that all excursions are subject to a minimum attendance. If the minimum attendance is not achieved, we will of course reimburse you for the overpayment.

 

Berlin City Walking Tour ("Unter den Linden")   Start: Brandenburger Tor End: Museum Island Duration: 2 hours Costs: 14 €

Sven Gross-Selbeck, Mai 2008

Discover famous sites of Berlin's Historic core, like the Berlin Cathedral, the Berlin State Opera, the Humboldt University and learn more about Berlin's changeful history by walking down the famous boulevard "Unter den Linden".

 

Short Berlin City Tour   Start: Seminaris CampusHotel Dahlem End: Museum Island Duration: 2 hours Costs: 21 €

Christian Thiele (APPER), März 2005

Discover Berlin! Get an overview of our City and visit the Brandenburg Gate, "Unter den Linden" Boulevard, the shopping area around "Kurfürstendamm", the absorbing architecture of Potsdamer Platz, the government district with the Reichstags Parliament and the Federal Chancellery, the former Checkpoint Charlie, remnants of the Berlin Wall and many other fascinating sites.

 

 

Pergamon Museum

Start: Pergamon Museum End: Pergamon Museum Duration: 1 hour Costs: 17 € (entrance fee is included)

Jan Mehlich, September 2007

The visit of Pergamon Museum can be booked additionally to the Short Berlin City Tour or the Berlin Walking tour which both end on the Museum's Island. Of course you can also get to the museum by yourself and participate in this tour. Let a competent museum's guide show you the highlights of the world-famous Greek, Roman and Babylonian collection. Discover the reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Pergamon Altar and the Market Gate of Miletus.

 

 

Berlin City Tour including "Berlin from below"

 

Start: Seminaris CampusHotel Dahlem

Duration: 4 hours (including 90 min. "Berlin from below")

Costs: 33 €

Ancillary to a City tour participants visit Berlin from below. Since 1997 the Berlin Underground Association is offering tours, which allow you to experience Berlin and its history from a very different perspective.

 

 

Berlin City Tour including "Story of Berlin"     Start: Seminaris CampusHotel Dahlem Duration: 4 hours (including 2 hours "Story of Berlin") Costs: 37 €

Steffen Rehm, 13.8.1961

Ancillary to a City tour participants visit the interactive exhibition "Story of Berlin". You will experience an exciting journey through 800 years of history in 23 theme rooms, equipped with up-to-date animation technology and walk through sets. Museum completely different! Included is a tour through an original bunker from the times of the Cold War, hidden below the Kurfürstendamm.

 

 

Half-day trip to Potsdam

 

  Florian Lindner, August 2005

 

Start: Seminaris CampusHotel Dahlem

Duration: 4 hours

Costs: 37 €

Only a stone's throw away from Berlin-Dahlem the ancient residence- and garrisontown Potsdam is beautifully situated at the Havel shore. The gorgeous palaces and royal parks are world-famous. The excursion contains a guided tour through one of the castles, probably Sanssouci (alternatively: New Palace, New Chambers etc.), a walk through its garden (depending on the weather conditions), a round trip through the historic core of Potsdam with the Dutch Quarter and a visit of the former Russian dependency Alexandrowka.

 

 

Day trip to Dresden

 

  Dr. Thorsten Henning, September 2005

 

Start: Seminaris CampusHotel Dahlem

Duration: 11 hours

Costs: 40 € (+ 25 € three-course meal - optional)

Discover the famous Saxonian metropolis Dresden within an extensive sightseeing tour by bus and feet. Admire the architectural treasures like the Zwinger, the Semperoper, the Hofkirche, the Dresden Castle, the Brühl's Terrace and the Frauenkirche. Afterwards you will have time to discover the town on your own or to visit one of the museums. Please note that ticket reservation is necessary, if you intend to visit the famous Historic Green Vault, which contains the treasure of August II the Strong. Optionally you can also book lunch.

