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...

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...