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8 de marzo de 2011

ASPT Research Grants for Graduate Students in Systematics

American Society of Plant Taxonomists
2011 Research Grants for Graduate Students

The ASPT is pleased to announce the Society’s annual competition for research grants
for graduate student investigators. Support is available for both masters and doctoral
students to conduct fieldwork, herbarium studies, and/or laboratory research in any area
of plant systematics. No award will exceed $1000, and it is unlikely that proposals from
previous recipients will be funded. Proposals will be funded on the basis of merit,
regardless of the research area within systematics.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Society’s Awards and Honors Committee and must
include the following:

1. Curriculum vitae;
2. Proposal (the text, including figures but excluding literature cited, should
not exceed two single-spaced pages) that describes the research to be conducted,
emphasizing the role the grant funds will play;
3. Itemized budget;
4. A letter of recommendation from the student’s major professor or primary
research facilitator at the time of the proposal.

Eligibility: Applicants must be members of ASPT at the time of the application
deadline. Details regarding ASPT membership can be found at the ASPT homepage
(http://www.aspt.net/index.php).

Proposal submission: Proposal materials and letters of recommendation must be
submitted electronically as pdf files. Items 1-3 above should be submitted as a single
document. Use the following formats for filenames for the proposal materials and
reference letter, respectively:

student name_proposalASPT.pdf
student name_letterASPT.pdf.

All application materials should be submitted to Chelsea Specht via e-mail to
cdspecht at berkeley.edu

A list of past awardees and research topics can be found at
http://www.aspt.net/society/funding/gradstudentgrants.php

Submission deadline for all materials: 9 March 2011.





This message was sent from the ASPT Business Office:

Ms. Linda Brown
Business Office Manager
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
University of Wyoming
Department of Botany 3165
1000 E University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071

Telephone: (307) 766-2556
Fax: (307) 766-2851
Email: aspt at uwyo.edu
URL ASPT: http://www.aspt.net/
URL Systematic Botany: http://www.sysbot.org
Online Application: https://extranet.sheridan.com/aspt/

"Making comparative methods as easy as ABC" on Phyloseminar.org


Brian O'Meara

RESCHEDULED:

Brian O'Meara speaks Wednesday, March 30th at 11am PST on "Making comparative methods as easy as ABC"

For decades, biologists have addressed evolutionary and ecological questions using measurements of species traits, phylogenies, and an assortment of comparative methods. Unfortunately, while there is a large assortment of these methods, they are still fairly limited and development of new methods is slow. It took seven years between the introduction of using a simple Brownian motion model for looking at trait evolution (Felsenstein, 1985) and the use of this same model for looking at rates of trait evolution (Garland, 1992), and an additional 14 years to more powerful tests using a small modification of the basic model (O'Meara et al., 2006). Still other promising methods are described and even tested but remain unavailable to empiricists because they are not put into software. As a result, the questions empiricists can ask about the world are limited by the research productivity of the few dozen scientists who develop and implement new methods in phylogenetics. We describe a new approach based on Approximate Bayesian Computation and implemented in R that will allow researchers to easily develop their own models for trait evolution without requiring them to have specialized mathematical or computational knowledge.

http://phyloseminar.org./


TaXmeX: Colección bibliográfica sobre taxonomía publicada en México ¡en línea!




TaXmeX: Colección bibliográfica sobre taxonomía publicada en México

¡Ya está disponible en línea!
Coleccion artículos taxonómicos publicados en México durante el siglo XX, esta base contiene cerca del 90% de la información producida sobre taxonomía en México durante el siglo XX y tiene aplicación histórica y taxonómica. Consta de 57 revistas capturadas, 28 revistas examinadas, 1079 volúmenes analizados, 1329 números analizados, 6578 artículos capturados, 6150 artículos analizados, 79,294 páginas totales, 2460 autores capturados, 2331 autores analizados pertenecientes a 44 países y 164 instituciones mexicanas, y 31 tipos de trabajo taxonómico, por mencionar los más importantes.

Ya está cargada el 100% de la información estamos en la fase de validación y normalización. En breve iniciaremos la actualización, fase en la que completaremos la bibliografía publicada a partir del año 2000.
Disponible en:

Mas información:

Michán, L., & Llorente, J. (2003). La taxonomía en méxico durante el siglo XX. Publ. Esp. Mus. Zool , 13 , 1-250.
URL http://sistemas.fciencias.unam.mx/\~layla/2003/tesisdoctoradolayla.pdf

22 de febrero de 2011

Workshop on Molecular Evolution, North America 2011

Workshop on Molecular Evolution, North America 2011


Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

24 July - 6 August 2011

Application Deadline: 15 May was the preferred application deadline, after which time people will be admitted to the course following review of applications by the admissions committee. However, later applications are accepted.

http://www.molecularevolution.org/workshops/WME

Michael P. Cummings, Scott A. Handley and Kendra Nightingale, Co-Directors

The Workshop consists of a series of lectures, demonstrations and computer laboratories that cover various aspects of molecular evolution. Faculty are chosen exclusively for their effectiveness in teaching theory and practice in molecular evolution. Included among the faculty are developers and other experts in the use of computer programs and packages such as BEAST, *BEAST, DataMonkey, FigTree, Genealogical Sorting Index, GARLI, HyPhy, LAMARC, MAFFT, MrBayes, and SeaView who provide demonstrations and consultations.

For more information and online application see the Workshop web site -

http://www.molecularevolution.org/workshops/WME

25 de enero de 2011

Phylogeny.fr Robust Phylogenetic Analysis For The Non-Specialist


Phylogeny.fr es un servicio en linea para la reconstrucción filogenética con datos moleculares.

Phylogeny.fr procesa y conecta varios programas para reconstruir un árbol filogenético a partir de una matriz de secuencias.

No solo hay la opción "One click", tambien uno puede decidir como hacer cada paso en el alineamiento y la reconstrucción ("Advanced"). Incluso hay una opción para generar una cadena de análisis especial sin los parametros automatizados: "A la Carte" Mode. Por ejemplo, uno puede seleccionar un alineamiento con Muscle, T-Coffee, ProbCons, o ClustalW y seleccionar una de las cuatro opciones disponibles para construccion del arbol: Maximum likelihood con PhyML, Parsimonia con TNT, Distancias con ProtDist/FastDist+BioNJ (o Neighbor) y probabilidades Bayesianas con MrBayes.

No pude resistir la tentación de correr un análisis. Entre directamente a TNT y use la matriz de ejemplo con 16 secuencias Angiospermas y grupos externos. Click, click, click... listo un arbol de consenso, ahí en la ventana de dialogo, en menos de lo que canta un gallo!. Muy sencillo!


Este servicio esta disponible en http://www.phylogeny.fr/

17 de enero de 2011

XX Congreso Nacional de Zoología, México


La Sociedad Mexicana de Zoología, A. C., en coordinación con la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos y la Secretaria de Turismo del Estado de Morelos convocan a la comunidad científica a participar en el

XX Congreso Nacional de Zoología,
Cuernavaca, Morelos,
del 14 al 18 de noviembre de 2011.

Objetivos:
Reunir a investigadores, profesores y estudiantes interesados en el estudio, manejo y conservación de la fauna con la finalidad de intercambiar, analizar, evaluar y difundir los avances realizados en el conocimiento sobre zoología en México.

Entre los varios temas se incluye: Sistemática y Biogeografía.

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