15 & 16 September 2022, University of Basel, old town of Basel, Switzerland
International Symposium in honour of Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624)
Caspar Bauhin, (1560-1624) was the first professor of Botany at the University of Basel, and one of the most prominent plant systematists of his time, a forerunner of Linnaeus. He also founded one of the first University Botanical Gardens and collected a herbarium of thousands of plants that survives to today. He published his pioneering Flora of Basel „Catalogus Plantarum circa Basileam sponte nascentium“ exactly 400 years ago – one of the first comprehensive local floras. This international Symposium will trace 400 years back from the origin of local floras and botanical collections to their significance for present-day research in Evolution, Systematics, and Global Change.
Inspiring and show-casing herbarium-based scientific research, in the broadest sense, celebrating 400 years of Caspar Bauhin's pioneering Flora of Basel.
15 September 2022, 18:15h–appr. 19:15h, Bernoullianum, large lecture room, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 32, Basel
Prof. Richard B. Primack, Boston University: Climate change effects on wildflowers, trees and birds. Building on the observations of the famous American environmental philosopher Henry David Thoreau, author of «Walden». (Talk in English)
Sylvia Martinez
Dept of Environmental Sciences – Botany
University of Basel
Schönbeinstrasse 6
4056 Basel, Switzerland
University of Basel
Main building (Kollegienhaus)
Petersplatz 1
Lecture room 120 (1st floor)
4051 Basel – Switzerland
01 March 2022
Call for submission & registration
15 June 2022, extended to 03 July 2022
Abstract submissions (closed)
15 July 2022
Confirmation of contribution acceptance/rejection (completed)
After 15 August 2022
Registration remains open for late-registration
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