Breaking Isolation November 2021
The next Breaking Isolation online lectures will take place on November 19 – details here.
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Entries by Torsten Dikow
Breaking Isolation October 2021 event
The next Breaking Isolation online lectures will take place on October 21 – details here.
Curator of Seed Plants at BGBM Berlin
The Botanic Garden and Botanic Museum (BGBM), Freie Universität Berlin, is searching for a full-time, permanent position as a Curator for Seed Plants focusing on flowering plants. Details here. The deadline for sending application materials is October 18, 2021.
Breaking Isolation – monthly online lectures & conversations
The WHS is excited to announce a new format of online lectures & conversations. Beaking Isolation will take place monthly on the 2nd or 3rd Thursday and be open to all. More information here.
Plant systematist position at UC Berkeley
Plant Evolutionary Biology position as Director of the University and Jepson Herbaria at UC Berkeley to be filled. Closing date 8 November 2021. Details here.
Postdoc on gymnosperm genomics
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW POSITION IN PHYLOGENOMICS Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics School of Public Health SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available in Dr. Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis’ research group at the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, […]
Norman Platnick – 1951 – 2020
Norman I. Platnick passed away on 8 April 2020 after a tragic accident. Norm was a world-authority on spiders and prolific scientist, Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, an influential figure in phylogenetic theory, past president of the Willi Hennig Society, and a long-time member of the society. An obituary led by […]
HennigXXXIX postponed to 2021
The WHS annual meeting HennigXXXIX was scheduled to take place in Helsinki, Finland from July 26-30, 2020. Because of the world-wide Coronavirus pandemic, the Council made the decision to postpone our annual meeting one year. HennigXXXIX will take place July 25-29, 2021. Please check the meeting web-site (HennigXXXIX) for detailed information.
Hennig XXXIX web-site active
Annual meeting web-site for Hennig XXXIX in Helsinki, Finland from 26–30 July 2020 is now active. See helsinki.fi/hennigxxxix
Peter Hovenkamp – 1953–2019
Peter Hovenkamp passed away unexpectedly in July 2019. For a full obituary see here. Peter was an active, long-time member of the WHS, published 14 articles on Cladistics primarily in historical biogeography, served as Associate Editor of Cladistics from 2002 to 2004, and was the organizer of Hennig XIX in Leiden in 2000.