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PALYNOS http://www.geo.arizona.e ISSN 0256-1670 Volume 40 (2) – 2017 du/palynology/ifps.html NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF PALYNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES revealed in according International scientific journals, which shows the more than 100-yrs CONTENT OF PALYNOS VOL. 40 (2) 2017 old field of palynology to be still highly PAGE 1: IFPS BUSINESS innovative. PAGE 3: PRESENTATION OF NEW IFPS And looking forward, we plan to launch our COUNCILLORS new IFPS-Internet-Web-page in 2018, and are AGE OCIETIES EPORTS P 4: IFPS S ’ R therefore still looking for a palynologist PAGE 5: CONFERENCE ’ REPORTS experienced with web-pages to take over as PAGE 15: FUTURE MEETINGS IFPS Web-Master officer. In case you are interested, please contact the IFPS president PAGE 16: PALYNOLOGICAL HOMAGE (email below). PAGE 19: ANNOUNCEMENTS We wish you happy reading, and we hope to PAGE 22: CURRENT IFPS AFFILIATED meet you soon again at one of the upcoming SOCIETIES AND COUNCILLORS palynological conferences or meetings, and PAGE 23: IMPRESSUM the whole IFPS board hereby wishes you a palynologically successful year 2018 ! IFPS BUSINESS IFPS BOARD MESSAGE This current issue of PALYNOS contains a row of contributions from Europe, North America, Russia, and China, which all reveal our palynological field to be truely SEM-picture courtesy by J.N. Haas 1995 Intercontinental! Jean Nicolas Haas, IFPS President (2016-2020) Looking backwards, this year 2017 – inbet- Jean-Nicolas.Haas(at)uibk.ac.at ween the larger palynological conferences Charles Wellman, IFPS Past President such as IPC and EPPC – has brought a wealth C.Wellman(at)sheffield.ac.uk of smaler palynological conferences (see James B. Riding, Secretary-Treasurer jbri(at)bgs.ac.uk conference reports in this PALYNOS issue), Encarni Montoya, Editor of PALYNOS and several palynological publications as encarnacionmontoya(at)gmail.com 1 Personal presence at the 10th EPPC is a pre- IFPS STUDENT requisite, as awards will be presented at the FUNDING FOR THE 10TH conference only. Applications should arrive before March 1st, 2018. EUROPEAN PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY CONFE- RENCE (EPPC) IN DUBLIN, IRELAND, 12TH-17TH AUGUST IFPS STUDENT 2018 FUNDING FOR THE 5TH The International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS) will support student INTERNATIONAL participation at the upcoming 10th European Palaeobotany Palynology Conference PALAEONTOLOGICAL (EPPC) to be held in Dublin, Ireland 12th – 17th August 2018 (http://eppc2018.ie). CONGRESS (IPC5) IN PARIS, Funding will be awarded to Master and Ph.D. FRANCE, JULY 9TH - 13TH‚ students presenting palynological results at the 10th EPPC (oral or poster) and which are 2018 members of one of the IFPS affiliated societies. The International Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS) has agreed to support student participation at the upcoming 5th IPC to be held in Paris, France, July 9th – 13th, 2018 (see http://www.ipa-assoc.org/docs/First- Circular-of-IPC5.pdf). The IFPS board will review and evaluate all applications according to the quality of the submitted abstracts and the scientific merits of the candidates. Thus IFPS intends to sponsor up to 10 students with a 500 Euro contribution towards the cost of attending the conference. Students wishing to apply should e-mail Funding will be awarded to Master and Ph.D. (preferably as a pdf): students presenting palynological results at 1) a covering letter (no more than one the 5th IPC (oral or poster) and which are page, and explaining which IFPS affiliated members of one of the IFPS affiliated organisation the student is a member of, and societies. The IFPS board will review and the nature of their palynological contribution evaluate all applications according to the to the meeting), quality of the submitted abstracts and the 2) a short-CV (maximum one page) scientific merits of the candidates. Thus, IFPS 3) their talk/poster abstract intends to sponsor up to three students with a 500 Euro contribution towards the cost of Applications should be sent to IFPS attending the conference. Secretary-Treasurer James B. Riding (jbri(at)bgs.ac.uk). Students wishing to apply should e-mail (preferably as a pdf) 2 1) a covering letter (no more than one page, and explaining which IFPS affiliated organisation the student is a member of, and the nature of their palynological contribution to the meeting), 2) a short-CV (maximum one page) along with 3) their talk/poster abstract to James B. Riding (IFPS Secretary- Treasurer: jbri(at)bgs.ac.uk). Personal presence at the 5th IPC is a pre- requisite, as awards will be presented at the conference only. Applications should arrive before March 31st, 2018. PRESENTATION of She received the PhD in Biology from the NEW IFPS