Plenary Symposium

• Botany in the World’s Service

Organizer: Linda Graham, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Tele: 608.262.2640, E-mail: lkgraham@wisc.edu

Societal and Sectional Symposia

• Biology of Dryland Plants

Organizers: Frank W. Ewers, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Tele: 517.355.1111, E-mail ewers@msu.edu, and Jorge Lopez-Portillo, Instituto de Ecologia, Veracruz, Mexico. Tele: 228.421837, E-mail: lopez-p@ecologia.edu.mx

Sponsors: BSA Physiological, Ecological, Developmental & Structural, and Economic Botany Sections

• Comparative Chloroplast Genomics

Organizers: Robert K. Jansen, University of Texas, Austin, Tele: 512.471.8827, E-mail: jansen@mail.utexas.edu, and Linda A. Raubeson, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Tele: 509.963.2734, E-mail: raubeson@cwu.edu

Sponsors: ASPT and BSA Genetics and Systematics Sections

• Patterns and Mechanisms of Evolution of Island Plants

Organizer: Kaius Helenurm, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, Tele: 605.677.6174, E-mail: helenurm@usd.edu

Sponsors: BSA Genetics and Systematics Sections, and ASPT

• Dessication Tolerance in Bryophytes and Lichens

Organizer: Brent Mishler, University of California, Berkeley, Tele: 510.642.2465, E-mail: bmishler@socrates.berkeley.edu

Sponsors: ABLS and BSA Bryological and Lichenological Section

• Connecting People to Plants–Botanical Messages that Make a Difference

Organizers: Suzanne Koptur, Florida International University, Miami, Tele: 305.348.3103, E-mail: kopturs@fiu.edu and Lisa K. Wagner, South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University, Clemson, Tele: 864.656.3679, E-mail: lwagner@clemson.edu

Sponsors: BSA Ecological and Teaching Sections

• The Cross Timbers: Botany, History, and Current Issues

Organizer: Stanley Rice, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Tele: 580.745.2688, E-mail: srice@sosu.edu

Sponsors: BSA Ecological and Teaching Sections