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58th Annual Systematics Symposium Missouri Botanical Garden 7-8 October 2011 With support from the National Science Foundation Trees The United Nations has declared 2011 to be the Year of the Tree Organizing committee: P. Mick Richardson and Amy Zanne Friday 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Informal mixer in Ridgway Center Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Talks in Ridgway Center Andrew Groover (USDA, Davis) What genes make a tree a tree? David Hibbett (Clark U.) Diversity and evolution of the wood-decay apparatus in saprotrophic Agaricomycotina (or: how mushrooms changed the world) David Kenfack (Harvard U.) Building a global earth observatory through a network of large-scale census forest plots Elisabeth Wheeler (NC State) Inside trees. 100 million years of wood structure Nathan J. B. Kraft (University of British Columbia) Traits, turnover and the mystery of tropical forest diversity Allison Miller (SLU) and Briana Gross (USDA, Fort Collins) Tree crop domestication Lawren Sack (UCLA) Leaf design: its evolution and impacts on ecosystem past, present and future Martin Gardner (RBG, Edinburgh) Evening speaker: Conservation of conifers Registration must be accompanied by a $50.00 registration fee, which also covers the cost of refreshments at the Friday mixer and lunch (but not dinner) on Saturday. The cost of the dinner on Saturday is an additional $50.00. Information on local hotels and motels will be available to registrants. No refunds will be granted after 24 September. There is no guarantee of food being available if you register after 24 September. Please use electronic registration and payment, at http://www.mobot.org/MBGSystematicsSymposium.   REGISTRATION ACCOMMODATIONS AWARDS PAST SYMPOSIA CONFERENCES