Talks from the Sauquet lab at the Botany 2016 conference this week in Savannah will feature the latest results from the eFLOWER initiative and Elisabeth Reyes' PhD, the latest results from Stefan Little's work on the MAGNIPHY project, and Charles Foster's new timescale of angiosperm diversification based on complete plastid genomes:
Last week, three of us were at the University of California, Berkeley for a workshop on floral transcriptomics run by Ana Almeida and Stefan Little. The workshop, funded by a France-Berkeley Fund grant, brought together members and complementary expertise from the Specht and the Sauquet Labs to learn more about transcriptome analysis. For this, we generated new floral organ-specific transcriptomes for a sample of species from Magnoliidae and Zingiberales, which we analyzed during the workshop. In addition, the first day was focused on presenting the eFLOWER project to the participants through hands-on data scoring of Magnoliidae and Zingiberales taxa in the PROTEUS database.
The workshop was a great success and we all learned a lot throughout the week. You may follow some of our activities on Twitter at #fbfmagzin. Pictured above, from left to right, top to bottom: Stefan Little, Chodon Sass, Ana Almeida, Joyce Chery, Renske Onstein, Stephen Yee, Hervé Sauquet, Lisa Schultheis, Jenna Baughman, Chelsea Specht. Two weeks ago, I was invited to a very stimulating, small meeting at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. Organized by Erik Smets and colleagues from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the meeting entitled Beyond the Tree of Life: the future of plant systematics brought together about 40 botanists from very different backgrounds, ages, and countries to brainstorm about the future of plant systematics. Many exciting ideas and prospects emerged and, most importantly, this made me join Twitter!
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