[PCA] "Beneath their Notice: Domestication of Useful Plants" - Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, May 17, 2019 - Washington DC

[Krupnick, Gary]

Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
May 17, 2019
Washington, D.C.
http://sbs19.eventbrite.com

"Beneath their Notice: Domestication of Useful Plants"
Presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
In collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden

The Department of Botany and the United States Botanic Garden will convene the 2019 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, "Beneath their Notice: Domestication of Useful Plants," to be held at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2019.

Darwin was not only interested in Galapagos finches, but he also spent a considerable amount of time experimenting and thinking about domestication of animals and plants. He took a dim view of progress in understanding domestication in the vegetable kingdom and wrote, "Botanists have generally neglected cultivated varieties, as beneath their notice" (The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1868). This is no longer the case. There is a resurgence of research focused on the plants most essential to human life.

The 17th Smithsonian Botanical Symposium will highlight current research into the domestication of crops and their wild relatives as well as ornamental plants. Speakers will include archaeobotanists, botanists, geneticists, and paleoethnobotanists utilizing molecular and genomic tools unknown to Darwin.

There is no registration fee to attend the Symposium, but attendees must register online<http://sbs19.eventbrite.com/>.
Email sbs at si.edu<mailto:sbs at si.edu> for more information.

PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
Friday, May 17
Morning Session - NMNH Baird Auditorium
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Invited papers
12:45 p.m. Lunch break
Afternoon Session - NMNH Baird Auditorium
2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Invited papers and discussion
Evening Events - The United States Botanic Garden Conservatory
100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20001
6:30 p.m. Closing reception and poster session

Call for Posters
Abstracts for poster presentations may be emailed to sbs at si.edu<mailto:sbs at si.edu>. Poster topics must be related to the study of archaeobotany and contain original research. The deadline for abstract submission is April 12, 2019.

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