Ecological Evolution Group 生态进化组
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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/
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, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2011
The ATBC Asia-Pacific chapter and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok will be hosting Experimental Design & Data Analysis and Scientific Paper Writing workshops in conjunction with the ATBC Bangkok 2011 meeting. The training is targeted at graduate entry-level students (MSc or 1st-2ndyr PhD) or equivalent-level researchers in government or non-governmental organisations. For further [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2011
The first workshop on the genomics of tropical biodiversity will be held in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. Please visit our training site for information about participating in this workshop – http://www.ecologicalevolution.org/training/ Genomics of Tropical Biodiversity (Working Session I) Time and Place : 2011 June 27 to July 1, XTBG, Menglun, Yunnan, China. 国际热带基因组会议, 2011年6月27日-7月1日 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2010
The Advanced Field-course in Ecology and Conservation – Xishuangbanna 2010 was officially opened on Nov 23 in the lecture hall in the new research facility at XTBG. The Executive Dean of Life Sciences at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Ding Wenjun offered his opening remarks and extended his support of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2010
In the October 29, 2010 issue of Science magazine, a group of twenty-five tropical biologists published a brief letter to the editor about the recent occurrence of a general fruiting event in the rainforests on the island of Borneo. The letter states the importance of these events to the future of forest restoration efforts in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2010
Dr. Chuck Cannon presented his work, “Comparative genomics of tropical trees using assembly-free techniques”, as part of the technical session “New technologies in ecosystem genomics” during the “Forest ecosystem genomics and adaptation” conference in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid), Spain held from June 9-11, 2010. The conference was organized by the EvolTree network, a [...]
Posted in Announcements, Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2010
XTBG has been granted a Visiting Professorship and a Young Scientist Fellowships by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, both to be hosted by the Ecological Evolution group. Prof. Manuel T. Lerdau from the University of Virginia and Dr. Jeremy A. Miller from National Museum of Natural History of the Netherlands have been recently granted the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2010
Prof. Chuck Cannon presented his work on the comparative genomics of tropical trees using next-gen sequencing technology at the joint conference of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations Working Parties 2.04.01 (Population, Ecological and Conservation Genetics) and 2.04.10 (Genomics) entitled “Sustainable Utilisation and Conservation of Forests in the Genomics Era”. He presented the plenary [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
