EUNOPS 2008 - The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle in Merano, Italy

May 24 - 25

P R O G R A M M E

DAY 1: Saturday, 24 May

8.30 Registration

9.00 - Welcome address (Karin Kompatscher, Curator & Otto Huber, Scientific Advisor, The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle)

09:20 - Henrik Balslev - The EU-PALMS project

09:40 - Soraya Villalba - The EUNOPS website and some EDIT gadgets for e-taxonomy: an update

10:00 - Coffee break and poster session

10:30 - Visit to the Garden

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (In the Garden)



SESSION 1: STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

(Chairman: Anders Barfod, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus)

14:00 - James Tregear - Investigating sex determination in the palm family

14:20 - Felipe Castaño - Floral structure and systematics in the palm (Arecaceae) complex: Chelyocarpus-Cryosophila-Itaya

14:40 - Jean-Christophe Pintaud - Geometric morphometry of leaf apices as a taxonomic and phenotyping tool in Phoenix

15:00 - Melinda Trudgen - Towards a revision of Heterospathe in New Guinea

15:20 - Marc Jeanson - Systematics of the Tribe Caryoteae

15:40 - Julissa Roncal - Genetic and habitat differentiation of Geonoma macrostachys. (Arecaceae) Western Amazonian varieties

16:00 - Coffee break and poster session

17:30 - 18:00  Visit to the Palm exposition in the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle

18:00 - 18:45  Visit to downtown Merano

19:00 - 22:00  Conference Dinner (Restaurant "Thurnstein")


DAY 2: Sunday, 25 May

SESSION 2: ECOLOGY AND USES

(Chairman: jean-Christophe Pintaud, IRD, France) 

09:30 – Jens-Christian Svenning -  Palm diversity patterns in the New World - assessing the roles of climate, ecology, and evolution using ecoinformatics

09:50 – Anne Overgaard - Geographic distibution and diversity pattern of the African palm flora

10:00 - Dennis Pedersen - Distance decay in Amazonian floodplain palm communities

10:10 - Sandie Lykke Hansen - Is local palm use by rural Amazonian communities constrained by the diversity and abundance of palms locally and regionally?

10:30 - Coffee break

11:00 - James Tregear - Information on the Palm 2010 Meeting (Montpellier)

11:10 - Final discussion and propects for the next meeting of the European Network of Palm Scientists

11:30 - End of EUNOPS 2008

Lunch in the restaurants of The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle

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