Geometric morphometric Symposium, IBC. Melbourne

Habrá un Simposio de Morfometria Geometrica en el pxóximo XVIII International Botanical Congress a celebrarse entre el 23-30 de Julio, 2011 en Melbourne, Australia.
General Symposium: Sym139: "Geometric Morphometric In Plant Systematics"
Theme: Systematic s, Evolution, Biogeography & Biodiversity Info
Symposium Organiser: Dr Nicodemo Giuseppe Passalacqua - University of Calabria

"The symposium will consider different approaches, and achievements in geometric morphometric applied to different research fields of systematic botany."

Programa:
1. N.G. Passalacqua, Introduction to the Symposium: Limits and potentiality of geometric morphometrics in plant systematics.
2. J.F. Rohlf, keynote speaker: The use of geometric morphometrics in evolutionary studies .
3. C. Lexer: Why plant evolutionary genomics needs digital image based morphometrics.
4. E. de Luna: Integrating morphometric and phylogenetic analyses: From phenetic systematics to phylogenetic morphometrics .
5. T. van der Niet: Reconstructing ancestral floral shape using geometric morphometrics: a test of the pollinator shift hypothesis.
6. D. Kirkup: Herbarium based geometric morphometrics, stress and developmental instability.