Modern Taxonomy course programme 2010-2011

Registration has been closed for all courses of 2010-2011.

DEST announces, within the framework of EDIT, a number of theoretical courses for students, technicians and early career researchers involved in the field of taxonomy.

Primary objective of the programme is to provide future professionals with fundamental expert knowledge on basic taxonomy.

The course programme targets topics such as: nomenclature; describing, writing and illustrating biodiversity/species; collection conservation.
A limited number of EDIT grants is available.

The programme is open to trainees from Europe and outside of Europe.

Title	Place/Date	Teachers	Registration status
Zoological Nomenclature	Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid 30 July-1 August 2010 next training: end of 2011	Miguel Angel Alonso Zarazaga	closed
Conservation and Care of Natural History Collections photo gallery	Natural History Museum, London 11-15 October 2010	Lorraine Cornish Chris Collins	closed
Basics of taxonomy: describing, illustrating and writing biodiversity photo gallery report	Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, Kristineberg 8-19 November 2010	Matz Berggren Oliver Coleman Gabor Lövei Tomas Cedhagen	closed
Biological Nomenclature photo gallery	Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 8-12 November 2010	Alain Dubois	closed
Botanical Nomenclature	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 24-28 January 2011	Katherine Challis	closed
Phylogenetic Systematics and Molecular Dating	University of Copenhagen, Denmark 17-28 January 2011	Johan Nylander Niklas Wahlberg Gitte Petersen Ole Seberg Nikolaj Scharff Thomas Pape	closed
DNA-Barcoding course documents	Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 7-11 February 2011	Sarah Samadi coordinator	closed