Upcoming Events and Announcements:

• Deep Gene is supporting travel to four scientific meetings in 2003, all with sessions designed to increase interactions between systematics/phylogenetics and molecular biology/genomics:
  
  
  • Plant Gametophytes: Evolution, Development and Function - June 8 to June 13, 2003
    at the "Centro Monte Verita", Ascona, Switzerland (call for applications)
    
    
  • Plant Biology 2003 - July 25 - 30, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii (call for applications)
    
    
  • Botany 2003 -- July 27 - 31, 2003. Mobile, Alabama (call for applications)
    
    
  • Molecular Systematics of Bryophytes: Progress, Problems, and Perspectives - September 6 and 7, 2003, the Missouri Botanical Garden.
    Held in conjunction with:
  • Moss2003 - September 8 and 9, Washington University, St. Louis (call for applications mid-page)

• Ongoing - Deep Gene Student Research Training Support (Rolling Application Process).
  Supports rotations between labs, summer internships, or participation in appropriate training courses. :: More information ::

• January 2003 - Tree of Life Grant
  A new grant will fund research to help reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of green plants using comparative genomics. This research is part of a nation-wide collaborative effort involving 6 universities. Through its new "Assembling the Tree of Life" program, the National Science Foundation is hoping to stimulate a detailed reconstruction of the phylogeny of all living things, to better understand the history of life and advance human needs including discovery of new drugs, tracking pathogens, and conservation of biodiversity. For more details see brochure online (warning, a 2.5M PDF file).

• January 13th, 2003 - Deep Gene sponsors a panel discussion at Plant & Animal Genome XI (PAG-XI)
  Held on Monday January 13th, 2003, to increase productive interactions between plant genomic and phylogenetic biologists.

• August 2002 - 16 Students receive a Deep Gene Student Travel Award to Botany 2002.
  Sixteen students received travel cost assistance awards for Botany 2002. For a list of the recipients, please click here. For information about the Deep Gene Student travel award, please click here.

• August 8th, 2002 - A Deep Gene Workshop was held Thursday, August 8th, 2002 at Botany 2002, Madison, WI

• June 2002 - Tree of Life: Several Deep Gene collaborators gave talks at an important public symposium on the whole Tree of Life, May 30 - June 1, 2002 at the American Museum of Natural History.

• Febuary 10th, 2002 - Deep Gene, the Jepson Herbarium and the California Science Teachers Association cosponsored the first in a series of workshops for science teachers on Febuary 10th, 2002 entitled "Getting to the Roots of Plant Evolution"