Phylogeny and diversity of land plants and fungi

Course objective

The goal is to gain basic knowledge of recently established phylogenetic lineages in the land plants and fungi and based thereon of essential understanding of modern insights in the morphological characterization, the origin and evolutionary development of the main clades and the angiosperm pollen.
The following items will be discussed and demonstrated:

• – Changing views on phylogenetic relations within the land plants and fungi
  
• – Overview of morphological and taxonomic diversity and morphological characterization of the presently accepted main clades
  
• – Present insights in and disputes over key innovations, and functional characterizations (adaptations)
  
• – State of the art overview of the various uses by mankind of the taxa and of the applications of these fields of knowledge
  

Remarks

Language: Dutch (English in case foreign MSc-students participate).

Coordinator

Dr.M.Roos,

Time table

Sept. 22-26: Mosses and Ferns
Sept. 29 – Oct. 2: Angiosperm pollen
Oct. 6-10: Fungi

Website: http://studiegids.leidenuniv.nl/en/courses/show/16935/phylogeny-and-diversity-of-land-plants-and-fungi

4th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny

4th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny,
September 18 - 20, 2009

The Dresden Meetings on Insect Phylogeny are dedicated to a broad variety of topics concerning phylogeny reconstruction in Insecta; this includes both the interordinal and intraordinal levels, both morphological and molecular work, and both extant and fossil taxa, as well as occasional methodological contributions. The 4th Dresden Meeting on Insect Phylogeny (2009) will have a strong focus on key taxa and key characters insects; this will also include some presentations on fossil key taxa. The about 30 oral contributions, all in English, will be presented by invited high-profile specialists.

Organized by

Klaus-Dieter Klass (Museum für Tierkunde Dresden)
Niels Peder Kristensen (Zoological Museum Copenhagen)

Contact: insectphyl2009 (at) snsd.de - Please copy and paste this addess, replace "(at)" by "@"

Molecular evolution and phylogenetics

Primer on Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

http://www.biomed.cam.ac.uk/gradschool/current/courses/phylogeny.html

Dr Hernan Javier Dopazo and Leonardo Daniel Arbiza Brustin

Pharmacogenomics & Comparative Genomics Unit, Bioinformatics Department, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain

Dates: 5th-7th October 2009
Time: 9.30am-5pm
Venue: Genetics Room G12 (map)
Maximum number: 20
Codes: BM02
Credits: 6

Bookings are made via the online booking form.