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A range of business meetings and other events will take place during the Congress, some at the Congress venue, others offsite.
If you want to organise an additional meeting for your society or organisation please download the additional meeting booking form.
Charges will apply for Audiovisual and Catering requests. A room hire fee may also apply if the room booking falls outside the room schedule required for the main Congress.
| The Eternal Order in Nature: The Science of Botanical Illustration Exhibition. |
| Hosted by: |
Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Inc |
| Dates: |
18 July - 7 August 2011 |
| Venue: |
Domain House
Dalls Brooks Drive, South Yarra
(opp. Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne) |
| Website: |
www.eternalorderinnature.net |
Exhibition
Enquiries: |
Telephone: +61 (0) 3 9650 6398
Email: friends@frbgmelb.org.au |
| Overview: |
Thirty of the country's leading botanical illustrators have been invited to exhibit a body of work which focuses on a particular project and/or study of a plant species. The exhibition will also highlight some key Australian historical figures in botanical illustration whose works have provided a rich and important foundation for the continued growth of this discipline.
In summary the exhibition aims to:
- Generate an awareness of botanical illustration as a means of documenting and recording information, and highlight the value of this information in scientific research.
- Highlight botanical illustration's historical and ongoing contributions in shaping and educating our understanding of Australian flora.
- Showcase the talent and skills of scientific botanical illustration in Australia to the international scientific community attending the Congress and the general public.
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| BOTANICAL LATIN WORKSHOP - Professor Thomas V Jacobs |
| Cancelled |
| International Association for Plant Taxonomy Council Meeting
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| Dates: |
Sunday 24 July 2011 |
| Time: |
0830-1800 |
| Organisation: |
International Association for Plant Taxonomy |
| Contact: |
Tod Stuessy |
| Room: |
101-102 |
| Australian Systematic Botany Society Council Meeting
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| Dates: |
Sunday 24 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1300-1630 |
| Organisation: |
ASBS |
| Contact: |
Peter Weston |
| Room: |
107 |
| SPP World Flora Committee Meeting
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| Dates: |
Monday 25 July 2011 |
| Time: |
0900-1700 |
| Organisation: |
Species Plantarum Programme - World Flora |
| Contact: |
Gideon Smith |
| Room: |
101-102 |
| Species Plantarum World Flora committee meeting |
| Dates: |
Monday 25 July 2011 |
| Time: |
0900 - 1700 |
| Analysis of the Terrestrial Flora and Fauna of the Tampakan Project Area Mindanao, Philippines
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| Dates: |
Monday 25 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1200 - 1330 |
| Room: |
204 |
| Speakers: |
Juleen Blunt, ESIA Manager, Tampakan Copper-Gold Project
David Robertson, Cumberland Ecology
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| RSVP: |
Karen Bonesch via email on kbonesch@xstratacopper.com |
| Comment:
View invitation
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Lunch will be provided to all who register to attend.
Seats may be available on the day however for catering purposes we request that you RSVP prior to the event.
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| APPF Executive Management Committee meeting
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| Dates: |
Monday 25 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1600-1730 |
| Organisation: |
Australian Plant Phenomics Facility |
| Contact: |
Alyssa Weirman Ph: 0431 960 252 |
| Room: |
108 |
| International Association of Bryologists - Meet and Greet |
| Dates: |
Monday 25 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1800-2000 |
| Venue: |
Mueller Hall, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Birdwood Ave, South Yarra 3141 |
| Contacts: |
Pina Milne pina.milne@rbg.vic.gov.au or
Niels Klazenga niels.klazenga@rbg.vic.gov.au |
| Comment: |
Note: this event is free of charge.
All bryologists attending the International Botanical Congress are invited to an informal 'meet and greet'. |
| Room: |
106 |
| Update for Eucalyptus Breeders
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| Dates: |
Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1200-1700 |
| Organisation: |
EUCAGEN |
| Contact: |
William Foley |
| Room: |
101-102 |
| Networking |
| Dates: |
Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1600-1800 |
| Organisation: |
International Organisation of Palaeobotany |
| Contact: |
Bob Hill |
| Room: |
205 |
| IAPT 'Taxon' Editors' Meeting |
| Dates: |
Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1800-2100 |
| Organisation: |
IAPT- Taxon Editors' Meeting |
| Contact: |
Mary Endress |
| Room: |
107 |
| Technical Advisory Committee Meeting - Tree Genetics |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
0900-1600 |
| Organisation: |
The Southern Breeding Association Inc |
| Contact: |
Peter Cunningham |
| Room: |
216 |
| Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) AGM |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1330 - 1600
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| Promotion of Micro-CT in plant studies |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
1330 - 1500 |
| Organisation: |
University of Vienna |
| Contact: |
Yannick Marc Staedler |
| Room: |
107 |
| C4 Rice Consortium |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
1300-1800 |
| Organisation: |
Australian Plant Phenomics Facility |
| Contact: |
Bob Furbank - 429820539 |
| Room: |
206 |
| Australian Systematic Botany Society Annual General Meeting |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
1330-1600 |
| Organisation: |
Australian Systematic Botany Society |
| Contact: |
Peter Weston |
| Room: |
101-102 |
| Notify IMCXIX site and elect officers |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
1400-1500 |
| Organisation: |
IABMS Committee Meeting |
| Contact: |
Meredith Blackwell |
| Room: |
205 |
| Ericaceae Discussion Group |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
1400-1600 |
| Organisation: |
Australian Tropical Herbarium |
| Contact: |
Darren Crayn |
| Room: |
106 |
| Discussion and planning of eFLOWER project |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
1400-1800 |
| Organisation: |
eFLOWER Consortium |
| Contact: |
Hervé Sauquet |
| Room: |
214 |
| Apocynaceae Discussion Group |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July |
| Time: |
1500-2000 |
| Organisation: |
Apocynaceae Workshop |
| Contact: |
Mary Endress |
| Room: |
107 |
| International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies committee meeting |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1330 - 1600 |
| Micro-CT: a new, powerful and non-destructive tool for the study of plant structure |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1330-1500 |
| Venue: |
Melbourne Convention Centre room 107 |
| Organiser: |
Yannick M Staedler, Jürg Schönenberger |
| Hosted by: |
Department of Structural and Functional Botany of the University of Vienna |
| Website: |
http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/sfb/ |
| Enquiries: |
Telephone: +43 (1) 4277 54084 |
| Email: |
yannick.staedler@univie.ac.at |
| Overview: |
The use of micro X-Ray Computed Tomography (micro-CT) on plant tissue has been long limited by the low density (X-Ray absorption) of most plant tissues. However, new, non-destructive preparation methods now allow visualization, in 3 dimensions, at micron precision, of all to-date studied plant material. A new field of opportunities is thus opening up.
