The Scottish Phylogeny Discussion Group

Introduction

The Scottish Phylogeny Discussion Group (SPDG) meets to discuss phylogeny reconstruction and associated areas of research, including comparative genomics, phylogenomics, population genetics and taxonomy.

Half-day meetings are hosted by different institutions around Scotland. Each meeting has a talk by an invited speaker from around the world, plus several talks by local researchers who are based in Scotland or willing to travel there.

Everyone who attends meetings will be regarded as a member of the SPDG. Members are encouraged (but not forced) to attend all meetings. Local speakers will be drawn from the list of members, and invited to give a talk, approximately one month in advance of the meeting. Expenses are not available for local speakers, but registration is always free.

Next Meeting

The next meeting is at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 13 June 2012, 1 PM to 5:30 PM.

There will be a talk by Professor Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London) on "Evolutionarily significant units of diversity above the species level", followed by talks from a range of researchers based in Scotland.

Registration is free. To register, please email Liz Leith e.leith@rbge.ac.uk with subject 'Register SPDG June 2012'. If you have any dietary requirements, please state them in the text of your email. If you wish to come for dinner after the meeting (charged at cost; venue to be decided), please also indicate this in your email.

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Join the SPDG

If you cannot attend the meeting but wish to enrol as a member of the Scottish Phylogeny Discussion Group, email db60@st-andrews.ac.uk with subject "Join SPDG". In the text of your email, please include:

your title (Miss/Mrs/Ms/Mr/Dr/Prof)
your place of work or study, if any
a summary (max. 10 words) of your research interests.

You will receive occasional relevant email, e.g. announcements of meetings.

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Funding

The Scottish Phylogeny Discussion Group is funded by a grant from the Scottish Bioinformatics Forum and by the Centre for Evolution, Genes and Genomics at the University of St Andrews.

Contact

The overall organizer of the Scottish Phylogeny Discussion Group is Dr Daniel Barker.