August 1-7
- Final symposia and associated workshop on the phylogeny of the green plants,
at the XVI International Botanical Congress, Missouri Botanical Garden.
Eight GPPRCG symposia will be presented(with organizers listed):
(Deadline 1 Feb. 1999)
- Mon. afternoon (8/2) - Moss phylogeny (Goffinet and Hedderson)
Tues. afternoon (8/3) - Basal angiosperms: molecular and developmental (Qiu and Zimmer)
Tues. afternoon (8/3) - Liverwort & Hornwort phylogeny (Crandall-Stotler and Hasegawa)
Tues. evening (8/3) - Basal angiosperms: structural and paleobotanical (Endress and Friis)
Tues. evening (8/3) - Fern phylogeny (Pryer and DuBuisson)
Wed. afternoon (8/4) - Angiosperm phylogeny (within major clades) (Soltis, Soltis, and Chase)
Wed. afternoon (8/4) - Lycophyte phylogeny (Taylor & Wikstrom)
Wed. evening (8/4) - Green Plant Phylogeny (overall) (Buchheim and Kenrick)
In addition, the GPPRCG has facilitated a Keynote Symposium that will place the green plants into the context of the rest of the tree of life (organized by Mishler and Huss):
Fri. morning (8/5) - Phylogeny of Life (where Mishler will give the overview talk on green plants, drawing from the 8 symposia above.)
March 9 - 11
- Bryophyte working group meeting and associated public symposium [English translation Here] in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, March 9 - 11th, 1999