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Botany in the Curriculum:
Integrating Research and Teaching

August 2-4: Forum on Botanical Education & Outreach
August 4-7: Annual Scientific Conference

Pyle Conference Center
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Symposia and Symposium Organizers

Plenary Symposium

"Evolution: Highlighting plants" (half-day) Organizer: Patricia Gensel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Tele: (919) 962-6937, E-mail: <pgensel@bio.unc.edu>.  

Societal and Sectional Symposia

BSA Ecological and Genetics Sections
"Evolution of mating systems in the genus Mimulus" (full-day) Organizers: Jeffrey D. Karron, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Tele: (414) 229-6003, E-mail: <karron@uwm.edu>, and Michele R. Dudash, University of Maryland, College Park, Tele: (301) 405-1642, E-mail: <md59@umail.umd.edu>.

BSA Tropical Biology and Systematics Sections, and ASPT
"Tropical intercontinental disjunctions: Gondwana break-up, immigration from the boreotropics, and transoceanic dispersal" (full-day) Organizers: Susanne S. Renner, University of Missoui-St. Louis, E-mail: <renner@umsl.edu>, and Thomas J. Givnish, University of Wisconsin, Madison, E-mail: <givnish@facstaff.wisc.edu>.

AFS, BSA Pteridological and Systematics Section, and ASPT
"‘Werthwhile’ passions: Exploring the plants and research themes that fascinated Dr. Charles R. Werth" (half-day) Organizer: Christopher Haufler, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Tele: (785) 864-3255, E-mail: <vulgare@ku.edu>.

BSA Developmental and Structural, Mycological, and Ecological Sections
"Biocomplexity in mycorrhizae" (half-day) Organizers: Larry Peterson, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Tele: (519) 824-4120, E-mail: <lpeterso@uoguelph.ca>, Jack Fisher, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, FL, Tele: (305) 665-2844, E-mail: <jfisher@fairchildgarden.org>, and Darlene Southworth, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Tele: (541) 552-6865, E-mail: <southworth@sou.edu>.

BSA Developmental and Structural Section
"Conifer reproductive biology: A tribute to John N. Owens" (half-day) Organizers: Danilo D. Fernando, State University of New York, Syracuse,Tele: (315) 470-6746, E-mail: <fernando@esf.edu>, and David Gifford, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Tele: (780) 492-5463, E-mail: <david.gifford@ualberta.ca>.

CBA, BSA Developmental and Structural Section, and Systematics Sections
"Generating diversity: The link between developmental morphology and phylogeny" (half-day) Organizers: Denis Barabe, Montreal Botanical Garden, Quebec, Canada, Tele: (514) 872-1435, E-mail: <barabed@ere.umontreal.ca>, Judith Canne-Hilliker, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Tele: (519) 824-4120, Ext. 276, E-mail: <jcannehi@uoguelph.ca>, and Nancy G. Dengler, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Tele: (416) 978-3536, E-mail: <dengler@botany.utoronto.ca>.

Phycological Society of America (PSA)
"Green algal conquests of the land: Many conquests, one victory?" (half-day) Organizers: Russell L. Chapman, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Tele: (225) 578-3457, E-mail: <chapman@lsu.edu>, Charles F. Delwiche, University of Maryland, College Park, E-mail: <delwiche@umail.umd.edu>, and Richard M. McCourt, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, Tele: (215) 299-1157, E-mail: <mccourt@acnatsci.org>.

"Mycosporines: Detection methodologies and assessment" (half-day) Organizer: Paul Zimba, USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS, Tele: (504) 686-3588, E-mail: <pzimba@ars.usda.gov>.

BSA Physiological and Teaching Sections
"Restoration of major plant ecosystems in the USA: Physiological research and teaching opportunities" (half-day) Organizers: Anitra Thorhaug, Yale School of Forestry and Environment, New Haven, CT, E-mail: <thorhaug@gateway.net>, and Henri Maurice, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Tele: (812) 461-5231, E-mail: <HMaurice@usi.edu>.

BSA Economic Botany Section
"Ethnobotany of the Solanaceae" (half-day) Organizer: David M. Spooner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Tele: (608) 262-0159 E-mail: <dspooner@facstaff.wisc.edu>.

ASPT Colloquia

"Systematics and Evolution of the Caryophyllaceae" Organizers: Richard K. Rabeler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tele: (734) 647-2811, E-mail: <rabeler@umich.edu>, and Molly Nepokroeff, University of South Dakota, Tele: (605) 677-6178, E-mail: <mnepokro@usd.edu>.

"Rosaceae phylogeny: Current knowledge, problems, and prospects" Organizers: Christopher S. Campbell, University of Maine, Orono, Tele: (207) 581-2976, E-mail: <christopher_campbell@umit.maine.edu>, and Timothy A. Dickinson, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, Tele: (416) 586-8032, E-mail: <timd@rom.on.ca>.

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