BSA Announcement Board

• The Historical Section of the Botanical Society of America will be awarding the Emanuel D. Rudolph Award for the best student paper on a historical subject in botany at the annual meeting July 26-31 in Vancouver.  Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to consider presenting a paper, poster or symposium on a historical subject in botany to be eligible for this honor.  For more information, please contact Lee B.Kass. lbk7@cornell.edu, Co-chair, BSA Historical Section.
  
  
• The National Science Foundation would like to call your attention to an opportunity to request support for networks that will catalyze positive changes in biology undergraduate education - click here for more information.
  
  
• A Funding Opportunity Announcement has been issued by the that requests applications from the scientific community for the establishment of an initial suite of Energy Frontier Research Centers - click here for more information.
  
  
• Call for Proposals – NESCent Postdoctoral Fellows, Sabbatical Scholars, Working Groups and Catalysis Groups - Various deadlines below
  The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is now accepting proposals for postdoctoral fellows, sabbatical scholars, working groups and catalysis meetings. Proposals for postdoctoral fellowships are accepted at the December 1 deadline only. Proposals for sabbatical scholars, working groups and catalysis meetings are accepted twice a year, with June 15 and December 1 deadlines. Proposals for short-term visitors are considered four times a year, with deadlines on January 1, April 1, July 1 and September 1.
  For more information, please see our website at https://www.nescent.org/science/proposals.php
  

• 6th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Forensic Entomology - May 20-24, 2008, Crete
  This meeting of the European Association for Forensic Entomology aims to bring together different, disparate disciplines within the forensic biology field including forensic botany. For more information, please visit: http://new.eafe.org/EAFE_2008_files/second%20announcement_EAFE%202008.pdf
  
  
• First Edition "Temple of Flora" On Display-May 23 - August 17, 2008
  The exhibit "Temple of Flora" opens in the Lenhardt Library. A recent acquisition, Temple of Flora, along with other works by Robert John Thornton, will be on display. A free library talk, "Dr. Thornton's Folly," will be given on Saturday, June 21 at 2 p.m. Temple of Flora, or, Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher: Being, Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus includes thirty-one botanical and allegorical illustrations. Its brightly-colored plates are highly valued by print dealers, making an intact copy exceedingly rare. For more information and to search the library collections, visit www.chicagobotanic.org/library
  
  
• Integrating Evolution, Development and Genomics (IEDG) Conference -May 28-30, 2008, Berkeley, CA
  This student-organized meeting is the second iteration of the evo-devo meeting held at UC Berkeley in May 2006. The theme is the integration and intersection of evo-devo research, genomics, and a broad spectrum of complementary studies. The meeting schedule will include non-concurrent symposia featuring topics such as developmental biology, plant biology, paleontology, population genetics, genomics, and comparative morphology. In addition, the meeting will feature poster sessions, lunchtime workshops and an informal student-faculty dinner. Participants are invited to submit abstracts for consideration for talks and poster presentations. Please visit the website www.evodevo.org for more information including registration and abstract submission deadlines. Email questions to iedg2008@berkeley.edu

• 4th International Plant Dormancy Symposium - June 8-11, 2009, Holiday Inn Fargo, North Dakota
  For detailed information go to http://www.plantdormancy.com. The goal is to bring together experts and stakeholders in a forum for exchange of information on dormancy in plants, development of collaborations, and sharing of ideas on plant dormancy mechanisms in vegetative buds, seeds, and other meristems from a variety of experimental plant systems ranging from agronomic, horticultural, and tree crops to model plants and weeds. Email contact info@plantdormancy.com.

