"Extending the Darwinian Panorama"
Veracruz, Mexico
5-10 July 2009
Join us for modern panoramas in systematic and evolutionary biology!Celebrating 150 years since publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, plus observing 150 years since the passing of Alexander von Humboldt, the Father of ecological biogeography.
The International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB) is convened approximately every six years, the last one having being held in Patras, Greece, in 2002.
The scope of these congresses is to bring plant, animal, and microbial systematists and evolutionary biologists together to discuss and debate topics of general interest. 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
Registration Fees: Regular participant $US 395 / Developing country participant $US 250 / Student participant $US 100 For more information, see the ICSEB VII website (http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/ICSEB7/) or contact icseb.evol@univie.ac.at
