SCB Symposium


39th Annual Southern California Botanists Symposium:
Origin and Relationships of the California Flora: Was Raven Ravin'?

Sunday, October 20th, 2013 9:00am- 5:00pm at Pomona College, Seaver Auditorium and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA

    Invited Presentations:
  • Peter Raven Missouri Botanic Garden - Origin and Relationships of the California flora
  • Kathleen Kay, UC Santa Cruz - Origin and Diversification of the California Flora
  • Connie Millar, US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Division - Geologic, Climatic and Vegetation History of California
  • Nancy Morin, Flora of North America - Natural History of Nemacladus
  • Bart O'Brien Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden - California Floristic Province Delimitation
  • Fred Roberts - Calochortus of Southern California
  • Kristina Schierenbeck, Chico State- Phylogeography of California
  • Genevieve Walden, UC Berkeley- Phacelia

Banquet

We will have a banquet immediately following the SCB symposium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden The banquet will follow a mixer and poster session that all symposium attendees are welcome to attend. Keynote Presentation: by Lucinda A. McDade, Ph.D

Submissions for Poster Session

This year the SCB will again have a poster session before the banquet in an effort to encourage networking and to have a venue for members and students to present their work. If you are interested in submitting an abstract for this years poster sesssion please send an e-mail to posters at socalbot dot org with your abstract. Please keep your abstract to a maximum of 300 words. Posters should be no more than 4'x4'. Poster abstracts should be submitted electronically before October 10, 2013.


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