EDIT - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy -

The first call for applications for the EDIT “Expert-in-training programme” is now closed.

Training offers from the National Herbarium Netherlands were the most solicited by the applicants, followed by the “Cybertaxonomy” training offered by the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. In total 10 applications were submitted, 9 of them were approved by the EDIT Selection Committee.

EDIT awards grants to the following successful applicants:

National Herbarium Netherlands:

• Andrea Costa, CSIC, Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid “Advanced topics in phylogeny reconstruction”, 2 weeks
• Elvinger Nora: Université Libre de Bruxelles, “Advanced topics in phylogeny reconstruction”, 2 weeks
• Barnes Nathalie, Natural History Museum, London, “Advanced topics in phylogeny reconstruction”, 2 weeks
• Shao Qing, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, “Malesian plant families”, 3 weeks
• Câmara Paulo, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, USA, “Cryptogamic botany and Mycology”, 4 x 1 week
• Zapata Guardiola Rebeca, CSIC-Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, “Advanced topics in biogeography and spatial pattern analyses”, 2 weeks

Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren:

• Roca Ristol Pere, CSIC- Museo nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, “Cybertaxonomy and biodiversity information with special emphasis on collection management and geospatial related data”, 1 week
• Zapata Guardiola Rebeca, CSIC- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, “Cybertaxonomy and biodiversity information with special emphasis on collection management and geospatial related data”, 2 weeks
• McMonagle Laura, Natural History Museum, London, “Cybertaxonomy and biodiversity information with special emphasis on collection management and geospatial related data”, 2 weeks

Congratulations!