Dear colleagues,

it has been a while since the last visual group meeting in last summer. I’m sure that you have many exciting new results to share. 
To be able to organize a spring webinaire of our IUFRO group on Evolution and Adaptation of Fagaceae and Nothofagaceae, at the beginning of May, we are looking for a date that suits most members of the group. Due to the many bank holidays in May, this choice will be limited to dates between the 9^th and the 17^th of May. 

We propose to do a similar meeting with pre-recorded 20min talks so that participants can watch the talks before the actual meeting and then during the meeting, a short 5 min introduction to the talk, before time for questions and discussion.

We welcome very much presentations of recent publications, by PhD students, Post-docs or senior scientists. 

Especially, if you have any PhD students in your lab with a topic close to our group, please motivate him or her to either record a 20min talk, or to do a live 3-5 minutes talk about one experiment of their PhD.
Also, please contact me directly if you have new scientists in your group to add to the mailing list. 

In the following date survey you can pick your favourite dates as well as indicate if you would like to introduce a pre-recorded 20min talk or do a 3-5min presentation. If possible, also leave a comment with a preliminary title of your talk (or just some keywords about the species concerned, and your scientific discipline).

https://evento.renater.fr/survey/2-08-05-3rd-virtual-meeting-spring-2023-ya4rlhub

Please respond to this survey by the 21. February. 

As for the timing, we propose again a 2 hours meeting, and we will switch back to the timing of the first meeting : 

 12:00-14:00 GMT/UTC,  so early in the day for Americans (5-7 San Francisco, 7-9 Chicago, 9-11 Argentina), early afternoon for people in Europe (14-16 Paris CEST) and late  in the day for scientists in Asia (Tokyo 21-23)

You will be able to watch the 20min talks one week before the meeting on Youtube, which also means that the recorded talks should be available one week before the chosen meeting date.

We hope to see you all there, virtually

best regards

Oliver Brendel, Chuck Cannon & Keiko Kitamura