Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy 2020

21st to 23rd September 2022

Cover of the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

SVPCA 2022 is being generously supported by The Palaeontological Association and The Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Programme at a glance

Wednesday 21st September

Morning – Workshop on phylogenetic comparative methods led by Natalie Cooper
Morning – SPPC talks and posters
Afternoon – Symposium: “Contributions of the British Fossil Record to Palaeobiology”
Afternoon – SPPC tours of the Conservation Centre

Thursday 22nd September

Morning – Oral sessions one and two
Afternoon – Oral session three and poster session
Evening – Auction at the Hand and Flower Pub, Olympia

Friday 23rd September

Morning – Oral sessions four and five
Afternoon – Oral sessions six and seven
Evening – Annual Dinner, Rembrandt Hotel, South Kensington

Saturday 24th September

Field trips to Crystal Palace Park accompanied by the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, and to Brookwood Cemetery, the geologists’ graveyard, with Alison Longbottom.

Partial hybrid

Oral sessions will be live-streamed via a Microsoft Teams Live Event, and online registrants will be able to interact by typing questions into a chat box which will be read out. If you registered for Online Only, You will be sent a Microsoft Teams link for each session. It will not be possible to present talks or posters virtually.

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Jones-Fenleigh Fund

The Jones-Fenleigh Fund provides travel grants for those with no other source of funding to attend SVPCA. Apply for the fund here.

The NHM last hosted SVPCA in 2005. This is what we all looked like back then. To find out more information about previous meetings, visit the SVPCA website

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