Aycan Tosunoglu

The Third International Symposium on “Biology of Rare and Endemic Plant Species (for shortBIORARE-2014) is organized and planned to be repeated every other years to share and to discuss recent developments and data on biology, conservation and evolution of rare and endemicplant species. The main goal is to bring senior scientists and students of the field in an informal, but rigorous discussion platform to stimulate future researches and collaborations on population biology, genetics and genomics, evolution-speciation, and conservation genetics of rare and endemic plants. Especially, it is essential for taxonomists and geneticistto get together and communicate with a common language of evolutionary biology so furtherinsights in speciation and evolution of rare and endemic plant species could be achieved. Thet BIORARE-2014 symposium has attracted diverse group ofresearchers from 20 countries including Turkey. Total of 49 oral presentations are going to be presented in the symposiumon April 20-23, 2014. Additionally, total of 58 diverse and interesting poster presentations will be available for the symposium participants to view. On behalf of organizing committee, I would like to welcome you all and wish you a productive meeting and good times in the Sunny Beaches of Antalya, Turkey.