Symposia, Special Addresses and Discussion Sections at a Glance
Sunday, 12 August
- 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Plenary Lecture (Gary Nabhan): Bridging Western science and indigenous science: Ethnobiology and cross-cultural conservation collaborations in the bi-national Southwest (Hyatt, Pavilion IV-VI)
Monday, 13 August
- 8:00 am - 11:00 am Plenary Symposium: Comparative and functional genomics: evolutionary implications (Session 1 - ACC, 101-Brazos)
- 9:00 am - 11:45 am Symposium: Form and function in bryophytes (Session 9 - ACC, 111-Cimarron)
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Luncheon Lecture of the BSA Economic Botany Section (Gary Nabhan): Ethnobiological education and conservation based in indigenous communities: successes in the Sonoran Desert and Colorado Plateau (Ticketed Event) (Hyatt, Fiesta 3-4)
- 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Symposium: Linnaean taxonomy: a viable system for the new millennium? (Session 14 - ACC, 101-Brazos)
- 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Symposium: Plasticity of integrated phenotypes (Session 16 - ACC, 107-Aztec)
- 1:30 pm - 4:45 pm Symposium: Origin and biology of desert flora (Session 18 - ACC, 215-Mesilla)
Tuesday, 14 August
- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Symposium: Evolution and adaptations of pteridophytes in dry climates (Session 32 - ACC, 209-Pecos)
- 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Colloquium: Evolution, biogeography, and systematics of Begoniaceae (Session 38 - ACC, 215-Mesilla)
- 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Discussion Session: Presidents' forum: federal funding for botanical research (Session D1 - ACC, 101-Brazos)
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Discussion Session: A feeling for the organism (Session D2 - ACC, 209-Pecos)
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Discussion Session: The future of botany at the undergraduate level (Session D3 - ACC, 201-La Cienega)
- 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Address of the ASPT President-Elect (Thomas F. Daniel): Botanical heroes (at the ASPT / IOPB Banquet; Ticketed Event) (New Mexico Museum of Natural History)
Wednesday, 15 August
- 8:20 am - 12:00 pm Symposium: Biogeography and phylogeny of Caribbean plants (Session 45 - ACC, 202-Ballroom C)
- 8:25 am - 4:00 pm Symposium: Why leaves turn red: the function of anthocyanins in vegetative organs. (Session 46 & 52 - ACC, 66-Picuris)
- 9:00 am - 3:45 pm Symposium: Lichen biodeterioration: progress and problems. (Session 48 & 51 - ACC, 68/70-Sandia/Santa Ana)
- 1:15 pm - 6:00 pm Symposium: Structural botany in systematics: a symposium in memory of William C. Dickison (Session 57 - ACC, 202-Ballroom C)
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Discussion Session: Why botany? (Session D4 - ACC, 60/62-Nambe/Navajo)
- 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Discussion Session: Scientific publishing in an electronic age (Session D5 - ACC, 52-Apache)
- 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Address of the BSA President-Elect (Judy Jernstedt): With apologies to Euell Gibbons: stalking the wild Welwitschia (at the BSA Banquet; Ticketed Event) (Hyatt, Sendero Ballroom)