XXVII International Meeting of the Willi Hennig Society

The meeting is getting closer!

Some people asked about flights to Tucumán… and yes, it is a pain in the neck, as we the locals verify every time we have to attend a meeting anywhere else. This time it's your turn! One of the good offers to fly to Tucumán is with a new company, Andes Líneas Aereas, whose web page is at www.andesonline.com.

We still don't have the final program (the deadline for reception of abstracts was extended, at the request of many people, and we are still receiving abstracts), but we do know some details…

The meeting will be starting in the morning of the 28th, at the Hotel Sol (http://www.hotelsolsanjavier.com.ar). All the talks, and the banquet (night of the 30th) will be held at the Hotel Sol. The Hotel Sol is up in the hill, west of the city of San Miguel de Tucumán. We will try to be at the airport for incoming flights, but just in case you're on your own, you can tell the taxi driver to go to the "Hotel Sol, Cerro San Javier". See map below.

The only other venue is going to be the Instituto Lillo (adress: Miguel Lillo 205, it's near the "Abasto" –the neighborhood is known by that name because the "Abasto" market used to be there). We will have a reception there the day before the meeting (as usual for Hennig meetings), that is, the evening of the 27th, and begin with registrations. At the Instituto Lillo, registration will start from 5pm, the reception will start after 6:30pm, of Monday October 27th.

If you have not yet registered for the Hotel, you should. The hotel is a lovely place, and it is not expensive. It is not very big, so we may run out of rooms. They have been holding some rooms for us, but they won't hold them for much longer. Don't risk missing it! If no more rooms are available when you try to book, and you have to get a room down town (and the "down" here is quite literal), we will be providing transportation to the Hotel everyday, with a bus which will fit about 40 people. Otherwise, you can just take a taxi (from the center, it's about 20 dollars, so that splitting among three people should be rather cheap).

VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Micologia

Noviembre 10-13 2008
Mar del Plata, Argentina

VIII Reunión Latinoamericana de Scarabeidología

INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA, A.C.
XALAPA, VERACRUZ, MEXICO

OCTUBRE 13-17, 2009



El Instituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), convoca a los interesados en participar en la VIII Reunión Latinoamericana de Escarabeidología (RELAS),

que se llevará a cabo en Xalapa, Veracruz, MEXICO, del 13 al 17 de octubre del 2009

COMITÉ ORGANIZADOR

Dr. Aristeo Cuauhtémoc Deloya López (cuauhtemoc.deloya@inecol.edu.mx)

Dr. Pedro Reyes-Castillo (pedro.reyes@inecol.edu.mx)

Dr. Mario Enrique Favila Castillo (mario.favila@inecol.edu.mx)

más información aquí >>>

Posición Postdoctoral en Genómica comparativa

El Laboratorio de Bacteriologia Molecular, Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, Cinvestav Unidad Irapuato (Dr. Gabriela Olmedo Alvarez) en colaboración con el Laboratorio de Evolución Molecular y Experimental, Instituto de Ecología UNAM (Dra. Valeria Souza) invita a científicos que hayan recibido recientemente el grado de Doctor en Ciencias para que se integren al Cinvestav Unidad Irapuato para realizar una estancia postdoctoral por 12 meses, con posibilidades de extenderse por un periodo más.

Proyecto: Genómica comparativa de aislados bacterianos de Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila.

Requisitos: Formación en Biología Molecular, habilidad computacional (UNIX, MySQL, PERL) con interes de aprender métodos de anotación y comparación de genomas.

Dedicación de tiempo completo a la investigación.

Solicitudes: Los candidatos interesados deben enviar su CV a: golmedo@ira.cinvestav.mx, con atención a la Dra. Gabriela Olmedo

Para su financiamiento la solicitud postdoctoral será preparada en conjunto con el aspirante y será presentada en la próxima convocatoria del CONACyT (Estancias Posdoctorales Vinculadas al Fortalecimiento de la Calidad del Posgrado Nacional)

Gabriela Olmedo

Depto. de Ingeniería Genética

AP 629 Irapuato, Gto. 36500

Tel. (462) 6239663 golmedo@ira.cinvestav.mx

IV International Rubiaceae (Gentianales) Conference

October 19-24, 2008. Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

The "Instituto de Biologia, UNAM" and the "Instituto de Ecologia, A.C." are pleased to announce that the fourth Rubiaceae Conference will be held in the Clavijero Botanical Garden of the Institute of Ecology in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. This meeting will include papers and posters on the taxonomy, phylogeny and classification, morphology and anatomy, floristics, ecology and biogeography within Rubiaceae or other Gentianales. We particularly encourage students to submit the results of their work.

Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2008.
Please visit www.ibiologia.unam.mx/rubiaceas/index.htm
For further questions, contact ivrubiaceae@ibiologia.unam.mx

Resultados de la encuesta: que programa usa?

Aquí están los resultados de las preferencias sobre el uso de programas para la reconstrucción filogenética.
El programa favorito es PAUP, seguido de TNT y WinClada.

Durante Junio, Julio y Agosto participaron 53 votantes.
Muchas gracias por su participación.
Que otra encuesta sugieren?