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​EUNOPS 13
The thirteenth meeting of EUNOPS will be held at the open-air museum in Aarhus called “Den Gamle By” (translation: “The Old Town”), with the meeting on the 11-12th May 2013, with a conference dinner on the 11th and an excursion on the 13th.
   
The preliminary program consists of a tour in the Greenhouses, a tour in “Den Gamle By” and four sessions of talks/presentations. Each session will be 2 x 1 hour.
The programme will include presentations, short communications and round table discussions, as well as plenty of time for informal interactions. Posters can also be presented. The venue is equipped with facilities for Powerpoint presentations.
A dinner will take place on the evening of Saturday 11th May. An optional excursion to the "mountains" of Mols will be organized after the Meeting, on Monday 13th May.


PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME


SATURDAY 11 MAY  
08:30Registration  
    
09:00Welcoming addressProf. Hans Brix, Head
of Bioscience Campus, Aarhus University  
  Assoc. Prof. Anders S.
Barfod, Head of the EUNOPS XIII organizing committee 
    
09:30Session 1. Palm biogeography
& macroecology 1. Daniel KisslingGlobal hotspots of diversity and
threat for palms under recent and future land cover change
 Chair: Jens-Christian Svenning2. Wolf EiserhardtThe palms of Madagascar:
unraveling the eco-evolutionary assembly of an exceptional island flora
  3. Ingrid OlivaresLong-term changes in palm
community composition in the western Amazon basin
10:30Coffee break   
    
11:00Session 2. Palm
conservation  4. Pedro A. SosaGenetic differentiation of Phoenix canariensis natural
populations from the Canary Islands

 Chair: Scott Zona5. Anne B. OvergaardVulnerability of African palms
to 21st century climate change and human impact.
  6. Lauren GardinerPalm Conservation in the Itremo
Protected Area of Madagascar
12:00Lunch   
    
13:30Guided tour in Old Town – by museum guides 
    
14:45Session 3.  Palm systematics and ethnobotany 7. Angela Cano A revision of Trithrinax (Coryphoideae: Cryosophileae)
 Chair: John Dransfield8. William J. BakerPalms of New Guinea
  9. Manuel Macia Understanding the palm use
knowledge through socioeconomic factors in Northwestern South America
15:45Coffee break   
    
16:15Session 4.  Ethnobotany continued & economic botany 10. Rodrigo Camara LeretQuantitative ethnobotany of
palms in the Amazon, Andes and Chocó 
 Chair: Henrik Balslev11. Renato ValenciaHow to improve the sustainable
use of palm products in NW South American?
  12. Monica Gruezmacher Uncovering guiding principles
for sustainable palm tree use in the north western Amazon region 
17:15Meeting conclusion  
    
19:30Conference dinner at Musikhuset
Aarhus - Johan R  
    
SUNDAY
12 MAY 
09:00Guided tour in the Greenhouses of the Botanic Garden – by Head
of the AAU herbarium and collection manager Finn Borchsenius and Anders
Barfod
11:00Coffee break   
    
11:30Session 5. Palm
phylogenetics  13. Uffe Brandt AndersenNext generation palm
phylogenetics: bridging traditional gene sequencing and whole genome
sequencing 
 Chair: Finn Borchsenius14. Ëlodie AlapetitePhylogenetic patterns in the
Ptychospermatinae androecium: insight from a novel molecular phylogeny
  15. Maria José Sanín PerezPhylogeography of the Andean Wax
Palms (Ceroxylon) based on
nuclear and chloroplast genes

12:30Lunch   
    
14:00Session 6. Palm  structure and development 16. Mikhail RomanovPericarp structure and
biogeography of Ceroxyloideae (Arecaceae)
 Chair: Fred Stauffer17. Marco BallardiniStructural stability assessment
of palms: the case of date palm Phoenix dactylifera L.
  18. James TregearAnalysis of small RNAs and their
potential role in the regulation of inflorescence development in palms
15:00Coffee break   
    
15:30Session 7. Constraints to
ecosystem services of palms  19. Nikos ThymakisPhoenix
theophrasti
 and management of RPW
 Chair: Anders Barfod20. Grisha BrokampCauses of resource limitation in
the trade with tagua (Phytelephas aequatorialis)
  21. Brigitte FrérotChemical ecology of Paysandisia archon an alien pest on
palm trees in south Europe 

    
16:30Meetings announcementJean-Cristophe
Pintaud: EU Palm Workshop in Tingo Maria, Peru, 2013
  Isabel Mateu-Andrés:
EUNOPS XIV in Valencia, Spain, 2014
  Henrik Balslev: PALMS
2015, in Aarhus
    
17:00EUNOPS businessRepresentatives of the
EUNOPS steering committee
    
17:30Closing of meetingAssoc. Prof. Anders S.
Barfod, Head of the EUNOPS XIII organizing committee 
    
    
    
MONDAY
13 MAY 
    
09:00Departure from Cabinn or
Aarhus University Build. 1540 
    
10:00Arrival at National Park Mols
Bjerge  
    
11:30Lunch   
    
12:30Guided tour in the National Park  
    
14:30Coffee break   
    
15:00Departure Mols Bjerge  
    
16:00Arrival Aarhus  
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