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10 de septiembre de 2008
VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Micologia
VIII Reunión Latinoamericana de Scarabeidología
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)
3 de septiembre de 2008
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
1 de septiembre de 2008
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?
El programa favorito es PAUP, seguido de TNT y WinClada.
27 de agosto de 2008
Conferencia Internacional de Biogeografia en Mexico
The Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Biogeography Society
The meeting will take place January 8-12, 2009 in Mérida, México.
Invited symposia will feature talks on the biogeography of disease, patterns and processes in biotic interchanges, 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.
26 de agosto de 2008
Cambio climático y Sistemática
Climate Change and Systematics
3 day meeting1st to 3rd of September 2008
A meeting organised by the Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
This meeting, organised on behalf of the Systematics Association and the Linnean Society, will provide a forum for systematists to present and discuss their research as it relates to the critical issue of Global Climate Change. The conference is open to everyone, whatever their chosen discipline within systematics.
This meeting will examine the problems posed by Global Climate Change and will centre on three themes: 1. Climate change and speciation/extinction; 2. Climate change and biogeography; 3. Climate change: documenting and conserving biodiversity.
We feel this meeting is timely because of interest in this topic at all levels in society, especially governmental. For example, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment states that 'By the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and its impacts may be the dominant direct driver of biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services globally' and 'Historically, habitat and land use change have had the biggest impact on biodiversity across biomes. Climate change is projected to increasingly affect all aspects of biodiversity, from individual organisms, through populations and species, to ecosystem composition and function'. The most recent IPCC report this year also highlights these issues. Therefore, global climate change needs to be addressed holistically by the systematics community.
Certainly the changes in the density and location of the World's biodiversity are likely to have impacts on speciation/extinction rates and on the ability of systematits to delimit, through Monographs, Faunas and Floras, the World's biodiversity.
Additional Information
More InformationMás allá de la Cladística
Beyond Cladistics: A Festschrift for Prof C J Humphries FLS
*Sandra Knapp FLS and David Williams FLS
Three-day Meeting
1st to 3rd of October 2008, 9:00 AM
As an approach to the discovery of phylogenetic relationships among organisms, cladistics took the systematics community by storm. According to David Hull, in his 1988 account of its history, cladistics was winning out everywhere; according to Colin Patterson, cladistics “began in the late 1960s, accelerated in the 1970s, and was virtually complete by the eighties”; in contrast, Gareth Nelson suggested that cladistics is suffering from “Arrested Development”. This symposium, entitled Beyond Cladistics, in honour of botanist Chris Humphries, will address some general issues relating to cladistics: its past, its present and its future – if, indeed, there is anything beyond cladistics itself.
Additional Information
Programme (pdf)Registration Form (pdf)
25 de agosto de 2008
Posiciones disponibles para taxonomos en el IISE
The International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) at Arizona State University invites applications for two unique tenured/tenure-track faculty positions at the intersection of life sciences and informatics. The IISE is dedicated to modernizing and advancing descriptive taxonomy and its collection and cyber infrastructures. We seek individuals with unusual vision to serve as ASU professors and as assistant directors of the institute. Positions are open rank, salaries commensurate with experience. Each position involves the use of effective leadership skills and a desire and capacity to work as part of a trans-disciplinary problem-solving team. The IISE, with partner museums and botanical gardens, is committed to identifying and removing obstacles to rapid progress in taxonomy. The successful candidates will join the director and existing assistant directors as the IISE leadership team. Each position includes 30% administration in IISE managing projects and partnerships, 30% teaching in the tenure home unit, and 40% research in area of expertise, related broadly to Institute goals.
Assistant Director for Monography and Inventories. The successful candidate must have an earned doctorate in systematic biology and demonstrated experience with descriptive taxonomy in a terrestrial or freshwater arthropod taxon. As assistant director, the successful candidate will coordinate interdisciplinary teams and advance projects with partner museums that include building international taxon knowledge communities, producing online monographic treatments, and undertaking large scale species inventories as well as work with IISE team to identify and remove impediments to taxonomy. Tenure home will be in School of Life Sciences.
