Welcome to the fifth international Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference
“Biodiversity in the light of historical information”
held at the Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stockholm, Sweden, September 6–10, 2010.
Conference Statement
Phylogenetic analyses and the use of historical data have greatly enhanced our ability to understand
biodiversity in space and time.
This international conference will focus on recent progress in
the use of biodiversity data for improved estimation of phylogeny and its various applications. This
will hold promise for the future use of Rubiaceae and the Gentianales as model systems
for understanding flowering plant evolution.
Conference Programme
The conference programme is now available. A short version can be accessed as standard html-pages from here , but the complete program, also including the submitted abstracts and list of participants, is available as a pdf-file from here .
Conference Themes
- Progress in phylogeny
- Character evolution
- Biogeography
- Biodiversity, taxonomy and species richness
Scientific Committee
- Dr. Aaron Davis, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
- Dr. Mary Endress, Institute of Systematic Botany, Zürich, Switzerland
- Dr. Sylvain Razafimandimbison, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
- Prof. Elmar Robbrecht, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- Dr. Lena Struwe, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- Dr. Charlotte Taylor, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Prof. Khoon Meng Wong, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore
- Prof. Birgitta Bremer, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
Organising Committee
- Dr. Petra De Block, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- Dr. Torsten Eriksson, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
- Mr. Kent Kainulainen, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Ms. Anbar Khodabandeh, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
- Ms. Åsa Krüger, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Dr. Ulrika Manns, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
- Dr. Helga Ochoterena, Instituto de Biología, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
- Dr. Jenny Smedmark, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
- Dr. Niklas Wikström, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
