Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the First Latin American Workshop on
Polychaetes, to be held at Centro de Biologia Marinha (CEBIMAR) from São
Paulo University, in São Sebastião (São Paulo, Brazil), from 3 to 13
July 2006. Besides the usual talks and posters, we will provide a course
on the foundations of phylogenetic systematics and probably a
post-workshop training course on polychaete systematics at basic levels.
CEBIMAR, one of the most traditional marine stations in Brazil, is an
ideal place for scientific meetings, due to its location and general
facilities. We expect up to 60-70 attendees and though we can not commit
ourselves to fund international travels, we will be able to provide
cheap accommodation and meals for about 25 participants. No registration
or any other fees are expected. Spoken languages will be Portuguese,
Spanish, French and English.
For further announcements, we will send messages to all Latin American
polychaetologists who attended our last international meetings and to
all those listed at the Polychaete Researchers Online at the Annelida
web page. However, if you are interested in attending this meeting and
feel you may not be reached through these lists, please get in contact
with ceamaral at unicamp.br <mailto:ceamaral at unicamp.br> AND lana at ufpr.br
<mailto:lana at ufpr.br>. A web page with further details will be
operational in about one week at http://www.ib.unicamp.br/ with links at
www.cem.ufpr.br <http://www.cem.ufpr.br/> and www.usp.br/cbm/.
Regards,
Cecília Amaral and Paulo Lana