Federation of European
Biological Systematic Societies

International Congress on Systemtatic and Evolutionary Biology - Biosystematics Berlin 2011 coming up

The first joint European conference took place from August 11–14, 2009 in Leiden, the Netherlands, hosted by the National Herbarium of the Netherlands and the National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis).

On 14 August 2009 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed

Goals

BioSyst EU aims to provide a European platform to:

• hold joint meetings on a regular basis;

• promote research, teaching, and training in all areas of systematic biology, including phylogenetic, taxonomic, and biodiversity research;

• encourage collaboration and interchange among researchers, both individually and through their respective societies and institutions;

• coordinate national and international efforts without infringing on the autonomy of the member societies;

• encourage formation of additional national systematic societies, while continuing to represent systematists in countries still lacking formal societies;

• increase the profile and funding of systematic biology in the European parliament.

Current member societies

• Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (Germany)

• Network of Biological Systematics Austria (Austria)

• Société Française de Systématique (France)

• Swiss Systematics Society (Switzerland)

• The Systematics Association (UK)

Contact: Regine Jahn

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Berlin · 28. April 2010