IAPT Grants
IBC Travel Support 2024
During 2024, the IAPT provided grants to support student and postdoc attendance to the International Botanical Congress, to be held in Madrid between 21-27 July 2024.
118 applications were received for funding and 18 were granted in 2024. Thank you to all who applied.
Everyone was awarded with the same amount of USD 1,000.
The following applications were selected for funding.
Poster: Similar but not the same: floral and Inflorescence ontogeny in the Adesmia clade (Dalbergieae, Leguminosae)
Talk: Updates in systematics studies in the Adesmia clade (Dalbergieae)
Thiago Cobra e Monteiro
Applicant:
UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista
Brazil
Pollinator-mediated frequency-dependent selection of floral colour polymorphism in a nocturnally pollinated ginger from Western Ghats, India
Saket Shrotri
Applicant:
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
India
A synopsis of the genus Sonerila Roxb. (Melastomataceae: Sonerileae) in India
Resmi S
Applicant:
Botanical Survey of India
India
Where mating is overrated: Understanding the evolution and ecology of asexual reproduction in a tropical understory herb
Ritu Yadav
Applicant:
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
India
Geneflow and genetic divergence in insular populations: a case study from Andaman and Nicobar archipelago
Sarath P
Applicant:
Kerala Forest Research Institute
India
Exploring morphological variation in three related species of Solanum sect. Petota ser. Commersoniana and ser. Tuberosa (Solanaceae)
Rodrigo Nicolao
Applicant:
Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Brazil
Exploring ecological strategies in the five bean domesticated species (Phaseolus spp.)
Diego Emilio Dávila Navarro
Applicant:
Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
México
Four or more? Integrative species delimitation of the African daisy complex Dimorphotheca pluvialis-sinuata using genotyping-by-sequencing data
Thaabiet Parker
Applicant:
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Comparative palynology of Spigelia spp. (Loganiaceae) endemic to Brazil: new insights into its outstanding morphodiversity
Occurrence of Waltheria glabribracteata (Malvaceae) in Colombia...
Arthur Macedo Rocha
Applicant:
Botanic Garden of the University of Coimbra, Portugal & Museu Nacional - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Portugal/Brazil
Building a global online multi-access identification key to the mega-diverse and economically important genus Solanum
Rebecca Hilgenhof
Applicant:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Scotland
Abstract I: Genome and chromosome size evolution on the Cyphomandra clade (Solanaceae): architecture of the genome
Abstract II Repetitive DNA in the Cyphomandra clade (Solanum, Solanaceae)
Mariela Analía Sader
Applicant:
IMBIV-CONICET (Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal)
Argentina
Explaining altitude adaptation of Toniniopsis separabilis and its apparent association with symbiotic cyanobacteria
Julia V. Gerasimova
Applicant:
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
Germany
Overcoming liquid nitrogen dependency: development of an affordable modified DNA extraction protocol for dried plant specimens.
Renerio P. Gentallan Jr.
Applicant:
Insitute of Crop Science, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños.
Philippines
Flora of the forgotten forests: inventorying the Marañón dry forest in Perú
Paúl Henry Gonzáles Arce
Applicant:
Universad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Peru
Conservation challenges and priorities for Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) in the Philippines
Adriane Bueno Tobias
Applicant:
University of the Philippines Los Banos
Philippines
Diversity, distribution, systematics, and conservation status of Podocarpaceae
Raees Khan
Applicant:
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council National Herbarium, PGRI, NARC
Pakistan
Applications of spatial phylogenetic to unravel biodiversity patterns and evolutionary history of the Himalayan flora
Saddam Saqib
Applicant:
Lanzhou University, Gansu, China
China
General dynamic model of oceanic island biogeography predicts early diversification dynamics of a highly successful insular plant taxon
Jay Edneil Olivar
Applicant:
Leipzig University
Germany