Dr. Joseph Botting: Early sponges: phylogeny, diversity and the end-Ordovician Anji Biota

Dr. Shane Schoepfer: PTB in W N America and Open Panthalassic Ocean

Prof. Carl Brett: Taphonomy and Sequence Stratigraphy

Profs. Rachel Wood & Andrey Zhuravlev: Ediacaran skeletal animals

Dr. Florian Maderspacher: Publishing in interdisciplinary journal

Prof. Philip Donoghue: Workshop on new techniques in palaeobiology

Prof. David Ferguson: How to write a scientific paper and get it published

Dr. Piotr Krzywiec: New seismic data and basin evolution in Poland

Prof. Mikael Calner: The Lower Paleozoic succession of Baltoscandia

Prof. Ardadiusz Derkowski: Research and perspectives at IGS, PAS

Prof. Paul Taylor: Marine Palaeoecology Lecutures (8 talks)

Prof. Josef Psenicka: Plant anatomy and undergrowth palaeoecology of Lower Permian in situ volcanic ash beds from Wuda locality

Prof. Derek Siveter: Virtual fossils: The soft-bodied Silurian fauna of the Herefordshire (UK) Largerst？tte

Dr. Sibelle MAKSOUD: Holostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon

Prof. Dany AZAR: Lebanese amber: Latest news and discoveries