• Invasive Plant Symposium - June 12, 2008, Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens, Stanford, CT
  Featured Speakers Include: Dr. Charlotte Pyle, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service; Dr. Mark H Brand, Professor and Co-head of the Plant Biotechnology Facility at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; Dr. Wei Fang, Professor of Biology at Long Island University; Rebecca Grella, Doctoral Candidate at SUNY Stony Brook. Posters are now being accepted.
  Registration:  $15 Students $25 Non-Students, Lunch Included. To Register Call 203-322-6971 or email reception@bartlettarboretum.org
  Sponsored by Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens and Torrey Botanical Society
  

• 2008 Botanical Seminars - various summer 2008 dates, The Humboldt Institute, Steuben, Maine
  June 29 - July 5: Acrocarpous Mosses of the North Woods, Jon and Blanka Shaw
  June 15 - 21: Field Botany and Bioclimatology of the Coast of Maine, Gerard Courtin
  June 22 - 28: Submersed and Floating Aquatic Flowering Plants: Taxonomy, Ecology, and Management, C. Barre Hellquist
  July 13- 19: Sedges, Rushes, & Grasses: Advanced Taxonomy & Ecology of Wetland and Upland Species
  August 3 - 9: Ecology of Liverworts and Mosses, Nancy G. Slack and Paul G. Davison
  August 17 - 23: Taxonomy and Biology of Ferns and Lycophytes, Robbin C. Moran
  Descriptions of seminars may be found at http://www.eaglehill.us/mssemdes.html
  For more information, please contact the Humboldt Institute, PO Box 9, Steuben, ME 04680-0009. Phone 207-546-2821. Fax 207-546-3042
  E-mail - office@eaglehill.us
  Online general information may be found at http://www.eaglehill.us
  
  
• 2nd World Botanic Garden Scientific Congress: Challenges in Botanical Research & Climate Change - June 29th - July 4th, 2008, Delft, The Netherlands
  This global congress is organized by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the Botanic Garden of the Delft University of Technology. Themes include climate change, conservation, biodiversity, bionics, new systematics, and future issues. Abstracts for oral presentations are due February 15, 2008, and abstracts for poster presentations are due March 1, 2008. For additional information, please see www.tudelft.nl/wsc-botanicalresearch2008/.
  
  
• 3rd Meeting of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomencalture -July 21-23, 2008, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Meeting of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature (ISPN) will be held in conjunction with a joint meeting of the International Society of Protistologists and the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (https://protist2008.dal.ca/). In addition to featuring communications on the theory and practice of phylogenetic nomenclature, this meeting will be an opportunity to discuss the forthcoming release of the PhyloCode and publication of the Companion Volume, as well as development of the on-line registration database (REGNUM). All systematists interested in the development of phylogenetic nomenclature are welcome. Discussions and presentations at this meeting may influence the future development of the PhyloCode.  For questions, contact Harold Bryant, hbryant@royalsaskmuseum.ca
  

• The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) is currently at work creating a series of bioregional planting guides entitled Selecting Plants for Pollinators and is requesting photos of NATIVE plants and pollinators found in all areas of the U.S. Especially appreciated are photos from the Prairie Parkland Temperate Province, which includes parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.
   
  Please send the following photos (preferably in jpg format) with your permission to use in the guide (all photographers will be credited) to km@coevolution.org:
   
  1. A typical-looking natural landscape of the region
  2. A pollinator NATIVE to the region (bee, bird, bat, butterfly, or beetle)
  3. A typical-looking farm scene from the region
  5. Any other photos of the region's landscapes or pollinators (especially pollinators interacting with their host plants)
  

• Conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Interactions - August 2-3, 2008 in Milwaukee, WI
  A two-day conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Interactions will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on August 2-3, 2008, immediately prior to the Ecological Society of America annual meeting. The goal of this conference is to highlight the most exciting recent advances in community and evolutionary pollination biology, and foster interaction among pollination biologists. The conference aims to encourage a unified framework to the study of community and evolutionary approaches, and to draw attention to largely unexplored questions at the intersection of these disciplines. This two-day conference will feature 23 speakers from five continents, as well as a poster session. All conference attendees are encouraged to present a poster. For more information, please visit the conference web page: http://www3.uakron.edu/biology/pollination/
  
