Understanding pollen and spore diversity
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Understanding pollen and spore diversity
Linnean Society Palynology Specialist Group
The meeting aims to bring together researchers working on all aspects of pollen and spore diversity, including morphology, development, and the fossil record.
Programme:
10.00 Welcome Dianne Edwards, President of the Linnean Society of London
10.05 Variation in pollen size and tetrad configuration in Late Triassic Classopollis as a measure of polyploidy in Cheirolepidaceae Wolfram Kürschner, University of Oslo
10. 35 Morphology and wall ultrastructure of the megaspore Reticuspinotriletes ravenscariensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire, UK Sam Slater, University of Sheffield
11.05 Coffee and posters in the Library
11.30 Spore development in Isoetes Stephen Blackmore, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
12.00 Identification and characterisation of ß-1,3- and ß-1,4-glucanases essential for Arabidopsis pollen development Julia Tratt, University of Bath
12.30 “I get by with a little help from my friends”; nurse and companion cells in pollen development Hugh Dickinson, University of Oxford
13.00 Lunch (not provided)
14.15 Three palynological puzzles Bill Chaloner, Royal Holloway, University of London
14.45 Evolution and development of polyporate pollen at the angiosperm scale Charlotte Prieu, Université Paris Sud
15.15 Pollen melodies: Gunnar Erdtman, art, and palynology Anna Edlund, Lafayette College
15.45 Tea and posters in the Library
16.10 The global pattern across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass-extinction interval Vivi Vajda, University of Lund
16.40 Pollen counting for diverse tropical ecosystems Hayley Keen, The Open University
17.10Closing remarks, followed by a wine reception in the Library of the Linnean Society
This event is free open open to all but regsitration is required
Image above: transmission electron micrograph of a pollen grain of a passion flower, Passiflora capsularis (Passifloraceae)