Young ISDR

Monday 25th of June 2018 16.00 – 18.00 REGISTRATION, meet our young diatomists core team at the registration desk. 18.00 – 20.00 ICE BREAKER, networking meeting. Tuesday 26th of June 18.15: Young ISDR: Information Session in Room Oxford (Seminaris) 18.45: Young ISDR: travel together to an informal get-together at the Biergarten Birgit & Bier Thursday 28th of June 12.15 – 13.00: Speed Talks (Students) + ECR election at the Seminaris Friday 29th of June 19.00 – 23.00: Summer Party (Botanical Garden) and award ceremony Saturday 30th of June 09.00 – 12.00: Morning sessions workshops (How to publish/DNA taxonomy) 14.00 – 17.00: Afternoon sessions workshops (Ecology and Bioindication/Paleostatistics)

Silly doodle Workshops As you know, if you follow this blog, we have been preparing 4 workshops for the International Diatom Symposium in Berlin. On Saturday 30th of June we will have the following workshop programmes available for you: Young Diatomists Workshops Berlin IDS 2018 30 th June (Saturday, 9-17h) DNA and taxonomy (9-12 h): Edward Theriot & David Mann ( 27 students inscriptions on May 16th ) Lectures (2 hours) 1.       Taxon selection, alignment, phylogenetic analysis and hypothesis testing – theoretical, conceptual part ( E. Theriot ) ·          Case studies 2.       Validation and vouchering (metadata) of sequences, and the limitations of GenBank ( D. Mann ) ·          Case studies Open discussion and questions (1 hour) Based on student´s expectations, we would like to have an open discussion about opp...