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Welcome.
It is a pleasure to invite you to the international conference "Systematics 2008" to be held in Goettingen, Germany, 7-11 April 2008. Systematics 2008 is the first joint meeting of the Gesellschaft fuer Biologische Systematik (GfBS) and the German Botanical Society, section "Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology" (DBG), being
the 10-th Annual Meeting of the GfBS and the 18-th International Symposium
"Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology" of the DBG.
Venue.
The congress will take place in the Central Lecture Hall Building
("Zentrales Hoersaalgebaeude", ZHG) of the University of Goettingen,
conveniently
located near the city centre at 5-10 minutes walking distance from the train
station.
Programme.
The conference programme will be very broad, covering biological
systematics in the widest sense and providing ample opportunities for oral and
poster presentations on new advances in plant, animal and microbial systematics.
Three plenary morning sessions with invited speakers will focus on "Progress in Deep Phylogeny", "Speciation and Phylogeography", and "New Trends in Biological
Systematics". Afternoon sessions will feature contributed talks and poster sessions. Sessions topics include fields such as Biodiversity and Conservation,
Biogeography, Coevolution, Lateral Gene Transfer, Molecular Clocks, Molecular
Evolution, Molecular Phylogeny, Morphology, Nomenclature, Palaeontology,
Phylogeny, Phylogeography, Radiation, Reticulate Evolution, Speciation,
Structure and Function, Taxonomy, etc. In addition, there will be ample room
for
workshops, business meetings, social gatherings, excursions, etc.
Conference language: English.
Robbert Gradstein and Rainer Willmann
Organizers
Official site of Symposium:
www.systematics2008.com !
Poster: PDF, 17 mb
