Workshops
A wide range of scientific and educational workshops will be presented during Botany 2015.
Please register for the workshops of your choice - you will receive ticket(s) in your registration packet on site.
Pre-registration is required for all as seating is limited. All registration fees are in US$
| Time | Title | Cost | Presented By: |
| Saturday July 25, 2015 | |||
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | WS 1 - Mycena identification workshop To be presented at the University of Alberta - more information as we get closer | $68.00 student and amatuers $100.00 Professionals (CA$) |
Roland Treu Mary Berbee |
| Sunday July 26, 2015 | |||
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | WS 2 - Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing | $40 | Aaron Liston
Shannon Straub |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | WS 3 - Ecological Niche Modeling: A Crash Course | Free | Pamela S. Soltis |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm |
WS 4 - Introduction to Botanical Drawing with Alice Tangerini |
$25 | Marilyn Garber |
| 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | WS 5 - Using online resources for creating checklists, floras, identification keys, and specimen citations | $10 | Mary E Barkworth Edward Gilbert David Baxter |
| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
WS 6 - We are All Plumbers Now: Toolboxes for Building Unconventional STEM Career Pipelines |
$10 | Lindsey K Tuominen |
| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
NEW - Just Added! WS 13 - Novel Molecular Tools from IDT for Plant Genotyping and Rare Allele Detection |
FREE | Robert Setter |
| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
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FREE |
Laura Wachtmann |
| 1:00 pm- 4:00 pm | WS 12 - Commercial Greenhouse Lighting: Techniques and Practicalities | FREE |
Ron Howard |
| 1:00 pm- 5:00 pm | WS 7 - Learning and evaluating alternative digitization workflows (i.e., changing "I know it can be done" to "I can do it") | $10 |
Mary E Barkworth
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| 1:00 pm- 5:00 pm | WS 8 - Planting Inquiry in Science Classrooms | $10 |
Catrina Adams
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| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
WS 8A - Crowd sourcing and citizen science: engaging the public in natural history collections digitization.
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Free |
George Weiblen |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
NEW - Just Added! WS 14 - MycoCosm Workshop |
$10 |
Joint Genome Institute, University of California |
| 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm New Time |
WS 9 - Professional Development Workshop: Graduate School, How to Apply and What to Expect | Free |
Ann K Sakai,
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| 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm | WS 10 - New Frontiers in RNA Analysis | $10 |
Jeffrey Seitz
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| 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm | WS 10A - Non-academic Botanical Career Panel | Free |
Susan Pell |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | WS 11 - Annual Meeting of the US Virtual Herbarium Project | Free |
Mary E Barkworth
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All registration fees are in $US
- Need a roommate to share expenses - use our roommate matching service
- Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Botany 2015. As of right now all students chosen to volunteer have been contacted. If you have any questions, please contact Kathryn Bornhoeft at kathryn@botany.org.
- Sign up for WS 9 - Professional Development Workshop: Graduate School, How to Apply and What to Expect
- Don't forget to sign up for TE 5 - Careers in Botany: Interactive Career Panel & Luncheon and TE 11 Student Social and Networking Event. Sign back into the registration site and add them in!
