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Botany
2008 Registration Rates
Online
Registration
Conference Accommodations
Conference Registration is in the Student
Union Building
CBA/ABC Award Information
PDF in English
and French
Check out the line-up
of amazing invited speakers
including Nobel Prize recipient Carl
Wieman
Registration is now closed - Limited
spaces remain
Check at registration when you arrive
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Botany 2008 opened with over 750 enthusiastic botanists attending Paul Stamets' Plenary Lecture (and reception); "Solutions from Nature: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World". What a great start to the scientific program in Vancouver! Pictured are local representative and CBA/ABC Vice President Santokh Singh, Paul Staments, BSA Program Director Karen Renzaglia and BSA President Pam Soltis.
Things to remember - #1, your passport!
Directions from the airport - click here.
If you are staying in the Marine Drive Residence, check in at the front desck of the Marine Drive Residence located at 2205 Lower Mall.
Guest staying in the Vancouver School of Theology, check in at the front desk at the Vancouver School of Theology located at 6000 Iona Drive.
Guests staying in the Gage Towers of the West Coast Suites, check in at front desk at the Gage Towers located at 5959 Student Union Blvd.
Carl Wieman - Regional Botany Special Lecture
Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the tools of science to teach science
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IK Barber Room 182
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Additional Programs Botany 2008
Monday - July 28 Noon - 1:30 California
Botanists Lunch
Bring your own lunch (from the food court)
and join in the discussion - SUB 212A
Join in Workshop 15 Sunday July 27 1:00
- 3:00 pm - Rapid
Floras for the 21st Century: Virtually Connecting Specimens,
Herbaria,
and Botanists for Maximum Datasharing and Synthesis in
Record Time
Spaces limited - Sign up at registration
Additional Information for Workshop 1 Sunday
27 8:00 am - 5:00 pm - Applying Modern Genomic Tools to
the Management and Characterization of Plant Genetic Resources
Info for ALL Poster Presentations
Posters should be no larger than 4' x 4'
Posters can be hung in the exhibit hall
beginning Saturday, July 26th 2:00pm
All Society and Section Poster Sessions will be held
Monday, July 28th & Tuesday, July 29th 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
in the Exhibit Hall of the Student Union Building (SUB).
Even numbered Poster authors should be available to present their posters on
Monday
Odd numbered posters at Tuesday’s session
Don't Know your poster number....Check Here
More questions? Ask
me....
Audio Visual Info for Paper Talks
Presentation are to be 15 minutes in length
including question. Presentations can be prepared on CD, or USB stick and
all computers will
be equipped with:
Windows XP Pro service pack 2, Office 2003, Powerpoint
2007 Viewer, Adobe Acrobat, Quicktime and VL media player.
Be sure to check in at the Presentation Ready Room (SUB 224) to
preview your presentation to be sure it view the way you want it
to.
Presentation Ready Room Hours:
Sunday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday - Tuesday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
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