Complutense University of Madrid, getting the Prize to the Best Doctorate Thesis. She COUNCILLORS performed stays in the CNRS (Villejuif, France) and the Cold Spring Harbor PILAR S. TESTILLANO Laboratory (New York, USA). She has studied the physiology of microspore and Asociación de Palinólogos de Lengua pollen development in several horticultural Española, APLE and crop species, by using cell and molecular Pilar S. Testillano is Scientific Researcher of approaches. Her main research line is the the Spanish National Research Council analysis of the stress-induced microspore (CSIC) in the Biological Research Center reprogramming and totipotency to (CIB) of Madrid (Spain), where she is the embryogenesis, biotechnological in vitro head of the Pollen Biotechnology of Crop process of high interest in plant breeding of Plants laboratory. In September 2017 she has agrofood and forestry species for production been elected as new President of the Spanish of doubled-haploid plants, investigating the Society of Palynology, the “Asociación de key factors involved in this process, like Palinólogos de Lengua Española” (APLE). autophagy, programmed cell death, epigenetic From then, she is the new Councillor marks, phytohormones and cell wall, mainly representing APLE in the IFPS. by using techniques of in situ molecular identification, confocal and transmission electron microscopy, and modern bioimaging cell biology and molecular approaches. She has more than 100 publications in ISI peer- 3 reviewed journals, and 50 book chapters. PI memory. In total, more than 30 members of of various national and international projects, the commission participated in this meeting, appointed to evaluation committees of providing high quality and extremely interesting research on Paleozoic palynology. Spanish, European and American grant Seven student members were awarded travel agencies, and reviewer of numerous scientific grants to attend the meeting and all of them journals of Plant Sciences. In 2013 she presented excellent oral and poster organized the 2nd International APLE-APLF presentations. congress on “Pollen Biotechnology, Diversity Next year (2018), it will be an important year and Function in a Changing Environment” in for the CIMP. Book the following date in Madrid. your agendas - 12–17 August 2018 - which corresponds to the next EEPC Meeting in ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4509-7646. Dublin, Ireland. We will have several sessions dedicated to Paleozoic Palynology so, don’t forget to register. During this Website: meeting we will also have to elect a new http://www.cib.csic.es/research/environmenta board for the next four years. The next l-biology/pollen-biotechnology-crop-plants newsletters to be published on the commission website E-mail: testillano(at)cib.csic.es (http://cimp.weebly.com/newsletters.html) and sent out to all members, will have more information on the election procedure, including the candidates, so pay attention to your e-mail boxes in the next months! The CIMP is a group dedicated to Palaeozoic Palynology. Currently, more than 160 members are part of CIMP including IFPS SOCIETIES’ graduate, postgraduate students, as well as active and retired professionals. If you are REPORTS interested in knowing more about our group, and becoming a member of the CIMP, visit Commission Internationale our website for more information (http://cimp.weebly.com). de Microflore du Gilda Lopes (IFPS Councilor), Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Earth Science, Paléozoïque (CIMP) University of Bergen, Norway. Gilda.Lopes(at)uib.no Dear colleagues, We are pleased to briefly inform you about the commission’s past year ventures, and future meetings. In September 2017, we were part of the 50th Annual Anniversary Meeting of AASP – The Palynological Society, a joint meeting in which The Micropalaeontological Society (Palynology Group) was also involved. Five sessions were dedicated to Palaeozoic palynology, including a session supported by Saudi Aramco, and a special session dedicated to Gordon Wood’s 4 Figure 1. Emblem of the Russian Palynological CONFERENCE Commision. The main topics of the conference were REPORTS follows: • Cenozoic, Mezozoic, Palaeozoic and International Palynological Pre-Cambrian: stratigraphy, palaeogeography, sedimentation, environment and climate Conference “Actual evolution. problems of Palynology” in • Palynology as a tool for the broad- scale interregional correlation of marine and memory of V.P. Crichuk, terrestrial sediments, use of pollen data in stratigraphical schemes. June, 5-8, 2017, Moscow, • Methods of palaeoecology. New laboratory methods, innovation in sample Russia. preparations, new approaches in data The International Palynological Conference analysis. “Actual problems of Palynology” dedicated • Pollen biology, morphology and to the 110th anniversary of