FuturePhy, Call for Participation

Just got this via the email tubes:

FuturePhy is an NSF-sponsored, three-year program of conferences, workshops and hackathons on the Tree of Life. The project aims to promote novel, integrative data analyses and visualization, interdisciplinary syntheses of phylogenetic sciences, and cross-cutting uses of phylogenetics to develop and address new research questions and applications.

The first phase of this mission is critical: to bring together a broad community of people from diverse backgrounds who are active in phylogenetics research, who use the tree of life in research or education, who will benefit in applied or practical ways from a comprehensive tree of life, or who come from a background that offers new perspectives on defining, addressing or transcending key challenges in phylogenetics.

Help accelerate progress in all aspects of phylogenetics research by joining FuturePhy today. Diverse opportunities will be available to attend FuturePhy sessions in person or virtually, and to link FuturePhy to existing projects and initiatives.

We invite you to participate in the project in several ways:

1. Register on http://futurephy.org Scientists from all aspects of the phylogenetic sciences, educators, members of the tree-using community, and others interested in phylogenetics are welcome.

2. Contribute to the discussion forum on http://futurephy.org This is the best way to log your interest and contribute ideas.

3. See our main themes, comment on them and take the survey to rank them: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8CWXMRF

4. Email contact with ideas or comments

5. Tweet to the FuturePhy community: @FuturePhy

6. Comment in the FuturePhy thread on http://phylobabble.org

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

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