Pakistan is the home of some of the world’s leading ecological regions due to immense variation in its wide latitude, spread from gigantic mountain peaks of Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Western Himalayas to the...
The European Cytogenetics Conference, this year #ECA2015 in Strasbourg, is a terrific meeting to hear the latest on chromosome research, with a strong focus on human research but lots that is important for plant and...
The way that we can address questions in genome evolution and expression has changed enormously in the last five years. We can get huge amounts of DNA sequence for any species for a budget within that of most labs. As...
This week guest author Charlie Haynes is AoB Blog’s roving reporter at the EPSO/FESPB plant biology Europe conference. At the FESPB/EPSO plant biology conference in Dublin I asked some of the delegates what inspired...
This week guest author Charlie Haynes is AoB Blog’s roving reporter at the EPSO/FESPB plant biology Europe conference. Hans Lambers is the Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia. He competed...
This week guest author Charlie Haynes is AoB Blog’s roving reporter at the EPSO/FESPB plant biology Europe conference. This post is his pre-conference manifesto. On the first day of the EPSO/FESPB plant...
The SpotOn science conference happened in London at the weekend. You may have missed it. I did, as London is a bit remote. Alan Cann asks how the online component of the conference can be built on for the next year.
I’ve been catching up with blog posts from Botany 2013. The Phytophactor has several posts on the subject, starting with Botanical Meetings – New Orleans. There’s a summary at No seeds, no fruits, no...
Anne Osterrieder is a Research and Science Communication Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Over the next few days I’ll be blogging from the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology. This year it takes...
Plants have always attracted human interest as evolving structures, Leonardo da Vinci’s studies on trees as an early example. Today not only intellectual curiosity but also increasing pressures on vegetation management...
Modelling of processes lets one understand the functions of interacting components, helps to identify parts of processes, and can predict outcomes of changes in the system. Unfortunately, what was a major area of...