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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Smithsonian Botanical Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><b><span style="color:black">May 17, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><b><a href="http://sbs19.eventbrite.com">http://sbs19.eventbrite.com</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">“</span></b><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#465F33">Beneath their Notice: Domestication of Useful Plants</span></strong><b><span style="color:black">”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">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” (<i>The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication</i>, 1868). This is no longer the case. There is a resurgence of research focused
on the plants most essential to human life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The 17<sup>th</sup> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i><span style="color:black">There is no registration fee to attend the Symposium, but attendees
<a href="http://sbs19.eventbrite.com/">must register online</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><i><span style="color:black">Email
<a href="mailto:sbs@si.edu">sbs@si.edu</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Friday, May 17</b><br>
<b>Morning Session - NMNH Baird Auditorium</b><br>
9:00 a.m. Registration<br>
9:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Invited papers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12:45 p.m. Lunch break <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Afternoon Session - NMNH Baird Auditorium</b><br>
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Invited papers and discussion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Evening Events - The United States Botanic Garden Conservatory
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</b>100 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20001<br>
6:30 p.m. Closing reception and poster session<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Posters<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Abstracts for poster presentations may be emailed to <u><a href="mailto:sbs@si.edu" target="_blank">sbs@si.edu</a></u>. Poster topics must be related to the study of archaeobotany and contain original research. The deadline for abstract
submission is April 12, 2019. <o:p></o:p></p>
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