[BSW] FW: “What Darwin Couldn't Know: Modern Perspectives on Crop Plant Origins" - Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 17, 2019 - Washington DC

[KATHY BILTON]

>From Gary Krupnick via Robin Everly:

From: Krupnick, Gary
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 2:24 PM
To: Krupnick, Gary <KRUPNICK at si.edu>
Subject: “What Darwin Couldn't Know: Modern Perspectives on Crop Plant
Origins" - Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 17, 2019 - Washington DC

The National Museum of Natural History and the U.S. Botanic Garden have
begun accepting abstracts for poster presentations for the 17th Smithsonian
Botanical Symposium, " What Darwin Couldn't Know: Modern Perspectives on
Crop Plant Origins", which will be held May 17, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Poster abstracts must be submitted electronically to sbs at si.edu before 12
April 2019.

There is no registration fee to attend the Symposium, but attendees must
register online. Visit the website http://sbs19.eventbrite.com or send email
sbs at si.edu for more information.

For those attending the Symposium, the museum is hosting a behind-the-scenes
tour of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History. The Cullman
Library will have on display for browsing and discussion a wide selection of
stunning books highlighting Darwin’s publications, medical botany, Native
American plant use, and more. To sign up, please send an email message to
sbs at si.edu indicating which tour you would like to attend:

  *  Thursday, May 16 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  *  Thursday, May 16 at 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  *  Friday May 17 at 8:00 - 9:00 am

First come, first serve. Capacity for each tour is 20 people. Please meet at
the T. rex skull in the Constitution Ave. lobby at 5 minutes before the
scheduled time. A waiting list will be made to accommodate demand. RSVP by
Monday, May 13.

Note: The original title of the symposium, “Beneath their Notice:
Domestication of Useful Plants” has officially been changed to “What Darwin
Couldn't Know: Modern Perspectives on Crop Plant Origins.”


From: Krupnick, Gary
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 11:36 AM
Subject: "Beneath their Notice: Domestication of Useful Plants" -
Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 17, 2019 - Washington DC

Smithsonian Botanical Symposium

May 17, 2019

Washington, D.C.

http://sbs19.eventbrite.com
 

“Beneath their Notice: Domestication of Useful Plants”

Presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History,
Department of Botany

In collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden

The Department of Botany and the United States Botanic Garden will convene
the 2019 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, “Beneath their Notice:
Domestication of Useful Plants,” to be held at the National Museum of
Natural History in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2019.
 

Darwin was not only interested in Galapagos finches, but he also spent a
considerable amount of time experimenting and thinking about domestication
of animals and plants. He took a dim view of progress in understanding
domestication in the vegetable kingdom and wrote, “Botanists have generally
neglected cultivated varieties, as beneath their notice” (The Variation of
Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1868). This is no longer the case.
There is a resurgence of research focused on the plants most essential to
human life.

The 17th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium will highlight current research
into the domestication of crops and their wild relatives as well as
ornamental plants. Speakers will include archaeobotanists, botanists,
geneticists, and paleoethnobotanists utilizing molecular and genomic tools
unknown to Darwin.

There is no registration fee to attend the Symposium, but attendees must
register online.

Email sbs at si.edu for more information.

PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE

Friday, May 17
Morning Session - NMNH Baird Auditorium
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Invited papers

12:45 p.m. Lunch break

Afternoon Session - NMNH Baird Auditorium
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Invited papers and discussion

Evening Events - The United States Botanic Garden Conservatory
100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20001
6:30 p.m. Closing reception and poster session

 

Call for Posters

Abstracts for poster presentations may be emailed to sbs at si.edu. Poster
topics must be related to the study of archaeobotany and contain original
research. The deadline for abstract submission is April 12, 2019.