Posted in News on Oct 13th, 2009
Chuck Cannon and Chai-Shian Kua attended the Conference Of Next Gen Sequencing 2009 (1st-3rd, Oct ) at the historical Casa Convalescencia of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona. This conference, with the aim to address challenges and oppurtunities presented by Next Gen Sequencing technology, has brought technological representatives and researchers together to interact [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 7th, 2009
The final symposium for the Advanced Fieldcourse in Ecology and Conservation in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens was held on August 6, 2009. Ten student groups presented their independent research projects, demonstrating a lot of hard work and improvement. Many of them tackled new topics and concepts, developed their own analyses and interpretations. They obviously [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2009
Science Magazine has a special section on Restoration Ecology this week and there are two feature articles about China and Southeast Asia. XTBG is highlighted several times. Read the “Addicted to Rubber” article here.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2009
China Daily had a special section in their newspaper about the garden. This link will take you to the page at XTBG’s website. You can directly get the PDF here.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009
A short article about living and working in the garden. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cityguide/2009-07/23/content_8464291.htm Interesting to see how fragments of what you say can be used for different purposes.
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Posted in Announcements on Jul 12th, 2009
The Advanced Fieldcourse in Ecology and Evolution started on July 9, 2009 in Kunming. All of the students arrived safely and the first night of registration and meeting went off smoothly. The course brings together advanced undergraduates and graduate students from many different universities and institutions in China plus international students from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, [...]
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Posted in Chuck's Blog on Jul 3rd, 2009
The AFEC-X is about to start! A crowd of students are converging on Kunming and then Menglun. I am going to try and forget about publishing and research for the course and just have fun with it. I haven’t taught in a while and find that I miss it. We’re going to try and live [...]
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Posted in News on Jun 30th, 2009
Chuck Cannon presented the results of his recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) entitled, “The current refugial rainforests of Sundaland are unrepresentative of their biogeographic past and highly vulnerable to disturbance” at the the 28th meeting of the Willi Hennig Society in Singapore. Dr. Cannon’s talk was part of [...]
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Posted in Chuck's Blog on Jun 30th, 2009
Okay, I have been debating whether I should post this or not but here goes. I have been involved with the DNA barcode idea through a series of strange events and communications, most of them from rather irrational proponents of the DNA barcode idea – including calling me a ‘reptile brain’. Hmm. Okay, sounds like [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Jun 21st, 2009
Prof. Cannon is lead author on a recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) that presents a spatially explicit model of rainforest distribution through the last million years in Sundaland. Sundaland is the ‘sub-continent’ of the major islands of Indonesia and Malaysia which were joined during previous ice ages but [...]
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Posted in Chuck's Blog on Jun 21st, 2009
In Singapore for a week – meetings mainly, see some friends – I mainly wanted to comment on how connected we all are and how much this has changed our lives. Modern life is incredibly different than it ever has been and the change is pervasive, not as if only a small fraction of the [...]
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Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 24th, 2009
Just a couple of direct quotes from Alfred Russel Wallace, which are found within a few pages of each other. They illustrate his wisdom and his outlook on life. discussing the king bird of paradise, one of the most remarkable birds in the world, with its elaborately beautiful tail feathers- “I thought of the long [...]
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Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 23rd, 2009
Almost finished re-reading ARW’s Malay Archipelago. I first read it over twenty years ago and I appreciate it much more now, after having visited many of the places he went and have done a wider variety of research. He is enormously impressive and his life and adventures exemplify the most noble and honest curiousity in [...]
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Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 23rd, 2009
Just finished Isaac Asimov’s “The Gods Themselves”. Bought it earlier this year in Malaysia at a used book store and read it cover to cover in just a few days. Asimov is a master at sci-fi, packing a great deal of imagination and creativity and scientific plausability into 300 pages of rather large text. He [...]
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Posted in Chuck's Blog on May 19th, 2009
A friend told me to get back to work on this blog, so here I am. It’s rainy season now. Rather suddenly last week, it started raining. It comes in great downpours. This morning at 5 AM, it started with a quick crescendo and continued heavily for about an hour. The rest of the day [...]
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Posted in News on May 19th, 2009
copied from http://en.xtbg.ac.cn/n614c46.aspx As part of implementing the scientific outlook on development, the People’s Government of Xishuangbanna held a special meeting to absorb advice and suggestions from XTBG on April 24. The meeting brought together about 100 officials and cadres from the local government to listen to reports made by Prof. Chen Jin, Prof. Chuck [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2009
Chuck Cannon gave a presentation on the “Comparative genomics of tropical trees: no assembly required” at a special workshop organized by the German Society for Genetics entitled, “Evolutionary Genetics – the impact of next-gen sequencing technology” held in Wittenberg, Germany from April 2-4, 2009. Prof. Cannon was also invited to be one of four panelists [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009
www.afec.ecologicalevolution.org Our international course will bring together advanced undergraduate and graduate students from the US, China and Southeast Asia for an intensive 4 week course in field research methods, research design, sampling and analysis. Full scholarships are being offered for suitable candidates from Southeast Asian countries. Format: The Advanced Field Ecology and Conservation-Xishuangbanna (AFEC-X) Course [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009
After the events of the 2009 ATBC conference concluded in ChinagMai, PhD student Kari Malen joined a tour of the Forest Landscape Restoration project led by Professor Stephen Elliot of Chiang Mai University. Ban Mae Sa Mai (a Hmong village) is the site of a collaborative program to restore forest by combining the research efforts [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2009
Chuck Cannon and Ferry Slik made met with several local officials and foreign consultants working in the newly formed Department of Forest Inspection in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Dr. Cannon talked about the use of DNA as a management and enforcement tool in the natural resource trade while Dr. Slik discussed the importance of accurate estimates [...]
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