Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2012
Dr. Cannon will participate in an informative webinar on the topic of using flow cytometry to measure genome size entitled: “Using Flow Cytometry to Speed Determination of Eukaryotic Genome Sizes and Cell Type-Specific Gene Expression” Broadcast Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Time: 1:00 pm EST, 10:00 am PST REGISTRATION IS FREE http://www.genengnews.com/webinars/using-flow-cytometry-to-speed-determination-of-eukaryotic-genome-sizes-and-cell-type-specific-ge/151/
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2011
A new species of stone oak (Lithocarpus pulongtauensis) has recently been published by the Annales Botanici Fennici. The species is named in honor of the recently gazetted protected area in the Kelabit Highlands, the Pulong Tau National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. This species has been collected on the northern slopes of Mt. Kinabalu, where Dr. Cannon [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2011
Zhai Deli’s study of land use change in the Changhua watershed on the island of Hainan was recently published in the Journal of Environmental Management. The article is entitled “Rubber and pulp plantations represent a double threat to Hainan’s natural tropical forests” and the work was completed with the following co-authors: Charles H. Cannon, J.W. Ferry Slik, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2011
AFEC-X 2011 has started! On Oct 22, 25 participants from 12 countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, USA, DPR Korea, and of course China) arrived in XTBG. Deputy Director of XTBG, Dr Li Qingjun, gave a welcome address and introduction to XTBG at the course opening. Participants will spend [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2011
A wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) of the titles and abstracts from most of my publications. Cool!
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 6th, 2011
Melissa Wong, a PhD student from the National University of Malaysia and co-advised by Prof. Cannon and Prof. Wickneswari Ratnam, joined the Ecological Evolution group in 2009 for several months to learn bioinformatic techniques for analyzing next-gen sequencing techniques. Ms. Wong conducted her study on the whole transcriptome sequence from two parental species of Acacia [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2011
On Aug. 12, 2011, Dr. Cannon presented the achievements of the Ecological Evolution group over the first four years of its existence to an academic committee of 11 colleagues. The committee approved of the group’s efforts and agreed to continue XTBG’s support, including adding an additional staff member as a reward for our success! Thanks [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2011
Several faculty and students from XTBG attended the IBC 2011 meeting in Melbourne, Australia. Drs. Cannon and Slik presented in a special symposium on “Historical biogeography of Malesia and its effects on current patterns of plant diversity”. The International Botanical Congress is held every six years and is one of the biggest botanical meetings in [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2011
Dr. Ferry Slik, formerly of the Ecological Evolution group and now leading the Plant Geography group at XTBG, has published an analysis of 111 floristic inventory plots across the Sundaland region in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. The major findings indicate that the marked biogeographic difference between western (Malay Peninsula and [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2011
After a brief chat with Dr. Jacob Wickham at the Beijing meeting for Foreign Experts, Dr. Lerdau drafted a response to a recent article in Nature about invasive species. The article generated a great deal of response from the conservation community and Nature published three separate letters in response to the controversial article. These three [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2011
Dr. Yann Surget-Groba, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Visiting Foreign Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He will join the Ecological Evolution group in March, 2012. He will be assisting the group to develop lab-based and bioinformatic techniques to study the genomic [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 3rd, 2011
WTBG@XTBG 2011 was a great start to an exciting new era in tropical biodiversity research in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The workshop was organized into a series of excellent research talks presented by leading scientists and participants. Several working groups focused on transcriptomics, comparative genomics, reference-free analysis, and the detection of selective elements. The [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2011
The world travelling fungi photographer, Taylor Lockwood, was spotted in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China, last week. Even though he was happily minding his own business, his fame caught up with him even in this remote place. Prof. Cannon had the privilege of seeing one of Taylor’s presentations back in graduate school while [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2011
Drs. Lerdau and Cannon attended the Chinese Academy of Sciences meeting for Foreign Experts on June 9-10, 2011 in Beijing at the Friendship Palace. The meeting brought together the Senior and Junior Foreign Expert Fellows from across all of the CAS institutes. Dr. Lerdau gave a short presentation about his work and the two joined [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2011
Mr. Liu’s paper has just been published on the Advanced Access page of the Forestry journal. Enjoy! http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent Liu Song and Charles H. Cannon Impact of socio-economic status on the implementation of China’s collective forest tenure reform in Zhang Guying Township, Hunan: potential for increasing disparity
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2011
Liu Song successfully defended his MSc thesis entitled “Collective forest tenure reform in Yueyang County: familiarity, satisfaction and action”. Members of the defense committee included Cao Min (chair), Ma Youxin, Doug Schaeffer, Xu Jianchu, and Doug Schmidt-Vogt. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2011
Dr. Hotlin Ompusunggu received a Whitley Fund for Nature Award on behalf of the Health in Harmony program and for major contributions in co-founding the Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) organization. On the southern border of the Gunung Palung National Park, ASRI has established an innovative program to help subsidise rural health care through conservation activities. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2011
Through the hard work of the Program for Field Studies, the Advanced Fieldcourse in Ecology and Conservation at Xishuangbanna has received accreditation from the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for 2 hours of credit. This is great news and will allow students to receive course credits for enrolling in our program! Thanks [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 5th, 2011
Join us in our third year! This year, the course will run for six weeks to provide students with a better opportunity to conduct research and participate in group projects. Registration is now open. Please visit the link below for more information: http://www.pfs-tropasia.org/courses/afec-x-china-2011/
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2011
Ms. Fan Huan has been accepted to participate in the OIST Summer School and Workshop in “Quantitative Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics” at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technolog (http://www.oist.jp/qecg2011/doku.php). The aim of the OIST Summer School and Workshop “Quantitative Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics” is to provide opportunities for young researchers with quantitative interests, skills, [...]
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