Our symposium is organized with the aim of allowing the debate about the uses and progresses in geometric morphometrics by any practitioner of the field. During the meeting the attendants will have the opportunity to present their own work, to enjoy numerous talks and discuss with other researchers. The principal aim of this meeting is to get all researchers interested in this technique together in order to open a window for discussion, help, and hopefully future collaborations.
In addition, an introductory course will be held the days previous to the conference (20‐21 July). The places will be limited and acceptance will be determined by strict pre‐inscription order. If you want to receive more information about this course and the pre‐inscription form, please contact us at this e‐mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Date: July 23rd‐25th 2009

Site: Sabadell (Barcelona

Sabadell is a one of the main cities of Catalonia, located at slightly more than 20 km to the north‐west
of Barcelona. It is easily accessible from Barcelona‐El Prat airport and is very
well connected to Barcelona by train and road. The conference will be held in
the Caixa d’Estalvis de Sabadell Auditorium, a beautiful modernista building of
1915 (C/ d´En Font Nº 1. Sabadell. 08201).

Provisional Program (All activities will be held in the Caixa d’Estalvis de Sabadell Auditorium)

Thursday July 23rd 2009

Friday July 24th 2009

Saturday July 25th 2009

Convenors

Soledad De Esteban Trivigno (Institut Català de Paleontologia)
Jesús Marugán Lobón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Markus Bastir (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC)

Organizing Committee

Scientific Committee

A proceedings volume of the congress will be published and will be available to the attendants to the meeting.

The deadline for contributors to submit an abstract is May 1st, 2009. Abstracts should be submitted in its electronic format to this e‐mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Author guidelines

The abstract should not exceed two pages (less than 1000 words, with references included). The main text should be written in Times New Roman at 11pp, double‐spaced and justified. Genera and species names must be in italics. The text must be preceded by the title, author(s) of the work and their affiliation(s) and contact address(es) using the following format:

Title: Must be in capital letters and centered and should not have more than 150 characters spaces included.
Author(s): Must be in lower case‐letters and centered.
Affiliation(s) and address(es): They should be numbered following authorship order and indicated next to the name of each author using a superindex. The center of affiliation and the address will be aligned to the left preceded by the number in brackets. Full postal addresses must be given for all authors. Next to the postal address the authors must include their contact e‐mail.
Example: (1) Institut Català de Paleontologia. C/ Escola Industrial, 23. 08201 Sabadell (Spain). This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
References: A reference list including all and only these references cited in the text must be included following the main text. Authors are encouraged to keep the references to a minimum. References must be prepared according to the following format:

1. Papers written by just one author [Ex. (Pérez, 2006)]; two authors [Ex. (Pérez & Martínez, 2006)]; three authors or more [Ex. (Pérez et al., 2006)].
2. References in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names, and chronologically per author. If an author's name in the list is also mentioned with co‐authors, the following order should be used: Publications of the single author, arranged according to publication year ‐ publications of the same author with one co‐author, arranged according to publication year ‐ publications of the author with more than one co‐author, arranged according to publication year. If two publications of one author of the same year are to be listed they should be arranged according to citation in the text and the year should include correlative letters according to this order [Ex. (Pérez, 2006a) ; (Pérez, 2006b].
3. The following system should be used for arranging references in the reference list:
   1. Journal papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of paper. Journal name (given in full or abbreviated using the International List of Periodical Title Word Abbreviations), volume number (issue number): first and last page numbers of the paper
   2. Monographs and books: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the monograph or book.
      Publisher, location of publisher.
   3. Edited volume papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the paper. Names and initials of the volume editors, title of the edited volume. Publisher, location of publisher, first and last page numbers of the paper.
   4. Conference proceedings papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the paper. Name of the conference. Publisher, location of publisher, first and last page numbers of the paper.
   5. Unpublished theses, reports, etc.: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the item. All other relevant information needed to identify the item (e.g., technical report, Ph.D. thesis, institute, etc.).

Figures: The author(s) may include one single figure, either a picture or graph. Black and white or grayscale figures should be sent in jpg. or tiff. format with a minimum resolution of 600 pp. Color figures are not allowed.
Tables: The author(s) may include one single table only if it is less than one page in length and the abstract does not contain any figure.

Arriving to Barcelona

From Barcelona to Sabadell:

Accommodations

Hotel Urpi ***

Hotel Arrahona***

Hotel Catalonia Sabadell ****