• Programme

May 27 - 28

P R O G R A M M E

DAY 1: Saturday, 27 May

8:30 Registration
9:30 Welcome address (Rodolphe Spichiger, Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva), introduction and presentation of attendees (Fred Stauffer, Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva).
9:45 Welcome lecture (John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) “The new Genera Palmarum”.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Visit to the Herbarium and the Library (Fernand Jacquemoud, Patrick Perret)
11:40 Lunch

Session 1: Structural Biology, Systematics and Floristics (Chairwoman: Sophie Nadot, University Paris-Sud, France)

14:00 Julie Sannier - Evolution of microsporogenesis in palms
14:20 Jean-Christophe Pintaud - Hexopetion Burret, a misunderstood genus of Bactridinae
14:40 Fred Stauffer – An update to the Venezuelan palm flora
15:00 Henrik Balslev - Palms and palm communities around Iquitos, Peru
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Anders Barfod - An overview of Thai palms
16:50 Round table discussion Palm structure and phylogenies (Convenors: Anders Barfod, University of Aarhus, Denmark; Fred Stauffer, Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva).
17:10 Visit to the Botanical Garden
20:00 Conference Dinner (Restaurant “Aux Halles de L´Ile”)

DAY 2: Sunday, 28 May

Session 2: Phylogenetics (Chairman: William Baker, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK)

9:30 Conny Asmussen - TBA
9:50 William Baker - Sympatric speciation on oceanic islands – a case study from the palms of Lord Howe Island
10:10 Argelia Cuenca - Phylogeny of Chamaedoreeae: evidence from plastid and nuclear sequences
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Christine Bacon – Species boundaries in Chamaedorea alternans Wendl. (Arecaceae)
11:20 Philipp Trénel - Phylogeny of palm subfamily Ceroxyloideae (Arecaceae)
11:40 Round table discussion “Palm molecular phylogenies” (convenor: Dr. Conny B. Asmussen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Session 3: Ecology, Reproductive Biology and Uses (Chairwoman: Dr. Marie Charlotte Anstett, University of Montpellier, France)

13:50 Jean-Reto Walther - Trachycarpus in Europe – past, present and future
14:10 Marie-Charlotte Anstett – Pollination in palms
14:30 Finn Borchsenius – Diversity and uses of Andean palms
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Final discussion and prospects for the next meeting of the European Network of Palm Scientists
15:50 End of EUNOPS 2006