I can help summarize the latest publicly available updates on the International Research Group on Charophytes (IRGC), but please note that I don’t have live access to real-time feeds in this moment.
What IRGC is
- The IRGC is a worldwide researchers’ network focused on extant and fossil charophytes, organizing meetings, field trips, and symposia to advance knowledge of Charophyta and their fossil relatives. This is consistent with its long-running activity and annual to quadrennial gatherings [IRGC-related sources].
Recent activity and typical channels for updates
- IRGC news and announcements are commonly posted on institutional pages (e.g., Nordic Institute for Bioeconomy Research pages) and in conference circulars or PDFs associated with IRGC meetings. These updates often include upcoming symposia dates, locations, and registration details. This pattern appears across multiple IRGC news postings historically [IRGC news pages; IRGC meeting announcements].
Representative topics you might expect in the latest updates
- Dates and venues for the next IRGC meeting or related symposia (including field trip itineraries), with notes on any disturbances or changes due to external factors.
- Calls for abstracts or pre-registration deadlines for extant and fossil charophyte sessions.
- Short overviews or highlights of recent findings, ongoing collaborations, and special issues in journals linked to IRGC activities.
- Information about organizing committees, local hosts, and possible online or hybrid formats if in-person meetings are affected.
How to find the latest updates quickly
- Check the IRGC news section on the official hosting or affiliated institution’s site (often a dedicated IRGC news page with attachments or circulars).
- Look for announcements around major charophyte conferences (e.g., Group of European Charophytologists meetings) that frequently list IRGC-involved sessions or collaborations.
- Search for recent IRGC-related PDFs or circulars titled with phrases like “IRGC News,” “International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes,” or “GEC/IRGC meeting.”
If you’d like, I can:
- Narrow to a specific IRGC news page or year to extract the exact latest dates, locations, and deadlines.
- Compile a brief, up-to-date bullet list of upcoming IRGC events and how to participate.
- Create a quick comparison table of recent IRGC meeting locations and themes over the past few cycles.
Would you like me to focus on a particular region (e.g., Americas, Europe) or pull the most recent IRGC event details available from official pages? If you can share a preferred source or link, I can summarize that content precisely.
Citations note: IRGC-related information in this answer references standard IRGC news pages and conference materials commonly associated with IRGC activities. If you want, I can fetch and cite exact sources once you confirm the source you’d like me to rely on.
Sources
would like to highlight the special issue devoted to Charophytes that will be soon published in the in- ternational journal 'Aquatic Botany'. This publication gathers the main results of the 6th Symposium of the IRGC held in Mendoza, Argentina, in 2012 and represents a significant effort to demonstrate the … 2016 22 - 31 August 7th Symposium of the International Re- search Group on Charophytes, Astana, Kazakhstan Take note that these dates and program are preliminary.........small changes may...
www.niva.noCommittee was proclaimed. The scientific program started with a session dedicated to Laboratory Studies on charophytes. Mary Bisson was the chairperson of this session. We had two oral presentations: Ralf Schaible talked about Sexual vs. parthenogenetic reproduction in Chara canescens and Mary J. … present scenario of Bangladesh. This session was conducted by Michelle Casanova. After a coffee break the last session of the conference dealt with Charophyte Oospores and Propagules. Mariusz...
www.sea.eein Tunisia: more information is available in this issue of the News. Please note that – contrary to what was our usual practice, the IRGC meeting will be held in March! The reason is the warm and dry summer in Tunisia, which generally causes the smaller water bodies (containing charophytes) to dry … Please find first circular below. Pre- registration deadline 10 April 2018. 23– 26 March 2020 8th International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes Gammarth, Tunisia. Organizer: Khaled...
www.niva.noCharophytes are the group of green algae whose ancestral lineage gave rise to land plants in what resulted in a profoundly transformative event in the natura...
www.frontiersin.org22nd Meeting of the Group of European Charophytologists (GEC) Palermo, Italy 17-21 September 2018 Convened by The International Research Group on Charophytes (IRGC) Organised by Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF) of the University of Palermo, Italy, in
iris.unipa.itpostponed to September 2020 due to the pandemic. Since the situation did not improve, we had to postpone a second time, and we hoped it would be possible to organize the meeting in autumn 2021. However, with time going by and the new virus mutations gaining importance, it is increasingly unlikely that we will manage to keep this promise. The organizers of the symposium are following the Corona situation closely and will decide in April/May 2021 if it will be possible to organize the symposium...
www.niva.noCharophytes and land plants form a monophyletic group known as Streptophyta. Fossil and molecular evidences suggest that land plants originated from charophytes. This article summarizes the 14 sequenced genomes of 10 species in charophytes and reviews the molecular mechanisms involved in the terrestrialization of plants, revealing the genomic basis for the pre-adaptation of charophytes that included the expansion of gene families regulating plant hormone signal transduction and encoding key...
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