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XIII EUNOPS MEETING
May 11-12th, 2013
Aarhus, Denmark
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The European Network of Palm Scientists) was established in 2001 to facilitate the exchange of information and collaboration between European palm specialists. A EUNOPS meeting has been held annually ever since, providing an informal opportunity for palm biologists to meet and to discuss current research through two days of talks and round table discussions. Previous meetings (and pages associated with the meetings) are listed here.
The thirteenth meeting of EUNOPS will be held at the open-air museum in Aarhus called “Den Gamle By” (translation: “The Old Town”), with the meeting on the 11-12th May 2013, with a conference dinner on the 11th and an excursion on the 13th.
The preliminary program consists of a tour in the Greenhouses, a tour in “Den Gamle By” and four sessions of talks/presentations. Each session will be 2 x 1 hour.
The programme will include presentations, short communications and round table discussions, as well as plenty of time for informal interactions. Posters can also be presented. The venue is equipped with facilities for Powerpoint presentations.
A dinner will take place on the evening of Saturday 11th May. An optional excursion to the "mountains" of Mols will be organized after the Meeting, on Monday 13th May.
| SATURDAY 11 MAY | |||
| 08:30 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 | Welcoming address | Prof. Hans Brix, Head of Bioscience Campus, Aarhus University |
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| Assoc. Prof. Anders S. Barfod, Head of the EUNOPS XIII organizing committee |
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| 09:30 | Session 1. Palm biogeography & macroecology |
1. Daniel Kissling | Global hotspots of diversity and threat for palms under recent and future land cover change |
| Chair: Jens-Christian Svenning | 2. Wolf Eiserhardt | The palms of Madagascar: unraveling the eco-evolutionary assembly of an exceptional island flora |
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| 3. Ingrid Olivares | Long-term changes in palm community composition in the western Amazon basin |
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| 10:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | Session 2. Palm conservation |
4. Pedro A. Sosa | Genetic differentiation of Phoenix canariensis natural populations from the Canary Islands |
| Chair: Scott Zona | 5. Anne B. Overgaard | Vulnerability of African palms to 21st century climate change and human impact. |
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| 6. Lauren Gardiner | Palm Conservation in the Itremo Protected Area of Madagascar |
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| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | Guided tour in Old Town – by museum guides | ||
| 14:45 | Session 3. Palm systematics and ethnobotany | 7. Angela Cano | A revision of Trithrinax (Coryphoideae: Cryosophileae) |
| Chair: John Dransfield | 8. William J. Baker | Palms of New Guinea | |
| 9. Manuel Macia | Understanding the palm use knowledge through socioeconomic factors in Northwestern South America |
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| 15:45 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:15 | Session 4. Ethnobotany continued & economic botany | 10. Rodrigo Camara Leret | Quantitative ethnobotany of palms in the Amazon, Andes and Chocó |
| Chair: Henrik Balslev | 11. Renato Valencia | How to improve the sustainable use of palm products in NW South American? |
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| 12. Monica Gruezmacher | Uncovering guiding principles for sustainable palm tree use in the north western Amazon region |
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| 17:15 | Meeting conclusion | ||
| 19:30 | Conference dinner at Musikhuset Aarhus - Johan R |
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| SUNDAY 12 MAY |
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| 09:00 | Guided tour in the Greenhouses of the Botanic Garden – by Head of the AAU herbarium and collection manager Finn Borchsenius and Anders Barfod |
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| 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Session 5. Palm phylogenetics |
13. Uffe Brandt Andersen | Next generation palm phylogenetics: bridging traditional gene sequencing and whole genome sequencing |
| Chair: Finn Borchsenius | 14. Ëlodie Alapetite | Phylogenetic patterns in the Ptychospermatinae androecium: insight from a novel molecular phylogeny |
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| 15. Maria José Sanín Perez | Phylogeography of the Andean Wax Palms (Ceroxylon) based on nuclear and chloroplast genes |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Session 6. Palm structure and development | 16. Mikhail Romanov | Pericarp structure and biogeography of Ceroxyloideae (Arecaceae) |
| Chair: Fred Stauffer | 17. Marco Ballardini | Structural stability assessment of palms: the case of date palm Phoenix dactylifera L. |
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| 18. James Tregear | Analysis of small RNAs and their potential role in the regulation of inflorescence development in palms |
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| 15:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:30 | Session 7. Constraints to ecosystem services of palms |
19. Nikos Thymakis | Phoenix theophrasti and management of RPW |
| Chair: Anders Barfod | 20. Grisha Brokamp | Causes of resource limitation in the trade with tagua (Phytelephas aequatorialis) |
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| 21. Brigitte Frérot | Chemical ecology of Paysandisia archon an alien pest on palm trees in south Europe |
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| 16:30 | Meetings announcement | Jean-Cristophe Pintaud: EU Palm Workshop in Tingo Maria, Peru, 2013 |
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| Isabel Mateu-Andrés: EUNOPS XIV in Valencia, Spain, 2014 |
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| Henrik Balslev: PALMS 2015, in Aarhus |
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| 17:00 | EUNOPS business | Representatives of the EUNOPS steering committee |
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| 17:30 | Closing of meeting | Assoc. Prof. Anders S. Barfod, Head of the EUNOPS XIII organizing committee |
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| MONDAY 13 MAY |
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| 09:00 | Departure from Cabinn or Aarhus University Build. 1540 |
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| 10:00 | Arrival at National Park Mols Bjerge |
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| 11:30 | Lunch | ||
| 12:30 | Guided tour in the National Park | ||
| 14:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:00 | Departure Mols Bjerge | ||
| 16:00 | Arrival Aarhus | ||
Citizens from European Union countries won’t need a VISA to enter Denmark, participants from non-EU countries need to apply for a VISA. Please contact your local embassy or consulate for additional information about visas and contact us if you will need a letter of invitation from the conference organisers. Do this as quickly as possible, as handling time at the embassies or consulates may be substantial.
ACCOMMODATION
A limited number of rooms have been booked at the Cabinn hotel in the center of Aarhus (cabinn.com). The prizes are among the lovest in Aarhus at 550 DKK per night for an economy room.
Please indicate in the registration from (link below) whether or not you require accomodation at the Cabinn hotel.
Deadline if a visa letter is required: Before end of February
Deadline if accomodation is required: March 27
As usual for EUNOPS meeting, no registration fees are planned, other than for the conference dinner on Sat 11th. The price for the dinner will be around 40 EURO excluding drinks.
If you wish to participate in the optional excursion on Mon 13th, you will be asked to pay a trip fee of 20 EURO including transport, lunch and a guided tour.
The closest airport is Aarhus-Tirstrup (AAR.dk, 46 km from Aarhus). Alternative airports are: Billund (BLL.dk, 95 km from Aarhus), Copenhagen-Kastrup (CPH.dk, 300 km from Aarhus) or Aalborg (AAL.dk, 132 km from Aarhus).
Aarhus has railway systems connecting the larger cities (DSB.dk)
VISITING AARHUS
For information about Aarhus as a tourist location, check out this site: (visitaarhus.com)
An optional excursion to the "mountains" of Mols will be organized after the Meeting, on Monday 13th May. There will be a trip fee of 20 EURO including transport, lunch and a guided tour of the national park (www.danmarksnationalparker.dk/Mols)
CONTACTS:
For any further details or queries concerning the meeting, please contact:
Dennis Pedersen
dennis.pedersen (at) biology.au.dk
or
Anders Barfod
anders.barfod (at) biology.au.dk
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