Meetings attended by PALMS researchers and students

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• EUNOPS XIII. May 11-13th, 2013, Aarhus, Denmark
  With participation from: Henrik Balslev, Anders Barfod, Finn Borchsenius, Jens Christian Svenning, Dennis Pedersen, Bill Baker, Max Weigend, Grischa Brokamp, Manuel Macia, Rodrigo Camara, Jean Christophe Pintaud, Renato Valencia, Maria Jose Sanin
  
  
• II Bolivian botanical congress held in La Paz (October, 2012) Co-organized by Monica Moraes from UMSA in La Paz
  Memorias from the congress
  

• Renato Valencia and Carolina Altamirano from PUCE presented results from WP6 (policy component) to people that use and commercialize NTFPs (and to the generel public), in a meeting organized by The Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment. The meeting was held in San Miguel de los Bancos (Northwest Pichincha) in Ecuador. June 25, 2012

  Meeting organized by the Ministry of Environment in Ecuador
  
  

• EUNOPS XII. May 12-13th, 2012 Sanremo, Italy
  With participation from: Anders Barfod, Dennis Pedersen, Bill Baker, Grischa Brokamp
  
  

• Grischa Brokamp gave a talk at the GfBS2012 Conference (13. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik) in Bonn at Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) February 23 - 25, 2012 Bonn, Germany
  The talk was entitled:

  Detecting adulteration and population differentiation by PCA and Cluster analysis with fatty acid composition data of Oenocarpus bataua (Arecaceae) mesocarp oil from NW South America.

  Link to Conference website
  WP4 talk as PDF
  
  

• XXI Scientific Meeting of the Research Institute for Biological Sciences (ICBAR),  2012 - Lima, Peru
  Selected abstracts:
  Machahua et al. 2012 ICBAR_PERU
  
  

• Max Weigend gave a talk at the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn; entitled "Palmito und Aguaje? Tausend Nutzen für neuweltliche Palmen." - January 11, 2012 Bonn, Germany
  Link to museum website
  
  

• Lucia de la Torre gave a talk at the "Bio trade towards a new development model in Ecuador” course in Quito. This course was organized by the Bio Trade GEF-CAF project, CORPEI and the Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador - November 22 - 23, 2011 Quito, Ecuador
  Presentation
  Presentation summary
  Bio trade brochure
  
  

• Max Weigend, Moritz Mittelbach and Grischa Brokamp (Bonn) gave a talk on: Neotropical Palm Products - Underutilised Ressources for Marginal Lands ... at the conference Tropentag (tropics day) - October 5 - 7, 2011 Bonn, Germany
  Conference website
  Abstract of oral presentation
  
  

• FUB will be represented by Grischa Brokamp in the Botaniker Tagung 2011 - September 18 - 23, 2011 Berlin, Germany
  Grischa gave a talk with the title: Trade in Palm products in northwestern South America – bad future prospects for sustainable resource extraction
  Link to talk
  Conference website
  
  

• Henrik Balslev participated in V Congreso Colombiano de Botanica - August 11 - 15, 2011 Cali, Colombia. He presented a paper entitled Palmas Americanas, Sistematica y Cambios Climaticos.
  Link to abstract (spanish)
  
  

• XX Scientific Meeting of the Research Institute for Biological Sciences (ICBAR),  2011 - Lima, Peru
  Selected abstracts:
  Marín et al. 2011 ICBAR_PERU
  
  

• Henrik Balslev was invited to speak at the Asia Pacific Science in the 21^st Century, Meeting the Challenges of Global Change. June 14 - 18, 2011: Sub theme: Global Change and Ecosystems entitled: Palms, Systematics and Climate.
  Official congress website
  Link to abstract
  
  

• EUNOPS XI. April 16 - 17, 2011 Komarov Botanical Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
  With participation from: Anders Barfod, Finn Borchsenius, Dennis Pedersen, Bill Baker, Grischa Brokamp
  
  

• Henrik Balslev participated in 5to Congreso Forestal de Cuba –Bosques para las Persona. April 27 - 29, 2011 Havana, Cuba. He gave a talk entitled: La importancia de Palmas en el oeste de la Cuenca Amazonica.
  Official congress website
  Link to abstract (spanish)
  
  

• Biosystematics Berlin 2011 - February 21 - 27, 2011 Berlin, Germany
  Grischa Brokamp presented a poster with the title: Native palm oils from NW South America - FA composition of Ecuadorian palm oils and a case study on commercially available mesocarp oil from Oenocarpus bataua (Arecaceae)
  FUB acceptance letter
  Official congress website
  Poster as PDF

  Image of Grischa Brokamp at BioSystematics 2011 in Berlin
  
  

• II Congreso Etnobiología en Recife - November, 2010 Recife, Brazil 
  Poster
  
  

• X Congreso Latinoamericano de Botanica - October 4-10, 2010 La Serena, Chile
  Official congress website
  Congreso Latinoamericano de Botanica - speakers
  Media report 
  

• 11th Congress of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, September 20-25, 2010 -  Albacete, Spain

  See Presentation
  
  

• XIII National Congress of Botany, September 20-25, 2010 - Lima, Peru
  XIII National Congress of Botany
  
  

• Stakeholders in the use and marketing of palm products in Ecuador, June 10, 2010 - Quito, Ecuador
  Stakeholder meeting w. Memoria
  
  

• XIX Scientific Meeting of the Research Institute for Biological Sciences (ICBAR),  August 26-27, 2010 - Lima, Peru
  XIX ICBAR SCIENTIFIC MEETING
  
  

• Green Week (Annual conference on European environment policy) - June 1-4, 2010 - Brussels, Belgium
  Official congress website
  
  

• Palms 2010 - May 5-7, 2010 - Montpellier, France 
  Official congress website
  Image Gallery
  Posters presented by FP7-PALMS participants
  
  

• Workshop on Quantification of Ecosystem Function: Challenges and Benefits - January 28-29, 2010 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Quantification of Ecosystem Function: Challenges and Benefits
  
  

• EU Southeast Asia Expert Meeting on Conservation and Management of Biodiversity - January 25-27, 2010  Hanoi, Vietnam 
  Official congress website
  
  

• First Bolivian botanical congress, October 2009 - Cochabamba, Bolivia
  First Bolivian botanical congress
  
  

• Eunops IX - April 25-26, 2009 Kew, UK
  Official congress website