Micro-CT can be applied to samples that are difficult to study via serial sectioning or electron microscopy. It can also provide quantitative traits that can be regressed against gene expression or sequence. Moreover it can be applied to the study of pollination, where matches between pollinator and flower morphologies can be very precisely quantified.
The aim of this meeting is to promote these methods by bringing together the people that established them with people that would like to make use of them, and to discuss feasibility. Any interested person is warmly welcome to attend. The methods will be briefly presented and a discussion round will follow. |
| Sy Sohmer - Making a botanical institute (nearly) from scratch |
| Cancelled |
| IdentifyLife Launch |
| Date: |
Thursday 28 July |
| Location: |
Exhibition, Ground Floor, MCEC |
| Booth No: |
27 |
| Time: |
1300 - 1330 |
| Overview: |
IdentifyLife, funded by the Atlas of Living Australia, the Encyclopaedia of Life and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is a collaborative workspace that:
- Brings together in one place a wide range of identification tools to help people throughout the world identify living organisms
- Creates a space where the world's community of experts and enthusiasts can help manage identification keys and descriptive information about organisms
- Works towards an ambitious key - the Key to All Life - to all the world's living organisms.
IdentifyLife is global in scope and encompasses all organisms, but is flexible enough that individual taxonomists or small teams can use it to build identification keys and descriptive resources for any group of organisms.
The launch of IdentifyLife at the International Botanical Congress is designed to introduce IdentifyLife and its potential to the world wide botanical community. Participants at the launch will be able to create accounts and begin using IdentifyLife immediately.
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| International Association of Wood Anatomists Social Hour and Business Meeting |
| Dates: |
Thursday 28 July |
| Time: |
1900 |
| Venue: |
Rendezvous hotel, 328 Flinders Street, Melbourne |
| Tickets: |
AUD 30 (Includes buffet and drinks) |
| Contact: |
Frederic Lens lens@nhn.leidenuniv.nl
Steven Jansen steven.jansen@uni-ulm.de |
| Wendy Silk - Song of Botany |
| Dates: |
(1) Jam session Monday 25 July 2011, 1830-2030;
(2) Performance Friday 29 July 2011, 1230-1330 |
| Room: |
101-102 |
| Organiser: |
Wendy Silk (wksilk@ucdavis.edu) |
| Comment: |
The HearUBEST project and the ArtScience program at University of California Davis Sing of Botany challenge: to write and perform songs that celebrate botanical highlights since the last IBC in 2005. Musicians, composers, poets: can you write a song to communicate the emerging themes in botany?
IBC conveners, historians and journalists: can you identify the scientific breakthroughs since IBC2005?
Singers and instrumentalists: can you perform a song to commemorate the activities of IBC2011?
Interested delegates are invited to join the jam session /song writing session on Monday 25 July.
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| Triticeae discussion group |
| Dates: |
Friday 29 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1230 - 1330 |
| Organiser: |
International Triticeae Consortium |
| Contacts: |
Mary Barkworth |
| Room: |
107 |
| New Research Tools for Illuminating the Ecology and Evolution of Orchids - Workshop |
| Dates: |
Saturday 30 July 2011 |
| Venue: |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne (transport will be provided) |
| Organisers: |
Prof Rod Peakall (ANU), Dr Ryan Phillips (ANU) and Prof Florian Schiestl (Zurich) |
| Website: |
http://biology.anu.edu.au/OrchidWorkshop/ |
| Enquiries and bookings: |
rod.peakall@anu.edu.au |
| Second International Workshop on the Taxonomy of the Convolvulaceae |
| Cancelled |
| ETHNOBOTANISTS ? |
For Australian Indigenous Ethnobotany contact:
Dr Beth Gott,
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences,
Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3800.
E-mail: beth.gott@monash.edu
(03)9905 5605, Home (03)8352 2382
Visits to Monash University Aboriginal Garden can be arranged |
| eFLOWER working group |
| Dates: |
Wednesday 27 July 2011 |
| Time: |
1530 - 1800 |
| Venue: |
Melbourne Convention Centre (room to be advised) |
| Organiser: |
Dr Hervé Sauquet (Paris) |
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