People
van Slageren, Michiel
| Job Title | International Co-ordinator |
|---|---|
| Department | Seed Conservation |
| Section | Millenium Seed Bank Project |
| Science Teams |
Drylands: Africa Millennium Seed Bank Project |
| Joined Kew | 1995 |
| Foreign Language(s) | Dutch (mother tongue), French, German, limited Arabic. |
Qualifications & Appointments
MSc, Univ. Utrecht, 1979
PhD, Univ. Utrecht, 1985.
Editorial Board, Kew Bulletin.
Role
Seed-collecting and initiating, negotiating and maintaining international collaborative projects for Millennium Seed Bank Project.
Kew seed-collector for Africa and Middle East since 1995 (23 expeditions during 1995-2000), subsequently International Co-ordinator for Africa from 1999. Negotiated first Access & Benefit-sharing agreement for MSB with Egypt in 2000 and, since 2001, likewise with Lebanon, Jordan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Northern Territory (Australia), Tasmania and Saudi Arabia. Responsibility for projects in Namibia and South Africa. Activities involve negotiating a mutually beneficial agreements between Kew and its partners, development of best practice during joint seed-collecting missions (on-the-job training of counterparts – 22 expeditions during 2001-05) and meeting an agreed species intake target on an annual basis, furthering ex situ seed banking infrastructure, and training and guidance for joint research work with relevant overseas personnel.
Contributed the species index for the proceedings of the 2001 workshop on seed conservation at the MSB.
Projects
Millennium Seed Bank Project in Jordan
Millennium Seed Bank Project in Lebanon
Millennium Seed Bank Project in Namibia
Millennium Seed Bank Project in South Africa
Millennium Seed Bank Project in Tasmania
Millennium Seed Bank Project in the Northern Territory of Australia
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Pollard, B.J., Tenner, C., Utteridge, T. & Van Slageren, M.W. (2003). Mountain biodiversity: a botanic garden’s experience. In Status and trends of, and threats to, mountain biodiversity and marine, coastal and inland water systems. Abstracts of poster presentations at the eighth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice on the Convention on Biological diversity. CBD Technical Series No. 8. Montreal, Canada: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Chapter 19. 50-51
Van Slageren, M.W. (2003). The Millennium Seed Bank: building partnerships in arid regions for the conservation of wild species. In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Conservation of Biodiversity in the Arid Regions, March 27-29, 2000, State of Kuwait. Journal of Arid Environments 54: 195-201.
Van Slageren, M.W. (2003). Species Index. In Smith, R.D., Dickie, J.B., Linington, S.H., Pritchard, H.W. & Probert, R.J. (eds) Seed Conservation: turning science into practice. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 994-1004.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Van Slageren, M.W. (1994). Wild wheats: a monograph of Aegilops L. and Amblyopyrum (Jaub. & Spach) Eig (Poaceae). ICARDA/Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 94(7). i-xiv, 1-512.
Scholz, H. & van Slageren, M.W. (1994). (1089) Proposal to conserve Aegilops caudata (Gramineae) with a conserved type. Taxon 43: 293-296.
Maxted, N., van Slageren, M.W. & Rihan, J. (1995). Ecogeographic surveys. In Guarino, L., Ramanatha Rao, V. & Reid, R. (eds) Collecting plant genetic diversity. Technical guidelines. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 255-285.
Manners, G.R. & van Slageren, M.W. (1998). Cereal taxonomy used in Rachis. Rachis 17 (1-2): 1-6.
Ferguson, M.E., Maxted, N., van Slageren, M.W. & Robertson, L.D. (2000). A re-assessment of the taxonomy of Lens Mill. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Vicieae). Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 133 (1): 41-59.