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2010 Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom Controlled Environment Users' Group (UK CEUG)

(Second and final announcement May 2010)

Theme: Controlled Environments for Conservation – from Genotype to Ecosystem

Book by 16th July 2010 to to avoid £20 late booking fee (see below under “Bookings”)

Dates:

 

Monday 6th – Tuesday 7th September 2010

Places:

 

1) University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QG, UK

2) Millennium Seed Bank Project, Wakehurst Place, Nr Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TN, UK

Organised by:

 

United Kingdom Controlled Environment Users' Group (UK CEUG)

Organisers:

 

Dr. Martyn Stenning, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QG, UK (e-mail; <m.j.stenning@sussex.ac.uk>)

Mr Keith Manger, Millennium Seed Bank Project, Wakehurst Place, Nr Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TN, UK (email; <k.manger@kew.org>)

Bookings: The booking form and detailed programme are available as a pdf document

Enquiries to
Martyn Stenning, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9QG, UK
Tel: 00 44 (0)1582 763133 x 2690
E-Mail: m.j.stenning@sussex.ac.uk 

Programme:

 

1. Scientific meeting at the University of Sussex (one half day – Monday afternoon)

Theme: Controlled Environments for Conservation – from Genotype to Ecosystem

Topics:

  1. The use of controlled environments to keep seeds alive for future generations. Speaker: R. Probert (Millennium Seed Bank Project, Wakehurst Place).
  2. The use of controlled environments for storing plant genes for the future. Speaker: O. Westengen (Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway)
  3. The use of controlled environments for animal conservation. Speaker: P. Pearce-Kelly (Royal Zoological Society, London).
  4. The use of controlled environments for experiments on vertebrates. Speaker: K. Salvante (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada).
  5. A new generation of ecotrons for experiments on ecosystems. Speaker: J. Roy (CNRS, Montpellier).

2. Business meeting at the University of Sussex (Monday evening)

3. Visit to controlled environment facilities at the Millennium Seed Bank Project (one half day – Tuesday morning)

Organiser of 3:

Mr Keith Manger, Millennium Seed Bank Project, Wakehurst Place, Nr Ardingly, West Sussex, RH17 6TN, UK (email; <k.manger@kew.org>)

 

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