Assistant Director for Taxonomic Cyberinfrastructure. The successful candidate must have an earned doctorate in computer science/engineering and demonstrated technical leadership for a domain specific cyberinfrastructure for taxonomy that will create and apply a new generation of tools, techniques and research environments that accelerate species exploration in all its phases. The successful candidate will both engage in projects with interdisciplinary teams of faculty, students, and partner institutions to conceive, engineer and prototype new digital tools and software as well as liaise with the Fulton School of Engineering faculty and external partners to recruit expertise appropriate to solve particular problems. Tenure home will be in the School of Computing and Informatics within the Fulton School of Engineering.
Please send CV, brief statement of interest, and names and e-mail addresses of four references to: Dr. Quentin Wheeler, Director, IISE c/o Ms. Shannon Keen at shannon.keen@asu.edu. Documents must be submitted in either Microsoft Word or PDF format. Review of applications will begin October 15, 2008, and continue until the search is closed. Nominations are welcomed. A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity.
Congreso internacional ICSEB en México

VII International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology ICSEB
The International Organization of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (IOSEB) extends an invitation to attend the VII International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, under the themes “Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth” and “Observing 150 years since the passing of Alexander von Humboldt”.
The congress will take place in Veracruz, Mexico on 6–10 July 2009. The program will consist of plenary lectures, symposia, and contributed papers and posters. Excursions to biologically interesting locations will also be available.
The focus of this congress, in context of significant historical backdrop, is on modern and forward-looking ideas, concepts, and methods in systematic and evolutionary biology. Due to its location, a strong emphasis will also be placed on understanding biodiversity in Latin America.
Confirmed plenary speakers and tentative titles include:
- Dan Brooks, Toronto, Canada, Comparative Phylogenetic Biology
- Michael Donoghue, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., Biodiversity
- Niles Eldredge, New York, U.S.A., Hierachical Theory of Evolution
- Harry Greene, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., Importance of Natural History in the 21st Century
- Michael Hammond, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., Evolution and the Social Sciences
- Tod Stuessy, Vienna, Austria, A Future for Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
- Eors Szathmary, Budapest, Hungary, Nervous System Evolution
- Christer Wiklund, Stockholm, Sweden, Experimental Studies of Evolutionary Mechanisms
- Ed Wiley, Kansas, U.S.A., The Phylogenetic Revolution
Financiamiento para proyectos en sistemática vegetal
The IAPT announces a competitive grants program in plant systematics, with emphasis on funding students and young investigators in developing countries, but open to applicants world-wide. The program is based on the submission of research projects, taking into consideration the following guidelines:
1. The grant application period is open until 31 December 2008.
2. The award should be preferably used for supporting field work, travel to institutions, or laboratory investigations.
3. General information should be always included on the front page (complete name of the applicant, country, institution, project title, academic degree, telephone, fax and e-mail).
4. The projects should include brief ideas of an introduction, materials, methods, objectives, literature citation and other relevant information, especially noting if any other financial support for the project exists.
5. The length of the proposals should not exceed three pages.
6. In the case of Ph.D. students, in addition to the proposal, two recommendation letters should be included.
7. The projects are to be submitted to:
Patricia Dávila-Aranda, preferably by e-mail (pdavilaa@servidor.unam.mx)
or by regular mail: Facultad de Estudios Superiores, Iztacala, UNAM, Av. de los Barrios no. 1, Los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla. Edo. de México 54090. México
8. Applicants will be informed by e-mail of receipt of their proposals.
9. The total amount to be awarded is: US$10,000.
10. The maximum individual award is US$1,000.
11. The awarded projects will be announced on the IAPT web page and by e-mail to all the applicants on March 1, 2009.
13 de agosto de 2008
Filogenia, Alometría y Evolución de las especies de Puya subgénero Puya (Bromeliaceae).
