Young ISDR

There was once a happy Encyonema that lived in the clearest of river waters. It was a happy diatom, who spent its days swimming in the shade….   but it couldn’t help but think about its place in the universe. It decided to set off on a quest to search for more of its own kind.   After letting the river meander along for a bit, it eventually found a few friendly-looking fellows. “Hello there! Are you my family?”   asked the little Encyonema. “No, I don’t think so. I don’t even have a raphe! What do you think, Nitzschia?” – said Tabellaria.             “Definitely not. We’re not even in the same order”, said Nitschia. Disheartened, it went looking for others and soon found someone.    “Hey! You’re raphid! Are you my family?” it asked. “Hm, that’s true, but you’ve only seen one of my faces….   I don’t think we are similar at all. Look...

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)

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...