Report of the Annual Meeting of the Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL) and Planetary Biotic Inventories (PBI) Programs

March 10-12, 2006
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Approximately 115 Principal and Co-Principal Investigators funded through the National Science Foundation’s Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL) and Planetary Biotic Inventories (PBI) Programs assembled at Duke University for their annual meeting.

The meeting consisted of a series of short presentations on Friday, followed by morning and afternoon “break-out” sessions in which meeting participants divided into smaller focus groups to discuss particular issues. Following the break-out sessions the whole group reassembled, discussions from each session were summarized, and the floor was opened to questions, suggestions, and additional discussion.

The meeting program is presented below, with video recordings of session summaries and follow-up discussions.