Programme

Draft timetable 

Registration will be 10am till 1pm on Monday 15th and the opening talks will commence at 2pm on this first day.

There will be two 'presentation free' afternoons on Wednesday 17th and Friday 19th when delegates will be given the opportunity of either joining local field excursions or attending a tour of our bryophyte herbarium.

	Monday 15th	Tuesday 16th	Wednesday 17th	Thursday 18th	Friday 19th
9-9.30	Registration 10-13	Tea & coffee	Tea & coffee	Tea & coffee	Tea & coffee
9.30-11.00		Paper session	Paper session	Paper session	Paper session
11-11.30		Tea & coffee	Tea & coffee	Tea & coffee	Tea & coffee
11.30-13.00		Paper session	Paper session	Paper session	Closing key note address and prize giving ceremony
13-14	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14-15.30	Welcome and housekeeping Plenary opening conference	Paper session	Local Field Excursion/visit to bryophyte herbarium	Paper session	Local Field Excursion/visit to bryophyte herbarium
15.30-16	Tea & coffee	Tea & coffee		Tea & coffee
16-18	Paper session	Paper session		Paper session
		Posters and wine reception		Conference dinner

The paper reading sessions will include the following major themes:

• Bryophyte phylogeny and systematics

• Museums, Botanic Gardens and Bryophyte Conservation in the 21st Century

• Bryophyte ecology and biogeography

• Bryophyte biology 

• Tropical bryology 

• Bryophytes and climate change