We met in conjunction with the Neobiota meeting September of 2008.

When: We started Sunday Sept. 21, and finished up Tuesday Sept. 23 in time for the afternoon start of Neobiota.  

Where: The Czech University of Life Sciences.  Here is a link to a google map showing the meeting venue, and the two main hotels (Wienna and Pension Jas).

Funding: As usual, we can not afford full reimbursement (particularly given the exchange rate!) but we can substantially offset the travel of U.S. participants (~USD 2,000 depending upon numbers of travelers).  We can not pay travel for international participants from what NSF considers 'developed' regions, but we can offset hotel costs, as per my earlier email.  We are able to support international participants from less developed regions more fully.

Agenda:

Sunday September 21
9:00    Greeting, meeting overview
9:10     Introductions/Lightning talks: 2 minutes per person
10:30   Break
11:00   Work in progress: Native vs. introduced demographic comparisons –John Parker, Mark Torchin, Ruth Hufbauer, Oliver Bossdorf (with work in progress)
11:30    Indirect effects and invasions – Bob Holt and others
12:00    Work in progress: Evolving the allee effect – Andrew Kanarek & Colleen Webb
12:30    Lunch on your own
2:00    Work in progress: Incorporating evolutionary dynamics into modeling efforts – Carol Lee, Kristina Schierenbeck, Bob Holt
2:30    Work in progress by members: Invasive grass database – Cini Brown and/or Sheryl Atkinson
3:00    Unconference planning/picking topics
3:15    Break
4:00    Afternoon unconference/ discussion

5:45   Meet at bus stop near university
6:30     Group Dinner downtown - www.hybernia.cz at 7 Hybernska street. Here is a map.

Monday September 22
9:00     Planning additional collaborative GIN research – research opportunities, collecting of samples, common gardens, survey data – Ruth Hufbauer
9:30    Overview of funded research exchanges – Vaughn, Baythavong (Hufbauer), Byers, Miller
10:15    Break
10:45    Work in progress: Testing RERH - Dana Blumenthal
11:00    Work in progress: Pathogen species richness over continents and centuries  - Charles Mitchell
11:30    Incorporating the landscape into invasion biology – Rieks van Klinken
12:00    Ideas for GIN RCN sponsored symposia; themes, organizers
12:30    Lunch on your own
2:00    Outreach opportunities
2:30    Unconference planning/picking topics
2:15    Afternoon unconference
3:30     Break
4:00    Afternoon unconference
5:00    Steering committee meeting

Tuesday September 23
8:30    Options for collection of field data
10:00  Comparison of native and introduced populations using data in the literature.
10:00  Indirect effects group
10:00  Evolution-ecology workshop planning
11:30  ESA symposium proposal planning (due Friday 25 Sept.)
12:00  Meeting wrap-up
1:00    Disperse for lunch and afternoon free-time
5:00    Neobiota Plenary