 

 

Day trip to Stralsund with Ozeaneum

 

  Simon Koopman, Februar 2008

 

Start: Seminaris CampusHotel Dahlem or Berlin Hauptbahnhof (will be posted in time)

Duration: ca. 12 hours

Costs: 85 €

Travel to the Hanseatic city of Stralsund and discover the "European Museum of the Year 2010", the Ozeanum which visualizes a fascinating underwater journey through the northern seas. The charge includes entrance fee to all three museums (Ozeaneum, Nautineum, "Meeresmueseum"), guided tour by a scientist from "Meeresmuseum" with look behind the scenes, three-course lunch at Ozeaneum and journey by bus or train.

 

Student information

To encourage student participation in the congress, a reduced congress fee is offered to student participants.
 

Students that are official members of the GfBS can apply for a travel grants up to 100 Euros. Please send your application to Monika Steinhof including a statement of your financial situation (lack of other funding opportunities, e.g. DFG).

Students that do not hold a Ph.D and are official member of the DBG or whose supervisor is official member of the DBG can apply for financial support for registration and travel expenses. Please contact: Dirk Albach.

Please note that these grants are competitive and the societies reserve the right to decide in favour of students with the greatest needs.

 

ICSEB-Student Award

Congress organizers provide funding to allow young and early career researchers dealing with a subject related to one of the five major conference topics (especially Ph.D.-students) to attend the BioSystematics Berlin 2011. All successful applicants will be required to give a talk at the conference and submit an abstract for conference volume.

Organizers offer complete release of congress fee, which includes lunch and coffee breaks during all conference days, icebreaker and social evening. Award-winning students will be accommodated in the guesthouse of the Botanic Garden free of charge. For students from overseas we additionally offer a travel support of up to 200 € each.

To apply for an award, please submit:

• Abstract of your presentation to be delivered at the Congress
• A description of your current work on biodiversity or evolutionary topics including a list of your publications as well as your motivation to attend the BioSystematics Berlin 2011 (maximum one page)
• Your postal and email address, your current employment or status, contact details and short statement of your supervisor and/or one referee, and any other relevant information (for example research collaboration)

Applications should be sent (preferably via email attachment) by 1 October 2010 to the congress office:

Birgit Nordt
Congress Office "BioSystematics Berlin 2011"
Freie Universität Berlin
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum
Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8
14195 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49/30/838 50 383
Fax: ++ 49/30/841 729 52
E-mail: berlin2011@bgbm.org

 

See PDF here.

 

 

Proceedings

Information coming soon.

Scientific Advisory Committee

Prof. Dr. Dan Brooks
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Toronto, Canada

Prof. Dr. Chris B. Cameron
Sciences biologiques
University of Montréal, Canada

Dr. Dan Faith
Division of Research & Collections
Australian museum, Sydney, Australia

Prof. Dr. Georgia Kamari
Department of Biology
University of Patras, Greece

Prof. Dr. Sigrid Liede-Schumann
Department of Plant Systematics
University of Bayreuth, Germany

Prof. Dr. Diana L. Lipscomb
Department of Biological Sciences
George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA

Prof. Dr. Wouter Los
Zoological Museum (Institute for Systematics and Population Biology)
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Nobuhiro Minaka
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
University of Tokyo, Japan

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Minelli
Department of Biology
University of Padua, Italy

Prof. Dr. Mario de Pinna
Museu de Zoologia
University of São Paulo, Brasil

Prof. Dr. Jorge Soberón
Division of Ornithology
University of Kansas, USA

Prof. Dr. Tod Stuessy
Faculty Centre of Biodiversity
University of Vienna, Austria

Dr. Brian Tindall
German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ),
Braunschweig, Germany

Prof. Dr. Benito Valdés
Department of Organism Biology and Ecology
University of Sevilla, Spain

Prof. Dr. Marvalee H. Wake
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Prof. Dr. James B. Woolley
Department of Entomology
Texas A&M University, USA