Dear workshop participants and others--

Now is the time to start thinking about possible workshop projects, if you haven't done so already. You do NOT have to be a workshop participant to help in the process of developing and discussing ideas.

Please consider adding an idea on the "ideas" page here (you just need to get a TDWG twiki account):

http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/Phylogenetics/MIAPAWorkshop2011Ideas

The two ideas listed currently are:

* Create benchmark of annotated pubs relating phylogenies and biodiversity * Sharing the tree of life: What can we learn from the re-use (and lack of re-use) of mega-phylogenies?

I have cc'ed this message to the tdwg-phylo list and to some individuals who indicated their intention to participate. However, please address your replies only to the miapa-discuss list. Those who want to join in discussion will need to join the list.

On behalf of the workshop organizers (Jim Leebens-Mack, Hilmar Lapp, Nico Cellinese, Enrico Pontelli),

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