IAPT Research Grants in Plant Systematics 2012

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 2011.
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, 2012.

Plant Systematics World. TAXON 60 (4) • August 2011: 1227–1229.
IAPT web site: http://www.iapt-taxon.org./s_grants.php

Curso: Evolutionary paleontology, evo-devo, and paleobiology

Curso: Evolutionary paleontology, evo-devo, and paleobiology

Curso de Postgrado de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina.

Evolutionary paleontology, evo-devo, and paleobiology

PhD. Michel Laurin

5 al 9 de diciembre de 2011

A dictarse en la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina,
Maipú 645 1er Piso CABA.
Buenos Aires

Mini-symposium on Bayesian inference of phylogeny, UC Berkeley

SYMPOSIUM / WORKSHOP on
Bayesian inference of phylogeny

Talks: Monday & Tuesday, August 15-16
Workshop: Wednesday to Friday, August 17-19

Where: UC Berkeley campus
(talks will be held in 155 Dwinelle Hall and the workshop will be held in 4110 VLSB)

There will be a mini-symposium on Bayesian inference of phylogeny to be held on the UC Berkeley campus from August 15th to 19th. There will be two days of talks (August 15th and 16th) on various aspects of Bayesian inference as it applies to the phylogeny problem. The following three days will be a workshop for people interested in developing for the RevBayes program. RevBayes implements an R-like language for specifying complex evolutionary models and (attempts) to perform solid statistical estimation of a model's parameters.

web site: http://cteg.berkeley.edu/events/201108Symposium.html