Lecture programme announced for 25th BOC Congress

25th British Orchid Congress at Writhlington School, 26 – 28 October 2012

Registration:
Joint £35, Single £25, Dinner £25, Science symposium and Saturday only £10
To register for the Congress, please visit www.wsbeorchids.org.uk/boc/register

Congress Lecture Programme
Congress lectures are free to registrants and cost £1 each for day visitors, except for beginners talks marked * that are free entry for all.

Saturday 27th October
11:00 – Steve Manning: Masdevallias and some other pleuros

12:00 – Jerry Fischer: Paphs and phrags culture

13:00 – Zoe Parfitt: Orchid growing for beginners*

14:00 – Mike Armstrong: The genus Cattleya

15:00 – Jeff Hutchings: Growing hardy orchids*

16:00 – Henry Oakeley: The medicinal properties of orchids

Sunday 28th October
11:00 – Johan Hermans: Recent orchid journeys around the world

12:00 – Richard Warren: Brazilian orchids

13:00 – Sara Rittershausen: Orchid growing for beginners*

14:00 – Jerry Fischer: Phragmipedium kovachii culture, hybridisation and history

15:00 – Zoe Barnes: Growing orchids the Writhlington way*



Orchid Conservation International Science SymposiumIn addition to the Congress lecture program, the OCI Science and Conservation Symposium on Saturday 27th October offers alternative lectures focused on current research into orchid science. There are four sessions each with two 20-25 minute talks. Registrants have free entry to these lectures, or day visitors can register for the Science symposium and Congress on Saturday for £10. Please visit http://wsbeorchids.org/boc/register

Saturday 27th October 

9.30 - Welcome address

9.45   - Luke Barnes: Changes in orchid diversity with altitude, and over time, in the Sikkim Himalayas

          - Saul Walker – Orchids in Oz: A search for Dendrobium in the bush

10.45 - Coffee

11.15 - Karen Robbirt: The orchid (Ophrys sphegodes) and the bee (Andrena nigroaenea); a tale of two phenologies

          - Brian Yap Jing Wei – The molecular phylogeny of Paphiopedilum section Barbata as inferred from low-copy nuclear gene and plastid sequences

12.15 - Dino Zelenika: Orchid discoveries, findings and environmental impact in a remote Balkan region

          - Odile Weber: Orchids in eMonocot – an online biodiversity resource

1.15 - Lunch

2.45 - Ian Parsons: Designing experiments with orchids

        - Helen Millner: Pollination in Restrepia, using SEM to unravel the mystery

3.45 - Closing remarks and coffee