Young ISDR

International Diatom Symposium June 25th to 30th 2018 Berlin Venue: Seminaris Hotel As Symposium time is coming closer, news about it are here!  Schedule is open for viewing at this link . Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday only one session, Friday has parallel sessions . If you have submitted an abstract, look here to see whether it is correctly assigned to either talk or poster. If incorrect, please contact the Berlin team immediately! Timetable for young diatomists: Tuesday: 18.30h informal get-together of the Young diatomists, where we will present the work of the Young ISDR core team (short, we promise) and network between young diatomists. News and mixer (with free drinks and nibbles). Afterwards we will go to a Biergarten (your own charge, information on location coming soon!). Join in if you like! Don't worry, if you have already enrolled for the alternative walking tour, it is not mandatory to come and have fun with  us (you can have fun and enjoy the...

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...