Symposia, Colloquia and Special Addresses

Follow the links for abstract and sponsors for the following symposia
Stay tuned for day and time of the talks.

Plenary Symposium: Protecting the Diversity of Plants

A historical perspective on Chicago Area botany

Borrowed Chloroplasts: Secondary Endosymbiosis and the Chromalveolates

Comparative Algal and Byrophyte Physiology

Comparative Genomics, Development, Physiology and Systematics of the Brassicaceae and Cleomaceae

Conservation Biology of Eastern Tallgrass Prairie: integrating issues of management and restoration for the 21st Century

Deep Time: integrating paleobotany and phylogenetics

Emerging Model Species for Developmental, Evolutionary and Functional Analyses

Evolution and diversification in the Sapindales

Evolution in a Glaciated Landscape: Contribution of Endemism to Great Lakes Biodiversity

Evolution of flower development: from phenotypes to genes

Ferns on Oceanic Islands - from dispersal to long lasting diversity

Integrating Plant Systematics

Integration of spatial and ecological data in evolutionary studies

Molecules to morphology: Developing an understanding of plant evolution through time

Paradigm Shifts in Systematic Biology from Linnaeus to the Present (1707-2007): Has Anything Really Changed?

Plant Photoreceptors and Photomorphogenesis

Plant phylogenomics: defining synergies between plant systematics and genome biology

Plant-fungal Interactions

PlantingLearning: active learning in botany

Ranunculales - a basal eudicot perspective of angiosperm evolution

Sherwin Carlquist Symposia

The evolution and maintenance of mixed mating systems

The functional significance of leaf shape variation - towards a consensus from gene to community