VIII International Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference
October 25th to 27th, 2023
Club del Río Hotel in the town of San Ignacio, Misiones, Argentina.
The Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste cordially invites you to participate in the VIII International Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference, to be held from October 25th to 27th, 2023, at the Club del Río Hotel in the town of San Ignacio, Misiones, Argentina.
Address: Colonia Teyu Cuare, zip code 3322, N3322, San Ignacio, Misiones.
The conference program will consist of three days of presentations, followed by an one-day excursion to explore the landscapes and flora of Misiones.
We believe that the assistance to the conference is an excellent opportunity to share our results with colleagues and friends in a serene setting located in the town of San Ignacio, Misiones, Argentina. This event will provide an opportunity for constructive debates, exchanging original ideas, and initiating or enhancing international collaboration.
A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE CONFERENCES
The I International Rubiaceae Conference was held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, USA, in 1993. It brought together students of Paleotropical and Neotropical groups for the first time. Selected proceedings from the conference were published in 1995 in the Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (volume 82, issue 3, pp. 355–439). At the time, the inclusion of Rubiaceae in Gentianales vs. in its own order, Rubiales, was not fully resolved so this was a Rubiaceae meeting. The people who created this Rubiaceae conference idea and got it organized into an event were Peter Raven and Doug Stevens (Charlotte Taylor, personal communication).
Poster image provided by Missouri Botanical Garden, Charlotte Taylor, Roy Gereau, and Tammy Charron
Front to back, left to right: Charlotte Taylor, Vivian Negrón, Katarina Andreason, Howard Reynolds, Birgitta Bremer, Irene Shonle, Shu-Miaw Chaw, Amy Faivre, Leila Macias, Shunzaku Suzuki, Diane Bridson, Jennifer Richards, Christopher Puttock, Christiam Puff, Helga Ochoterena, John Dwyer, David Lorence, Molly Nepokroeff, Stella Maris Pire, Elsa Cabral, Nélida Bacigalupo, Sigrid Jung Mendaçolli, Hiroshi Tobe, Lennart Andersson, Johann Rova, Colin Ridsdale, John Beaman, Elmar Robbrecht, Alessandro Natali, Iain Miller, Michael Kiehn, Joseph Kirkbride, Attila Borhidi, Paul Foster, Claes Gustafsson, Dylon Hannon, Claes Persson, Simon Malcomber, R. Mitchell Beauchamp, Tim McDowell, Steve Manning, Steve Darwin, Ivan Schanzer, Piero Delprete, Tao Carl Chen.
Photograph by Missouri Botanical Garden
Photograph by Elsa Cabral
Photograph by Elsa Cabral
Photographs by Elsa Cabral
Program of events - By Missouri Botanical Garden, 1993
The II International Rubiaceae Conference was held at the National Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium, in 1995. The conference focused on Rubiaceae as part of the Gentianales and the delimitation of its subfamilies, as well as problematic tribal and generic complexes. The full proceedings of the conference were published in 1996 in the Opera Botanica Belgica (volume 7, pp. 1–432). A decade elapsed before the next conference, which took place in 2005 with a half-day symposium on Rubiaceae organized during the XVII International Botanical Congress in Vienna. The symposium highlighted the growing interest in the subject and need for a more extensive meeting.
The full proceedings of the conference were published in 1996 in the Opera Botanica Belgica (volume 7, pp. 1–432).
The III International Rubiaceae Conference was co-organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the National Botanic Garden of Belgium held in Leuven, Belgium, from September 18th to 21st, 2006. The conference aimed to provide a platform for Rubiaceae and Gentianales researchers to present their findings from the decade following the second conference and to facilitate discussions and networking opportunities. Six themes were scheduled for the conference, including systematics at the family, subfamily, and tribal levels, biogeography of Rubiaceae, studies of other members of the Gentianales and the order as a whole, studies of specific genera, and Rubiaceae checklists. Additionally, two keynote lectures were delivered, which explored distinct but interconnected topics (De Block et al., 2006, 2009).
The IV International Rubiaceae (Gentianales) Conference was held in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, from October 19th to 24th, 2008. The meeting was organized by the Instituto de Biología and the Instituto de Ecología A.C., both associated with the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM).
The V International Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference took place in Stockholm, Sweden, from September 6th to 10th, 2010. It was organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Stockholm University.
Shared by Sylvain Razafimandimbison
A. Davis, S. Raza, Tatyana, Olivier, Joann
The VI International Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference (VI Conferência Internacional de Rubiaceae e Gentianales) was held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, October from 19th to 22nd, 2014. The conference was organized by a team of researchers from several universities, including the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (PB), Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (BA), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (SP), and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (RN).
Salvador 2014, The Group
The VII International Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from September 11th to 14th, 2017. It was organized by the Statens Naturhistoriske Museum. During this conference, the Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste (IBONE) was selected to organize the next event. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic and some local economic difficulties, we have decided to organize the VIII International Rubiaceae and Gentianales Conference, after almost five years since the last meeting.
Copenhagen, 2017 - The Group
Charlotte Taylor
Elmar Robbrecht
Nice moments in Copenhagen, 2017
ORGANIZERS
Main Organizers:
Roberto Salas
Hector Keller
Mariela Nuñez Florentin
Javier E. Florentín
Organizers committee from Rubiaceae and Apocynaceae group:
Ana María Gonzalez, Walter A. Medina, Laila M. Miguel, Andrea A. Cabaña Fader, Sandra V. Sobrado, João A. Martins do Carmo, Marina D. Judkevich, María Florencia Romero, Silvana Gauto, Renata Nicora Chequín, Florencia B. Aguirre Arbo, and Felipe Menéndez.
