The Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture in Comparative Development committee would like to invite speaker nominations for the Botany 2013 Kaplan Memorial Lecture.  The information below describes the nomination process and the criteria used for selection.  Additional information about the lecture series.

Please address communications to the Kaplan Memorial Lecture Committee through Bill Dahl (wdahl@botany.org).  Deadline is December 31, 2012.

Nominations must include:

• (i) a short description of the research of the speaker,-
• (ii) a list of recent publications; and
• (iii) a brief statement of how the nominee fits the selection criteria.

Selection Criteria
The Kaplan Lecture speaker should be able to give a synthetic talk in the area of comparative development that reviews a topic for a general botanical audience while providing novel insights based on new or newly analyzed data. The following criteria will be used to rank and select from the nominees:

1. The speaker should be able to discuss a topic in the general area of comparative plant development.
2. The speaker should be able to frame the topic in way that it is of interest to a general botanical audience.
3. The speaker should be able to incorporate novel interpretations of recent or historical literature in the field, and
4. The speaker should have a significant body of research to draw upon from his/her own career.
   

Best wishes,

Darleen A. DeMason, Chair
Kaplan Memorial Lecture Committee

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