MORPH symposia

These meetings will include members of the laboratories of core participants as well faculty, students and postdoctorals associated with research programs in plant evolutionary developmental biology who are eligible to receive NSF funding from this Research Coordination Network grant.

The meetings will be held in conjunction with the following societies: the Botanical Society of America (organismic), the American Society of Plant Biologists (formerly the American Society of Plant Physiologists; cell and molecular), the Society for the Study of Evolution (evolutionary) and the Society for Developmental Biology (molecular developmental biology).

A final meeting, on the topic of Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology, will be organized under the auspices of the Keystone Symposia.

Upcoming meetings

Modularity in plants

This workshop will address the role of modularity in plant developmental evolution. Topics will include analyses of modularity as traditionally conceived as the basic repeating units of morphological evolution, and modularity as it has been circumscribed more recently, in terms of subsets of integrated developmental processes or cassettes.

Keystone meeting on plant evolutionary developmental biology

This meeting will function as a broad-based platform for promoting wide dissemination of recent advances in plant evo-devo and focusing the general community on the next phase of the growth of this discipline.

Past MORPH-sponsored symposia

2007: Seven separate MORPH-endorsed symposia at the BSA/ASPB 2007 Joint Congress

2006: The comparative-phylogenetic method of reconstructing evolutionary history

2005: Causes and consequences of floral developmental change

2004: Discerning homologies: gene expression, development, and morphology

Other MORPH meetings

2005: Botanical garden grants

2003: Preliminary meeting

Hosted by University of Colorado, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology