Off to Snowbird

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If all is going according to plan, this post will appear while I'm in the air between Chicago and Salt Lake City on my way to Botany & Mycology 2009. The American Bryological and Lichenological Society, American Fern Society, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the Botanical Society of America, and the Mycological Society of America are holding their annual meetings in Snowbird, Utah this year.

I'm going to be busier this year than last year. In addition to Monday afternoon talks by my post-doc, Jane Carlson, and by one of my graduate students, Rachel Prunier, on work growing out of my NSF-funded work on Protea section Exsertae, there's a Tuesday morning talk, by Rachel again, on another Protea project. I've seen practice versions of those talks, and they're really good. So if you're in Snowbird for the meetings and want to see some really good talks on some really cool plants, be sure to stop by.

But that's not all.
On Wednesday night I'll be presenting my address as BSA President. I'll post a copy of the PowerPoint here sometime Thursday or Friday, although they may not make a lot of sense without the running commentary. For that you'll have to wait until a copy of my address appears in the Plant Science Bulletin. For now you can puzzle over the abstract.

LDS: Botany in 2009.

Snowbird is in Utah, and if you mention the letters LDS to someone in Utah, they'll immediately know what you mean. But that's not what I mean. If you mentioned the letters LDS to a mycologist, they'd probably think you were dyslexic and referring to a compound isolated from Claviceps. I may be mildly dyslexic, but that's not what I mean either. A particle physicist might also think you were dyslexic and meant to refer to a detector used at the Stanford Linear Accelerator to study the polarized Z particles produced in collisions between electrons and positrons. That's not what I mean either.

If you want to find out what I mean by LDS and what it has to do with botany in 2009, you're just going to have to come to the banquet and suffer through my talk.


Related Links:
What LDS means in Utah
What LDS means to a mycologist (if you're mildly dyslexic)
What LDS means to a nuclear physicist (if you're mildly dyslexic)

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