Past Meetings
The California Botanical Society
24th Graduate Student Meeting
Location: Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Call of Abstracts & Submission Guideline in pdf
We encourage current graduate students or recent recipients of a graduate degree to submit an abstract for inclusion in the 24th Graduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the California Botanical Society. Fifteen minute oral presentations are welcomed on any topic in the botanical sciences. Individual talks will be considered for prizes in the category of Proposed Research, Research in Progress, Completed Research, and Best Talk.
The Graduate Student Meeting of the California Botanical Society was first held in 1973, organized by graduate students for the purpose of presenting graduate student research on plants to our peers and the public. The Graduate Student Meeting followed from the tradition of presenting oral papers by members of the California Botanical Society at the Annual Dinner. Today these Graduate Student Meetings have become an opportunity to practice and develop oral presentation skills in front of an audience of our botanical grad student peers. The Graduate Student Meetings can be the first oral presentation for new graduate students and for others the last presentation prior to publication. These Graduate Student Meetings offer an opportunity to workshop research ideas, meet and learn from other graduate students, and conceptualize new research questions for future projects.
Abstracts for fifteen minute oral presentations should be submitted via email to the Graduate Student Representative Genevieve Walden gkwalden@gmail.com. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 February 2013 via email. Abstracts should be a succinct summary of your research project. The abstract should include the objectives of the study and why these are important, how the study was done, major results, and significance to larger questions. Abstracts will be included in the Centennial program. Please include Title, Name, academic affiliation and address with the abstract, and if you are in a master's or PhD program [or recently received your MS or PhD]. For additional information or questions please contact Genevieve Walden [gkwalden@gmail.com].
Following submission of the abstract we encourage graduate students to use the two months leading up to the 24th Graduate Student Meeting on 14 April 2013 to prepare manuscripts to support these oral presentations. We believe that comments, questions, and critical feedback from oral presentations at the Graduate Student Meeting of research projects will be helpful in revising manuscripts for publication. Use the time wisely!
We invite you to consider publishing your results in Madroño! The California Botanical Society publishes the peer-reviewed, scientific journal Madroño, the leading source of research articles on the natural history of western American botanical organisms (including those of Mexico, Central America, and South America). Submission guidelines for contributors and authors can be found online, as well as in the back cover of Madroño.
The California Botanical Society welcomes new and continuing student members! You do not have to be a member of the California Botanical Society to register and participate in the Graduate Student Meeting or Centennial events. Student members receive a subscription to the quarterly journal Madroño. Information about student membership can be found online and questions can be directed toKim Kersh, Membership Chair. Student membership is only $27 and can be purchased online.
The 24th Graduate Student Symposium will be held in conjunction with the California Botanical Society Centennial Celebration "Botanical Frontiers: Past and Future”, in Berkeley, CA 12-14 April 2013. The Graduate Student Meeting will be held on Sunday, 14 April 2013 in the Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley. Please join us to share your research, celebrate the California Botanical Society Centennial, and look ahead to future botanical discoveries. Registration information is available online.
Student ticket prices to all of the Centennial events have been subsidized by the California Botanical Society to encourage graduate students to participate fully in activities of the botanical community at this stage in our academic germination and growth. Online registration will be available until March 31st; late registration prices go into effect in April.
2013: University of California, Berkeley
2010: San Jose State University
2007: California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo
2005: San Francisco State University
Romberg Tiburon Center
2003: University of San Diego
2001: California State University, Chico
1999: California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo
1998: University of California, Berkeley
1996: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
1994: University of California, Davis
1992: San Francisco State University
1990: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
1988: San Jose State University
1987: University of California, Davis
1985: University of California, Santa Barbara
1984: California State University, Chico
1982: University of California, Los Angeles
1981: San Francisco State University
1980: University of California, Riverside
1978: California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo
1977: University of California, Berkeley
1976: University of California, Santa Barbara
1975: University of California, Davis
1973: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
