The next conference of our Section will be organised in Münster, Germany, in 2027 by Prof. Dr. Susann Wicke and Prof. Dr. Kai Müller. Prior to this date, some of our members will probably meet at the International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences, the Botanik-Tagung, which is scheduled to take place in Bochum, Germany, from 6th to 12th September 2026.
Some of the symposium’s participants came together in the entrance hall of the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS). Photo: Dr. Roland Gromes (COS)
This year’s meeting of our Section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology brought together early career researchers (ECRs) and experienced scientists. The more than 90 participants from four countries presented and discussed recent research results under the motto Frontiers in Plant Systematics and Evolution in Heidelberg at the End of August. Prof. Dr. Elvira Hörandl (Göttingen), reports on the highlights, the topics, informs, who of the ECRs received prizes for excellent research, and who was elected to be the new speaker of the Section.
The Section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology is the second largest in the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) and supports all fields of biodiversity research and evolutionary biology, which ranges from molecular systematics (phylogenomics, population genomics) to analysis of structure and function of plants and to the diversification in space and time. We use field work and biological collections and we interact with all disciplines of plant sciences and evolutionary biology.
The Section organizes a workshop every other year in alternation with the conferences of the Botanik-Tagung (International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences).
Archieves: former meetings of the Section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
Members will be informed about the activities of the sections, conferences, and jobs via the email newsletter of the society. The section has a membership fee of 10 Euros.
Prerequisite for a membership in the Section is a membership in the German Botanical Society (DBG). To become a member, please write an informal letter to the speaker of the Section.
At first the Section was founded nonofficially at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1971, named morphology, anatomy, and systematics. In September 1993 it got its first statutes. Most of the members voted for the current name of "Biodiversity and Eevolutionary Biology" in 1998. The present statutes were decided at the the conference at Jena on 21st September in 2000. In 2014 the section decided to introduce a fee for members at the members' assembly. At the Section's meeting in Gießen in 2023, members decided to award the prizes for the best posters and oral presentations at every meeting from now on. These will be named after Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717-1795), a German botanist (see also Wikipedia).
The Section set up its own statutes (German pdf).
Dr. Anze Zerdoner Calasan
Bavarian State Collections for Botany
Menzinger Str. 67
D-80638 München
Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0)89 17861 242
E-mail: zerdoner[at]snsb.de
Web: https://bsm.snsb.de/sektion-mitarbeiter/dr-anze-zerdoner-calasan/
Dr. Natalia Tkach
Institut für Biologie/Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Am Kirchtor 1
D-06108 Halle (Saale)
Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0)345 5526234
E-Mail: natalia.tkach[at]botanik.uni-halle.de
Web: https://www.botanik.uni-halle.de/systematik/natalia_tkach/
Dr. Tim Böhnert
Bonner Institut für Organismische Biologie (BIOB)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Meckenheimer Allee 170
D-53115 Bonn
Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0)228 73-7025
E-Mail: tboehnert[at]uni-bonn.de
Website: https://www.biologie.uni-bonn.de/biob/de/biob/biob_botanik/ag_weigend/dr-tim-boehnert
