Biodiversity Events

Meeting

Monday 28 May 2012, Ecuador
The First International Congress of Biotechnology and Biodiversity will be run in parallel with the IX International Banana Forum. Commercial Fair and Symposia on update topics will be common for both meetings. Social activities will also be for all participants.

Meeting

Thursday 31 May 2012, Montréal, Jardin Botanique
Grâce à des exemples concrets, à des visites virtuelles en direct et à la participation de sommités dans le domaine, le 6e colloque de la Société québécoise de phytotechnologie fera le point sur ces infrastructures vertes que sont les toits et les murs vert.

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Tuesday 05 June 2012, Montpellier, France
The aim of this conference is to bring together experts on ecological networks to synthesize existing approaches of ecological complexity in the context of global changes.

Meeting

Wednesday 06 June 2012 - Wednesday 06 June 2012, Muskoka
The Summit will feature speakers (Andrew Gonzalez, Steve Hounsell, Jeremy Kerr, Tom Lovejoy, Stephen Monet, Justina Ray, Karen Kraft Sloan) who will highlight issues and trends and examine policy options for future action. A panel discussion on the second day will be moderated by Paul Kennedy of the CBC show Ideas.

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Wednesday 13 June 2012 - Friday 22 June 2012,
On-site side events will take place inside RioCentro Convention Center and off-sites side events will be outside RioCentro Convention Center (so called off-site events) in various venues in the City of Rio de Janeiro.

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Wednesday 13 June 2012, Long Beach, California
The Student Council Symposium 2012 is a forum for students, post docs, and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge.

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Thursday 14 June 2012 - Sunday 17 June 2012, Brazil, Belo Horizonte
In 2012, the ICLEI World Congress will deal with the pressing issues facing local governments and urban areas in this unpredictable era of change. The Congress will bring our Members, partners, global strategists, academics, businesses and NGO’s together. Participants will learn from inspirational speakers and real-life city cases about cutting-edge integrated solutions to the challenges we face.

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Wednesday 20 June 2012 - Friday 22 June 2012, Brazil, Rio
At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.

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Monday 02 July 2012, Denmark, Copenhagen
The conference aims to discuss how informatics can best meet the challenges posed by biodiversity science and policy. It will focus on the practical steps needed to provide the information needs of global commitments such as the Aichi 2020 targets to halt biodiversity loss. The conference will bring together experts in the fields of biodiversity informatics, genomics, Earth observation, natural history collections, and biodiversity research and policy. Attendance at GBIC will be by invitation only.

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Friday 06 July 2012 - Tuesday 10 July 2012, Ottawa
This landmark event will bring together five of the world’s largest academic societies devoted to the study of ecology and evolutionary biology: the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). This event merges the traditional ‘Evolution’ meeting, the joint annual meeting of the ASN, SSE and SSB, with both its European and Canadian counterparts (the biennial ESEB congress and annual CSEE meeting).

Meeting

Saturday 07 July 2012, Ohio, Colombus
A meeting for Botanical Society of America, American Bryological and Lichenological Society, Canadian Botanical Association/L’Association Botanique du Canada, American Fern Society, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, International Association for Plant Taxonomy

Meeting

Monday 16 July 2012 - Wednesday 18 July 2012, Montréal, Jardin Botanique
Given that a well-developed phylogeny and classification of the Compositae has been achieved recently, and that many developments have occurred in the fields of Compositae genomics, evolutionary biology, developmental biology, and paleontology, it seemed appropriate that this TICA meeting focus on the evolution of the family in all its facets, from biogeography to phylogeography, speciation to population genetics, morphological evolution to reproduction biology.

Workshop

Wednesday 01 August 2012,
This summer school will be held as part of the Munich International Summer University (MISU) in August 2012.

Workshop

Monday 13 August 2012 - Friday 17 August 2012, Québec, Institut EDS
L’Institut EDS, en collaboration avec la Faculté des sciences de l’éducation de l’Université Laval et la Fondation Monique Fitz-Back, offrira pour la troisième fois ses deux écoles d'été à l'Université Laval en 2012. L'édition 2012 des Écoles d’été aura lieu du 13 au 17 août.

Meeting

Thursday 06 September 2012,
The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world’s largest and most important conservation event. Held every four years, the Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development.

Meeting

Wednesday 12 September 2012, Singapore
The XXXIII. International Conference on Biotechnology and Biodiversity aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Biotechnology and Biodiversity, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

Meeting

Friday 14 September 2012, India Hyderabad
Biodiversity-2012 paves a path to move towards the nature respecting the beautiful lives comprising the diversity. The conference states a call to the scientific community to take the Social responsibility saving the Mother Nature and providing a ground to explore the survival opportunities by sharing thoughts through scientific research and applying them into social life.

Meeting

Sunday 16 September 2012, Germany, Karlsruhe
The Urban Environment Symposium was initiated nearly 30 years as a forum for research urban pollution. Since then the symposium has remained such a forum, but has evolved to encompass all aspects of the urban environment. Continuing this tradition, the 11th edition of the symposium will be broad in scope and include topics ranging from environmental pollution to management and climate change. The 11th Urban Environment Symposium is organized by Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany).

Meeting

Monday 08 October 2012, India, Mumbai
he 3rd International conference of Urban Biodiversity and Design (URBIO 2012) is being organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and will be held in Mumbai, India from 8th to 12th October 2012. Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf – Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal and the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India are the patrons of this conference.