Conveners Dr. Matt von Konrat (Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A.) Dr. Lars Söderström (Department of Biology, NTNU, Norway) Anders Hagborg (Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A.) Participants Dr. Elizabeth Brown (Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) elizabeth.brown@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au Dr. Barbara Crandall-Stotler (Southern Illinois University, Illinois, U.S.A) Dr. Nico Devos (Visiting Research fellow, Duke University, U.S.A.) Dr. Denise da Costa (Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Dr. John Engel (Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A.) Dr. David Glenny (Landcare Research, New Zealand) glennyd@landcareresearch.co.nz Dr. Bernard Goffinet (University of Connecticut, U.S.A.) Dr. Xiaolan He-Nygrèn (University of Helsinki, Finland); Dr. Anna Luiza Ilkiu-Borges (Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Coordenação de Botânica, Brazil). Dr. David Long (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland) Dr. Nadya Konstantinova (Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden, Kola Science Center, Russia) Dr. Laura Forrest (University of Connecticut, U.S.A.) Dr. Jon Shaw (Duke University, U.S.A.) Dr. Blanka Shaw (Duke University, U.S.A.) Dr. Ray Stotler (Southern Illinois University, Illinois, U.S.A) Dr. Barbara Thiers (New York Botanical Gardens, New York, U.S.A.) Dr.Tamás Pócs (Eszterházy College, Hungary) Dr. Matt Renner (Ecologist, Wildland Consultants Ltd, New Zealand) Dr. Elena Reiner-Drehwald (University of Göttingen, Germany) Dr. Jiří Váňa (Charles University, Department of Botany, Czech Republic) Dr. Li Zhang (The University of Hong Kong, China) zhangli@scib.ac.cn, zhangli@graduate.hku.hk Dr. Rui-Liang Zhu (East China Normal University, China) Invited students: Andrea Amália Sass-Gyarmati (Herbarium assistant and Curator of the Cryptogamic Herbarium, Eger, Hungary). lopho@tvn.hu Miss Lanping Zhou (The University of Hong Kong, China) Email correspondence to: Dr. Li Zhang (supervisor of Miss Lanping Zhou) zhangli@scib.ac.cn, zhangli@graduate.hku.hk Endymion Dante Cooper (Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) endymion.cooper@bio.usyd.edu.au Megan Ramaiya (Duke University, U.S.A.) megan.ramaiya@duke.edu Onsite guests Robert Lucking (PI, Botany Taxon Pages Project) rlucking@fieldmuseum.org Sharon Grant sgrant@fieldmuseum.org Encyclopedia of Life Cyndy Simms-Parr (EoL Species Sites Group) Richard Ree |