SASSB 2022 Webinar Series

The Southern African Society for Systematic Biology is hosting a webinar series to enable sharing of systematic research, both local and international, and to offer an online space for discussion about your systematic biology research, thoughts, & questions. The webinar will be a two-hour session on the First Thursday of the month at 16h00 SA Standard Time/Central Africa Time (UTC+02:00).

WorkshopWe want to hear about your systematics research! The Southern African Society for Systematic Biology is hosting a webinar series to enable sharing of systematic research, both local and international, and to offer an online space for discussion about your systematic biology research, thoughts, & questions. The webinar will be a two-hour session on the First Thursday of the month at 16h00 SA Standard Time/Central Africa Time (UTC+02:00). The first half will be either recorded or live talks by an invited plenary speaker who will share their work on a specific theme, followed by a shorter talk within the same theme. After the talks and a Q&A session, the online space will be held open for 30 minutes for informal discussions and chats about the research presented, or other topics of interest to the systematics community. For a line-up of speakers, you can also visit the SASSB website. Links will be distributed following registration, so be sure to sign up! Please contact Prof Fanus Venter if you have any questions. SASSB Youtube channel: Click here Previous events, themes and speakers 3 June 2021: Theme: Calibrating phylogenetic trees. invited speaker: Dr. Seraina Klopfstein. ( Click here to view presentation ) 1 July 2021: (Joint session with FABI international series). Theme: Fungal evolution. Invited speaker: Dr. David Hibbett. ( Click here to view presentation ) 5 August 2021: Theme: Systematics In Angiosperm Taxonomy and Evolution. Invited speaker: Dr. Sandra Knapp. ( Click here to view presentation ) 2 September 2021: Theme: Biogeography. Invited speaker: Dr. Isabel Sanmartin. ( Click here to view presentation ) 3 September 2021: Workshop on Bayesian methods in biogeography, presented by Dr. Isabel Sanmartin. 14 October 2021: Theme: Digital taxonomic data. Invited speaker: Donat Agosti, Plazi, Bern, Switzerland. 15 October 2021: Workshop on Data liberation from taxonomic literature using Plazi, presented by Marcus Guidoti, Carolina Socorowicz, and Donat Agosti 17 November 2021: (Join session with SASSB AGM). Theme Bayesian spatiotemporal reconstruction of SARS-CoV-2 spread. Invited speaker: Dr. Philippe Lemey, Rega Institute at KU Leuven, Belgium. Scheduled events, themes and speakers 7 April 2022: Theme: Palaeosystematics Invited speaker: Prof. Jonah Choiniere 5 May 2022: Theme: Bacterial genomic diversity Invited speaker: Dr. Luis M. Rodriguez-R 2 June 2022: Theme: Plant Systematics and Evolution Invited speaker: Prof. Vinita Gowda 3 November 2022: Theme: The SeqCode, Invited speaker: Dr. Marike Palmer (click here to view presentation) Upcoming seminar: 3 November 2022 - Time: 16:00 (GMT+2) Plenary speaker: Marike Palmer, School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA Title: SeqCode: Empowering prokaryotic taxonomists to use resources that are appropriate for naming the organisms they study