Brassicaceae – An Introduction to family-wide Biodiversity (Workshop)
open to up to 15 participants
Dates
Friday 19th October, 10 a.m. to Saturday, 20th October 12 a.m. 2012
Get-together and a barbeque on Friday night
Place
Botanic Garden, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University
Im Neuenheimer Feld 340, 69120 Germany
Theme
We offer a 1.5 day workshop to become familiar with the enormous morphological diversity of Brassicaceae. The workshop aims to introduce principal problems of taxonomy and recognizing the correct names; since names are the key to any biology. In addition various other aspects of Brassicaceae biology are also discussed (see below). We also introduce you to the first release of the knowledge database system BrassiBase.
Content
Introduction to theory
- principles and basic rules of botanical nomenclature
- systematics, biogeography and phylogeny (+ morphological variability) of Cruciferae
- seed storage
Practical training
- introduction to BrassiBase
- working with specimens (extracting morphological information from vouchers)
- species identification with use of dichotomous and interactive polytomous keys
- preparation of simple dichotomous keys for a set of several species
Registration
claudia.hauber@cos.uni-heidelberg.de until September 15th 2012.
A detailed schedule of the workshop will be provided at the end of September.
Please organise your own accomodation as early as possible, e.g. Hotel Café Frisch (500 m).