  
• IV Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Cacti and other Succulents and XXX Congress of the International Organization for the Study of Succulents
  - August 4-8, 2008, Natal, Brazil
  The joint meeting with the 59 Brazilian Botany Congress will be a unique opportunity to bring together experts on succulents from all over the world to present recent findings in the study of these plants, and more important, to encourage botanical investigations on Cactaceae and other families containing succulent species in Latin America and the Caribbean region. Featured keynote speakers include David Hunt, Roberto Kiesling, Teresa Terrazas-Salgado, Beat Ernst Leuenberger, Héctor Hernández Macías, Detlev Metzing, Alejandro Casa, Nigel Taylor and Daniela Zappi, among
  25 invited talks. For more information, including registration and the process for submitting contributing papers or posters, please access http://www.59cnbot.com.br/
  
  
• Grants for Ornamental Horticulture
  The Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust invites applications for grants up to $20,000 for support of education and research in ornamental horticulture. Not-for-profit botanical gardens, arboreta, and other tax-exempt organizations are eligible. The deadline for applications is August 15, 2008. For current guidelines, contact Thomas F. Daniel, Grants Director, SSHT at tdaniel@calacademy.org.

• Joint Congress of the 12th International Palynological Congress and the 8th International Organisation of Palaeobotany Conference
  - August 30 - September 6, 2008, Bonn, Germany
  Hosted at the University of Bonn under the auspices of the Arbeitskreis für Paläobotanik und Palynologie, the International Organisation of Palaeobotany, and the International Federation of Palynological Sciences. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: http://www.paleontology.uni-bonn.de/congress08/index.htm
  
  
• First International Ragweed Conference- September 10-12, 2008, Budapest, Hungary
  The main cause of allergy and pollen asthma in North America and Central Europe is pollen from ragweed (Ambrosia). The conference will focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of ragweed infestation. http://www.nki.hu/ragweed/index.html

• 19th New Phytologist Symposium -September 17-20, 2008, Aberdeen Scotland
  Physiological sculpture of plants: new visions and capabilities for crop development. http://www.newphytologist.org/physiological/default.htm
  
  
• International Banana and Plantain Conference - October 5-9, 2008, Mombasa, Kenya
  The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is organizing an Africa-based conference that will focus on banana and plantain research across Africa: lessons learnt and the way forward. Fostering international partnerships is a major objective of the conference, with particular emphasis to establish the role of research in promoting future commercial activities and trade in banana, plantain and ensete. There is an urgent need to target basic and applied research that connects to existing and emerging markets. This unique conference will be the first pan-African meeting to link research to markets in an African context. For more information, please visit www.banana2008.com

• The 6th Eastern Native Grass Symposium - October 7 - 10, 2008, Columbia, SC 
  The Symposium is sponsored by Clemson University and the South Carolina Native Plant Center.  We invite you to participate in this important forum on the many issues facing our wonderful native grasslands in the Eastern US and Canada.  We are planning an excellent array of plenary presenters, oral and poster presentations on research, outreach and experiences, hands-on applied workshops, and a set of field trips into the varied geography of our State.  A partial list of subject areas includes natural grassland communities, as well as management of grasslands for wildlife, livestock and bio-fuel potential.  The field trips will be a real treat.  South Carolina has been called the most bio-diverse state in the US, when you consider our small size. For more information about the Symposium, and a call for papers and other participation, see www.clemson.edu/~bstrngr/E_Native_Grass .

• Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society - January 8-12, 2009, Mérida, México
  Invited symposia will feature talks on the biogeography of disease, patterns and processes in biotic transition zones, disjunct distributions in Asia and America, and the biogeography of species extinction. Attendees are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The conference will also include workshops, field excursions, and social events. Registration, contact, and additional information may be found at: http://www.biogeography.org.
  

• 9th International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology - October 25-30, 2009, St. Louis, Missouri
  The conference will highlight a state-of-the-art view of research in plant molecular biology. In addition to keynote addresses and invited symposia, individuals are invited to submit abstracts for presentation as talks in concurrent sessions, or as posters. For more information visit http://www.ipmb2009.org or email ipmb2009@missouri.edu.