Aunque la familia Bromeliaceae ha mostrado ser monofilética, existen conflictos en la ubicación de algunos géneros, como Puya Molina, que muestra distribución principalmente en los andes suramericanos y agrupa alrededor de 195 especies. El género ha sido dividido taxonómicamente en dos subgéneros, Puyopsis (187 spp) y Puya (8 spp). En este trabajo se realizón un análisis filogenético con base en caracteres morfológicos, para determinar si el subgénero Puya es un grupo monofilético y para explorar si el carácter que define al subgénero, ápice estéril de las ramas de la inflorescencia, es una sinapomorfía para el grupo. Los resultados muestran que si es un grupo natural y está soportado por varias sinapomorfías dentro de las cuales está el carácter diagnóstico del subgénero.
8 de agosto de 2008
Libro de Filogenetica desde Argentina
http://www.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/catedras/taxonomia/material.html
ANALÍA A. LANTERI Y MARÍA MARTA CIGLIANO. (eds) 2004. Sistemática Biológica: fundamentos teóricos y ejercitaciones. EDULP. Argentina.
"Sistemática Biológica: fundamentos teóricos y ejercitaciones es un libro de texto organizado en 14 capítulos, cada uno de los cuales incluye una parte teórica y una serie de ejercicios prácticos. Los temas tratados comprenden aspectos clásicos de la práctica taxonómica, como la elaboración de claves dicotómicas, la organización de descripciones y la aplicación de los principios de la Nomenclatura Biológica. Se tratan también aspectos teórico-metodológicos relativos al análisis de datos moleculares, la aplicación de técnicas multivariadas para la delimitación de especies, el análisis cladístico y las aplicaciónes de la Cladística en otras ramas de la Biología Comparada. Las ejercitaciones están basadas principalmente en ejemplos de trabajos científicos realizados por las autoras de la obra, las cuales se desempeñan como docentes en la Cátedra de Introducción a la Taxonomía de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, de la UNLP. El texto está orientado a los alumnos que cursan dicha materia, pero puede ser de utilidad para estudiantes y profesionales que deseen iniciarse en la práctica de la Sistemática moderna."
Nuevamente, la pregunta es, ¿como podemos obtener un ejemplar de este libro?Si alguien en Argentina puede ayudar para comprar y enviar el libro a México, lo agradeceremos varios por aca!
4 de agosto de 2008
Analisis Filogenetico de 5 Familias de Micromurcielagos en la Cuenca del Lago de Cuitzeo Michoacan Mexico
Los quirópteros forman, después de los roedores, el segundo orden mas grande de los mamiferos, este orden incluye casi un cuarto de la diversidad de todos los mamiferos conocidos actualmente (916 especies). A pesar de la importancia de estos, sus relaciones evolutivas han permanecido escasamente estudiadas. Se analizo ADN con Marcadores Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR) para determinar las relaciones filogeneticas y de similitud entre 45 individuos capturados, de 15 especies pertenecientes a 5 familias: Molossidae, Vespertilionidae, Phylostomidae, Mormooptidae y Natalidae; Esta determinacion se baso en 172 loci obtenidos con 6 oligonucleotidos diseñados de forma aleatoria. Los dendogramas obtenidos por diferentes metodos mostraron una topologia poco consistente definida por clados debilmente soportados mostrando un alto grado de parafilia, concluyendo en la presencia de homoplasia demostrada por los valores de indice de consistencia (0.1652) e indice de homoplasia (0.8348) sugiriendo que el orden quiroptera representa un grupo complejo con muchos retos en cuanto a filogenia que requiere investigacion adicional.
Quiropteros ISSR Filogenia Sistematica Cordados 2008-06-26 13:57:25
Evaluacion de algunas regiones del ADNmt para analizar relaciones filogeneticas y variabilidad genetica en Cynomys mexicanus y Spermophilus spilosoma
Sistematica Resto de Animales 2008-04-29 01:57:15