Collaborators from IBONE's taxonomy staff:
Betiana Angulo, Maria de las Mercedes Sosa, Gelina Pieszko, Débora Olmedo, Sandra Olmedo, Laura Simón, Silvia Romero, Andrea Michlig, Soledad Jímenez.
Website designer, Webmaster and collaborators
Federico Agostini
Dario Villegas
Roberto Salas
Javier Elías Florentín
Abstract publication in Bonplandia:
Carolina Peichoto and Mariela Nuñez Florentín (Bonplandia's staff)
Scientific committee:
Mary Endress, Institute of Systematic Botany, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sylvain Razafimandimbison, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden.
Charlotte Taylor, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA.
Birgitta Bremer, Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden.
Elsa L. Cabral, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, UNNE, Argentina.
Maria Regina de V. Barbosa, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, PB, Brazil.
Alessandro Rapini, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil.
André Simões and Ingrid Koch, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Elnatan Bezerra de Souza, Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Sobral, CE, Brazil.
Carla Maldonado Goyzueta, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia.
ABOUT OUR INSTITUTION
The Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste (IBONE) is a research institute devoted to basic and applied research in Botany. It was founded in December 1977 through an agreement between the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET) and the National University of the Northeast (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, UNNE).
Numerous researchers, technicians, and grantees perform their activities within the facilities of our institute. Diverse scientific and technological researches are carried out and human resources are trained to become highly qualified in fields such as Taxonomy, Cytogenetics and Evolution, Anatomy, Grass Genetics, Plant Physiology, and Biotechnology and Functional Genomics. Additionally, we offer services and assistance to individuals, private businesses, or public organizations in each of these areas.
The IBONE, located in Argentina’s northeast region, aims at providing technical and scientific expertise and services in order to understand the regional biodiversity, conduct environmental baseline surveys and promote sustainable product development not only in the region but throughout the country.
Historical Background of our Institute
The IBONE is based in Sargento Cabral university campus of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) in Corrientes, Argentina. Antonio Krapovickas, B.A.E. (Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering), founder and first director of IBONE, arrived in the city along with his wife Dr. Carmen L. Cristóbal, in 1964. Both Krapovickas and Cristóbal were faculty members at the Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria (School of Agronomy and Veterinary) and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (School of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences). Their exceptional performance and scientific background earned them recognition in the academic field and attracted the most distinguished students, to whom they transmitted their keenness on botany. Those students became their first coworkers, whose number and specializations increased substantially over time.
Over time, the number of researchers, grantees, and technical staff increased greatly, and the areas of Cytogenetics and Evolution, Anatomy and, more recently, Applied Biotechnology and Functional Genetics were strengthened. IBONE’s six areas were thus outlined. Physically, they occupy four adjacent buildings and some laboratories belonging to Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias (School of Agrarian Sciences), apart from greenhouses and different sections for general services.
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ABOUT CTES HERBARIUM
In 1965, IBONE established its Herbarium, which is now known as CTES. The Herbarium occupies a 434-square-meter area divided into two levels and contains around 500,000 samples of vascular plants, which are mounted on numbered poster boards, along with 30,000 lichen samples and 8,000 fungal samples. The samples are arranged in 232 metal herbarium cabinets. Notably, IBONE's Lichen collection is the largest of its kind in the country. Over the past eight years, the collection has grown by an average of 7,000 samples annually.
Samples are currently undergoing a digitization process; digitized samples can be checked at: http://ibone.unne.edu.ar/herbariovirtual/
The personal collection of Eng. Krapovickas was the basis of the herbarium, to which other important collections were added later. Some of these collections belonged to Mr. Augusto Schulz, Eng. Romeo Carnevalli, and Dr. Troels Myndel Pedersen. The vascular plant collection is particularly rich in families such as Poaceae, Asteraceae, Leguminosae, Malvaceae, Rubiaceae, Sapindaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Turneraceae, which have been the subject of research by many IBONE professionals. These families are represented by material from the herbarium's own collections as well as samples donated for identification. The herbarium also houses a collection of 1,100 type specimens, as well as around 1,200 paratypes, which have been digitized and made available for study at plants.jstor.org as part of the Latin American Plant Initiative (LAPI) project. Additionally, the specimens are accessible for study through CTES Virtual Herbarium and the National System of Biological Data (Sistema Nacional de Datos Biológicos - SNDB). The Herbarium's collection is particularly rich in material from northern Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil.
The institution loans herbarium materials to various Argentinian and foreign institutions, with an average of 900 samples per year being loaned during the last decade. The Herbarium also maintains an exchange program, which has enabled it to acquire valuable samples from different parts of the world. Such a program started in 1969 with the shipment of duplicates to herbaria in Argentina, Australia, and other American and European countries. Furthermore, re-creating European species often allows for interpreting terminology and concepts stated in classic works, and for identifying weeds and invasive species.
The CTES Herbarium was named after “Dra. Carmen L. Cristóbal” (1932-2019) on March 22nd, 2013, a well-earned recognition of its first curator. At the same time, the first and second floors of the building were named in honor of “Dr. Augusto G. Schulz” (1899-1992) and “Dr. Troels N. Pedersen” (1916-2000), respectively.
Current herbarium authorities include Dra. Miryam Carolina Peichoto, curator; Dr. Orlando F. Popoff (cryptogams) and Dr. Roberto Manuel Salas (vascular plants), vice-curators.
ORGANIZED AND INVITED BY THE INSTITUTE OF BOTANY OF THE NORTHEAST - UNNE CONICET
The primary goal of the seven previous conferences was to foster a respectful environment where all participants could share their research and receive constructive feedback. We value the opportunity to be heard by our fellow researchers and look forward to continuing the generous spirit that has characterized previous conferences.