ICS 2008

Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium

Connecticut College
New London, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Week of June 23, 2008

We are pleased to announce that the Seventh International Chrysophyte Symposium was held during the week of June 23, 2008 at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, U.S.A. The three to four day symposium bought together experts from around the world representing a broad spectrum of disciplines. Although the overriding theme of the symposium focused on "chrysophytes" in a broad sense, there were significant contributions representing allied heterokont groups and an infusion of ideas from other fields.

In addition to regular paper sessions, we had four mini-symposia: paleolimnology/paleobiology, taste and odor problems in drinking water, heterokont phylogeny and use of geometric morphometric concepts in the study of algae. The symposium included several keynote speakers who work in peripheral areas to chrysophyte biology, allowing for a cross fertilization of ideas. Our goal was to provide a forum to advance the study of chrysophytes. There will be a Proceedings volume published by Cramer under the Nova Hedwigia Beiheft series.

As has been the case in the previous six symposia, we had non-concurrent sessions and foster an environment that allows significant opportunities for people to interact in small groups.  We took advantage of our local setting, including collecting opportunities in both freshwater and marine habitats, a traditional New England clambake and trips to Mystic Seaport and possibly a behind the scenes tour of the Peabody Museum at Yale University.

The organizing committee:

Peter Siver
(Department of Botany, Connecticut College, U.S.A.)

Anne Lizarralde
(Department of Botany, Connecticut College, U.S.A.)

Jim Wee
(Department of Biological Sciences, Loyola University, U.S.A.)

Robert Andersen
(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, U.S.A.)

Sue Watson
(National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Canada)

Christian Kamenik
(Institute of Plant Science, University of Bern, Switzerland)

Hwan SuYoon
(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, U.S.A.)

Last Modified: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 16:05