Dear workshop participants and others--
At the TDWG (Biodiversity Info Standards) meeting next week in New Orleans, there will be a workshop on phylogenetic standards. The workshop page, with the schedule, is here:
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/Phylogenetics/MIAPAWorkshop2011
Like last year, this will be a quasi-OpenSpace meeting. The workshop opens Monday with 3 short talks to set the stage. Then participants are invited to discuss issues arising from the talks, and then to discuss possible projects. Monday will end with participants coalescing spontaneously into clusters (of about 3 to 7 people each) to work on a project they have designed. Tuesday is the work day-- clusters will work all day on projects, taking breaks as needed.
While this may not sound like much time, a cluster with clear goals can accomplish a lot in one day. One of the projects from last year turned into a larger study (manuscript in preparation) that you will hear about in my talk on Monday.
I'm going to send a separate message about project ideas.
Arlin ------- Arlin Stoltzfus (arlin@umd.edu) Fellow, IBBR; Adj. Assoc. Prof., UMCP; Research Biologist, NIST IBBR, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD tel: 240 314 6208; web: www.molevol.org